Eric Kit‐wai
Biographic Data
| ID | 5655297 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eric Kit‐wai |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eric |
| FAMILY NAME | Kit‐wai |
| SIGNATURE | WAI E K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 46 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Desiring Hong Kong, Consuming South China
Desiring Hong Kong, Consuming South China is a study of the complex and changing cultural patterns in Hong Kong's relationship with the neighbouring mainland. From interviews, TV dramas, media representations and other sources, Eric Ma traces the fading of Hong Kong's once-influential position as a role model for less-developed mainland cities and explores changing perceptions as China grows in confidence. The first part (Desiring Hong Kong) exam…
Compressed modernity in South China
This article examines the changing role of Hong Kong in what I propose as the formation of a compressed modernity in South China. In the 1980s through the 1990s, the Hong Kong liberal mediascape was over-spilling onto many developing cities in south China, fueling the desire for modernity among the people in the region. Since the return of Hong Kong to China in 1997, the Greater Pearl River Delta, in which Hong Kong is a small but influential cit…
Desiring Hong Kong, Consuming South ChinaTransborder Cultural Politics, 1970-2010
This book is a study of consumer desire and cultural production in China through the lived experience of ordinary people. It focuses on the complex and changing cultural patterns in Hong Kong's relationship with the neighbouring mainland. From interviews, TV dramas, media representations and other sources, the book traces the fading of Hong Kong's once-influential position as a role model for less-developed Mainland cities and explores changing p…
Transborder visuality
This article examines the interplay between the transborder visual culture of Hong Kong and South China. Transborder visuality refers to the transfer of visual culture from one geographic location to another. It is conceptualized in this project as a crucial nexus of cultural globalization at a time when China is catching up with modernity. By examining the changing patterns of transborder visuality in the case of Hong Kong and South China, the a…
Culture, Politics and Television in Hong Kong
Ma looks at the ways in which the identity of Hong Kong citizens has changed in the 1990s especially since the handover to China in 1997. This is the first analysis which focuses on the role, in this process, of popular media in general and television in particular. The author specifically analyses at the relationship between television ideologies and cultural identities and explores the role of television in the process of identity formation and…
Hong Kong
Translocal spatiality
Instead of exploring the global/local logic of glocalization, this case study specifically concentrates on a form of local-to-local spatial dynamics. The spatial history of Hong Kong underground bandrooms is exploited to illustrate the translocal reproduction of spatiality. While the construction of this space was translocally inspired by music subculture from abroad, local spatiality absorbs transborder subcultural energies and re-channels them …
Re-Advertising Hong Kong
Research Article| February 01 2001 Re-Advertising Hong Kong: Nostalgia Industry and Popular History Eric Kit-Wai Ma Eric Kit-Wai Ma Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google positions (2001) 9 (1): 131–159. https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-9-1-131 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Eric Kit-Wai Ma; Re-Advertising Hong Kong: Nostalgia Industry and Popular History. posi…
Consuming Satellite Modernities
Although the globalized world has multiple modernities, it retains a power vector which is centripetal to developed centres. I propose to use the concept ‘satellite modernities’ to refer to the magnetic sites between centres of high-modernity and developing modernites in the rest of the world. In developing countries, newly modernized cities are reproducing, hybridizing, and domesticating a simplified western modernity, a modernity that is in tur…
Re-nationalizationand me
Reinventing Hong Kong
This paper probes the processes by which commercial television has become an important site for reinventing Hong Kong identity at a key moment of political transition. Analysis foregrounds the complex interplay of local, national and global forces that are transforming Hong Kong media and the popular histories they produce. Of primary importance is how these forces shape collective memories and refigure popular imagination of membership in the Ch…
Translocal spatiality
Instead of exploring the global/local logic of glocalization, this case study specifically concentrates on a form of local-to-local spatial dynamics. The spatial history of Hong Kong underground bandrooms is exploited to illustrate the translocal reproduction of spatiality. While the construction of this space was translocally inspired by music subculture from abroad, local spatiality absorbs transborder subcultural energies and re-channels them …
Reinventing Hong Kong
This paper probes the processes by which commercial television has become an important site for reinventing Hong Kong identity at a key moment of political transition. Analysis foregrounds the complex interplay of local, national and global forces that are transforming Hong Kong media and the popular histories they produce. Of primary importance is how these forces shape collective memories and refigure popular imagination of membership in the Ch…
Compressed modernity in South China
This article examines the changing role of Hong Kong in what I propose as the formation of a compressed modernity in South China. In the 1980s through the 1990s, the Hong Kong liberal mediascape was over-spilling onto many developing cities in south China, fueling the desire for modernity among the people in the region. Since the return of Hong Kong to China in 1997, the Greater Pearl River Delta, in which Hong Kong is a small but influential cit…
Re-Advertising Hong Kong
Research Article| February 01 2001 Re-Advertising Hong Kong: Nostalgia Industry and Popular History Eric Kit-Wai Ma Eric Kit-Wai Ma Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google positions (2001) 9 (1): 131–159. https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-9-1-131 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Eric Kit-Wai Ma; Re-Advertising Hong Kong: Nostalgia Industry and Popular History. posi…
Re-nationalizationand me
Consuming Satellite Modernities
Although the globalized world has multiple modernities, it retains a power vector which is centripetal to developed centres. I propose to use the concept ‘satellite modernities’ to refer to the magnetic sites between centres of high-modernity and developing modernites in the rest of the world. In developing countries, newly modernized cities are reproducing, hybridizing, and domesticating a simplified western modernity, a modernity that is in tur…
Transborder visuality
This article examines the interplay between the transborder visual culture of Hong Kong and South China. Transborder visuality refers to the transfer of visual culture from one geographic location to another. It is conceptualized in this project as a crucial nexus of cultural globalization at a time when China is catching up with modernity. By examining the changing patterns of transborder visuality in the case of Hong Kong and South China, the a…
Reinventing Hong Kong
This paper probes the processes by which commercial television has become an important site for reinventing Hong Kong identity at a key moment of political transition. Analysis foregrounds the complex interplay of local, national and global forces that are transforming Hong Kong media and the popular histories they produce. Of primary importance is how these forces shape collective memories and refigure popular imagination of membership in the Ch…
Re-nationalizationand me
Re-Advertising Hong Kong
Research Article| February 01 2001 Re-Advertising Hong Kong: Nostalgia Industry and Popular History Eric Kit-Wai Ma Eric Kit-Wai Ma Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google positions (2001) 9 (1): 131–159. https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-9-1-131 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Eric Kit-Wai Ma; Re-Advertising Hong Kong: Nostalgia Industry and Popular History. posi…
Consuming Satellite Modernities
Although the globalized world has multiple modernities, it retains a power vector which is centripetal to developed centres. I propose to use the concept ‘satellite modernities’ to refer to the magnetic sites between centres of high-modernity and developing modernites in the rest of the world. In developing countries, newly modernized cities are reproducing, hybridizing, and domesticating a simplified western modernity, a modernity that is in tur…
Hong Kong
Translocal spatiality
Instead of exploring the global/local logic of glocalization, this case study specifically concentrates on a form of local-to-local spatial dynamics. The spatial history of Hong Kong underground bandrooms is exploited to illustrate the translocal reproduction of spatiality. While the construction of this space was translocally inspired by music subculture from abroad, local spatiality absorbs transborder subcultural energies and re-channels them …
Culture, Politics and Television in Hong Kong
Ma looks at the ways in which the identity of Hong Kong citizens has changed in the 1990s especially since the handover to China in 1997. This is the first analysis which focuses on the role, in this process, of popular media in general and television in particular. The author specifically analyses at the relationship between television ideologies and cultural identities and explores the role of television in the process of identity formation and…
Transborder visuality
This article examines the interplay between the transborder visual culture of Hong Kong and South China. Transborder visuality refers to the transfer of visual culture from one geographic location to another. It is conceptualized in this project as a crucial nexus of cultural globalization at a time when China is catching up with modernity. By examining the changing patterns of transborder visuality in the case of Hong Kong and South China, the a…
Desiring Hong Kong, Consuming South ChinaTransborder Cultural Politics, 1970-2010
This book is a study of consumer desire and cultural production in China through the lived experience of ordinary people. It focuses on the complex and changing cultural patterns in Hong Kong's relationship with the neighbouring mainland. From interviews, TV dramas, media representations and other sources, the book traces the fading of Hong Kong's once-influential position as a role model for less-developed Mainland cities and explores changing p…
Desiring Hong Kong, Consuming South China
Desiring Hong Kong, Consuming South China is a study of the complex and changing cultural patterns in Hong Kong's relationship with the neighbouring mainland. From interviews, TV dramas, media representations and other sources, Eric Ma traces the fading of Hong Kong's once-influential position as a role model for less-developed mainland cities and explores changing perceptions as China grows in confidence. The first part (Desiring Hong Kong) exam…
Compressed modernity in South China
This article examines the changing role of Hong Kong in what I propose as the formation of a compressed modernity in South China. In the 1980s through the 1990s, the Hong Kong liberal mediascape was over-spilling onto many developing cities in south China, fueling the desire for modernity among the people in the region. Since the return of Hong Kong to China in 1997, the Greater Pearl River Delta, in which Hong Kong is a small but influential cit…
Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics (10 works) · Political science (8 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Law (6 works) · History (5 works) · Media studies (5 works) · China (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Politics (4 works)