Hong Kong's New Identity Politics

Ip uses Hong Kong as a case study in how the production of the desire for "the local" lies at the heart of global cultural economy. Ip analyses the working and reworking of power relations and modes of agency in this global city.

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Iam-chong Ip is Assistant Professor and Associate Head of Cultural Studies at Lingnan Unversity, Hong Kong

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Acknowledgements

Chapter 1. Introduction

Chapter 2. The Fall of the Hong Kong Myth

Chapter 3. The City of jiyu/geijyu: Refashioning a Neoliberal Subject

Chapter 4. Ethnocracy: A Study of the Campaigns against Mainland Chinese Visitors

Chapter 5. Defending the City: Nativism and Political Existentialism

Chapter 6. Neoliberal Populism: Ethnicization of Right-wing Economics

Chapter 7. Poised between Two Times: Young men, Temporality, and Identity Politics

Chapter 8. "Hong Kong is not a dream": Disengagement, Translocality, and gangpiao

Epilogue: Will to Power

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Index