NEW AND FORTHCOMING
Metacinema in Contemporary Chinese Film
Martial Arts Cinema and Hong Kong Modernity
Aesthetics, Representation, Circulation
G. Andrew Stuckey
Man-Fung Yip
At the core of this book is a fascinating paradox: the martial arts film, long regarded as a vehicle of Chinese cultural nationalism, can also be understood as a mass cultural expression of Hong Kong’s modern urban-industrial society. This important genre, Man-FungYip argues, articulates the experiential qualities, competing social subjectivities and gender discourses, and the heightened circulation of capital, people, goods, information, and technologies in Hong Kong of the 1960s and 1970s.
Depictions within a movie of either filmmaking or film watching are hardly novel, but the dramatic expansion of the reach of the metacinematic into contemporary Chinese cinemas is nothing short of remarkable. Metacinema also draws our attention to the presence of the audience, people actively responding to a film. In elucidating the affective responses elicited by the metacinematic mode in the viewers, G. Andrew Stuckey argues that metacinema reflects ways of being in the world that audiences may take up for themselves.
$65.00 / £54.00 cloth 978-988-8390-71-7
$40.00 / £32.95 cloth 978-988-8390-81-6
2017 272 pages
May 2018 160 pages 26 illus.
HONG KONG UNIVERSITY PRESS
HONG KONG UNIVERSITY PRESS
A Legacy of Elegance
Breathing Space
Oracle Bones Collection from The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Contemporary Art from Hong Kong
Edited by Dominique Chan
Li Zong-kun and Pik Ki Peggy Ho
$32.00 paper 978-988-12272-8-7
Many Shang dynasty inscribed oracle bones were found at Yinxu, Henan province. Their purpose and function shed significant light on the origin of Chinese culture, disclosing major concerns of the time. Shang oracle-bone script is the earliest known form of systematic Chinese writing, which is a crucial source for understanding the development of Chinese characters as well as the history of the Shang dynasty.
2018 144 pages
$52.00 paper 978-988-237-017-3
Breathing Space is published to accompany the eponymous exhibition at the Asia Society Hong Kong Center. The book includes extant works inside the gallery and new commissions in the outdoor area by Chilai Howard, Chloë Cheuk, Cheuk Wing Nam, Enoch Cheung, South Ho, Vaan Ip, Ko Sin Tung, Andio Lai, Siu Wai Hang, Adrian Wong, and Magdalen Wong.
ASIA SOCIETY HONG KONG CENTER
2018 268 pages
CHINESE UNIVERSITY PRESS
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