Popular Culture in Hong Kong After the National Security Law, 20202022

Ng examines the aftermath of the massive protests in 2019 and the implementation of the National Security Law in Hong Kong.

In this study, Ng examines the aftermath of the massive protests in 2019 and the implementation of the National Security Law in Hong Kong.

Despite 2 years of fluctuating COVID measures and social constraints, the city witnessed an unparalleled cultural resurgence after the enactment of the National Security Law in 2020. This book explores Hong Kong beyond the end of the Anti-Extradition Bill Movement in 2019, to examine what happened afterward, how society repaired itself, how the people of the city resumed their everyday life, and what this everyday life entails. Ng examines the social debates and conversations during these 2 years, analyzing a wide range of creative projects in the city, from television shows, popular music, and social media to literary writings. She describes the difficulties, emotional experiences, and also daily strategies to repair local life, recreate a self-identity, and reclaim the city's narrative against the pressures from China.

This book is a valuable resource for researchers, scholars, students, and general readers interested in popular culture and society, and the global uprisings of the first decades of the twenty-first century. The study, supported by detailed research, also makes this essential reading for those with a specialized interest in global studies, and China and Hong Kong studies.

Autorentext

Janet Ng is Professor at the Department of English at the City University of New York, USA.

Inhalt

Introduction 1. New Reality, New Communities, New Identities 2. Caring for the Self, Expanding the Intellectual Space 3. Generational Contests: Re-forming, Re-educating and De-radicalizing "Useless Youths" 4. The New Cantopop and the New Hong Kong Cinema 5. The Value of Optimistic Pessimism in Hong Kong's Capitalist Culture: The Television Drama, In Geek We Trust 6. The Contest of Language: "Human Language" and the Virtue of Swearing 7. The Itinerary of Pleasure: Reclaiming Individual Freedom in the City 8. The Campaign to Tell the Hong Kong Story Well: Dung Kai Cheung's Novel Hong Kong Letters and the Reinvention of Hong Kong's Story Coda