Girls in Masquerade

2019 ◽  
pp. 150-172
Author(s):  
Jing Jing Chang
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
The Real ◽  
Patriarchal Family ◽  
Female Workers ◽  
Celebrity Culture ◽  
Focusing Lens

Chapter 6 examines the localization of screening community during Hong Kong’s 1960s industrial modernization. It examines the intersections among gendered labor, the Chinese patriarchal family, celebrity culture and fandom, through films starring 1960s idols, Connie Chan Po-chu and Josephine Siao Fong-fong. While fandom and celebrity culture were created by the real demographics of an increasing number of female workers who became Connie’s and Josephine’s fans, their viewership became discursive sites that contributed to the constructions of a gendered community both within and outside of traditional Confucian familial hierarchies. My analysis of films such as Her Tender Love ((Langru chunri feng, dir. Lui Kei, 1969) and Teddy Girls (Fenü zhengzhuan, dir. Lung Kong, 1969) demonstrates that masquerade not only becomes a point of identification for fans, but also a focusing lens for the convergence of seemingly conflicted experiences of teddy girls and factory girls. As much as they embodied the contradictions of urban industrial modernization, factory girls and teddy girls (both on- and off-screen) and their experiences constructed youth fandom as a discursive site for the creative imagining of freedom and empowerment. And both contributed to making and screening of the industrializing and modernizing city that was 1960s Hong Kong.

Starring Women

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara E. Lampert
Keyword(s):  
Gender Ideology ◽  
Family Structures ◽  
Atlantic Seaboard ◽  
Patriarchal Family ◽  
Celebrity Culture ◽  
Public Figures ◽  
White Middle Class ◽  
Women's Lives ◽  
Women And Girls ◽  
And Gender

Star actresses and dancers were among the most publicly visible, celebrated, and often polarizing female public figures in the early United States. This book examines the careers and celebrity of the women and girls from Europe and America whose fame drove the growth and transformation of theater between 1790 and 1850 from the Atlantic seaboard to the trans-Appalachian West. Starring women introduced new repertoire—melodramas, breeches roles, dance pantomime and ballet—that catalyzed debates about social ownership of American culture, regional and national identity, and women’s place in public life. This book transforms existing understandings of early U.S. theater and culture by examining a broad cohort of understudied figures and argues that women stars were vital to the development of transatlantic and U.S. entertainment, celebrity culture, and gender ideology. Most significantly, starring women lived and performed the tensions and contradictions of changing nineteenth-century gender roles. As this book demonstrates, even while they achieved unprecedented levels of wealth and prominence through the “starring system,” the patriarchal family structures that governed women’s lives and careers conditioned their participation in the industry. The celebrity culture that expanded from the 1820s demanded that starring women conform to new standards of sentimental domestic femininity, even as the structural realities of their lives defied such standards. Starring women were exceptional figures who mapped the margins of a narrowing white middle-class domestic ideal.

Human Capital Enhancement through Education and Immigration

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yue Chim Richard Wong
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Hong Kong ◽  
Population Aging ◽  
Postwar Period ◽  
Working Population ◽  
The Real ◽  
Real Population ◽  
Readiness To Adopt ◽  
The City ◽  
Education And Immigration

The chapter points out that to meet Hong Kong’s population challenge in the next three decades, it urgently needs to implement human capital enhancement policies. Its future as an international metropolis is under severe challenge because of the aging of its population. The failure to replenish itspopulation numbers with university-educated talents, especially in the working population, is very worrying. Hong Kong’s population aging problem is particularly seriousImmigrants who came in the postwar period were the foundation of Hong Kong’s success, and they enriched the life of the city. The city must shed the insular mentality that is emerging today if it is to avoid the fate of becoming a capitalist museum by the end of this century. The real population challenge for Hong Kong lies in our readiness to adopt and implement policies that are necessary to shaping the city’s future.

The real-world use of regorafenib for metastatic colorectal cancer: multicentre analysis of treatment pattern and outcomes in Hong Kong

2016 ◽  
Vol 93 (1101) ◽  
pp. 395-400 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ka-On Lam ◽  
Kin-Chung Lee ◽  
Joanne Chiu ◽  
Victor Ho-Fun Lee ◽  
Roland Leung ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Colorectal Cancer ◽  
Hong Kong ◽  
Metastatic Colorectal Cancer ◽  
Real World ◽  
Treatment Pattern ◽  
The Real

scholarly journals PENDIDIKAN KEAGAMAAN PADA KOMUNITAS MUSLIM INDONESIA DI HONG KONG

2016 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rudy Harisyah Alam
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Religious Education ◽  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Educational Service ◽  
Religious Groups ◽  
Literature Study ◽  
Female Workers ◽  
Bargaining Position ◽  
The Government ◽  
Data Collection Technique

This writing is a result of research on Religious Education of Indonesia Moslem Community in Hong Kong,to find out which institutions and whatcharacteristics become providers of the religious education for Indonesian Moslem community in Hong Kong. This research uses explorativequalitative approach by data collection technique through a combination between individual and group interview technique, field observation, as well as document and literature study. The result of this study shows: firstly, almost a half of the Moslem community in Hong Kong is Indonesian Moslem community, they are generally come from migrant workers in non-formal sectors (such as maid) which in social, political and economicalaspect they have a weak bargaining position in their life in Hong Kong. Secondly, the Indonesian Moslem Community in Hong Kong generallyconsists of female workers and they are not allowed taking their children or family with them, their immediate needs are guidance and educational service on religion for their own needs in the form of a non-formal religion educational service. The need on education and religion are obtainedby establishing religious groups, associations or organizations which in general are not registered as an official organization in the Government of Hong Kong. Thirdly, they regularly strive to meet their needs on religious guidance and education by holding a routine group religious guidance heldSundays, as the day is holiday which in general is granted to the majority of Indonesian workers.tulisan ini merupakan hasil penelitian tentang Pendidikan Keagamaan pada Komunitas Muslim Indonsesia di Hong Kong, yang bertujuan untuk mengetahui institusi-institusi dan karakteristik apa yang menjadi penyedialayanan pendidikan keagamaan komunitas muslim Indonesia di Hongkong. Penelitian ini menggunakan pendekatan kualitatif-eksploratif dengan teknik pengumpulan data melalui mengombinasikan teknik wawancara individualdan kelompok, observasi lapangan, serta studi dokumen dan literatur. Hasil setudi ini ditemukan antara lain: pertama, hampir separuh dari komunitas muslim di Hong Kong adalah kaum muslim Indonesia, umumnya mereka berasal dari kalangan pekerja migran pada sektor non formal (pembantu rumah tangga) yang secara sosial, politik dan ekonomi tidak memiliki daya tawar yang kuat dalam kehidupan di negara Hong Kong. Kedua, Komunitas muslim Indonesia di Hong Kong umumnya adalah pekerja wanita dan tidak diperkenankan membawa anak atau keluarga, kebutuhan mendesak yang mereka hadapi adalah layanan bimbingan dan pendidikan agama bagi diri  mereka sendiri, berupa layanan pendidikan keagamaan non-formal. Kebutuhanpendidikan dan keagamaan diperoleh dengan cara membentuk kelompok, perkumpulan atau organisasi keagamaan yang umumnya tidak terdaftar  sebagai organisasi resmi pada pemerintah Hong Kong. Ketiga, secara regulermereka berupaya memenuhi kebutuhan akan bimbingan dan pendidikan keagamaan melalui pengajian rutin yang diadakan setiap hari minggu, sesuai waktu libur yang umumnya tersedia bagi mayoritas pekerja Indoensia.

The Real, Imaginary and Possible in Robert Coover’s Short Story “Stick Man” (2005)

CLEaR ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 14-19
Author(s):  
Jaroslav Kušnír
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Short Story ◽  
American Culture ◽  
List Type ◽  
The Real ◽  
Celebrity Culture ◽  
Modes Of Representation ◽  
Media Manipulation

Abstract In the context of Baudrillard’s theory of simulacra, this paper analyzes Robert Coover’s depiction of different versions of “reality” as manifested in his short story “Stick Man”. The paper argues that through the depiction of transworld characters oscillating between different ontological levels and modes of representation, Coover treats the relation between fiction and reality, deals, in the context of some post-structuralist theories, with a question of representation connected especially with the relation between language and reality, parodies celebrity culture, mass media manipulation of the audience and consumerism as important aspects of contemporary (American) culture, and points out the replacement of the representation by “simulation” in the contemporary technologically advanced world.

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