Paradigm City: Space, Culture, and Capitalism in Hong Kong (Global Modernity)

In Paradigm City, Janet Ng Takes Us Past The Obsession With 1997 - The Year Of Hong Kong's Return To China - To Focs On The Complex Uses And Meanings Of Urban Space In Hong Kong In The Period Following That Transfer. She Demonstrates How The Design And Ordering Of The City's Space And The Practices It Supports Inculcates A Particular Civic Aesthetic Among Hong Kong's Population That Corresponds To Capitalist As Well As Nationalist Ideologies. Ng's Connections Between Contemporary Film, Literature, Music, And Other Media And The Actual Spaces Of The City - Such As Parks, Shopping Malls, And Domestic Spaces - Provide A Rich And Nuanced Picture Of Hong Kong Today.--jacket. World Suicide Capital -- Walking Down Memory Lane : On The Streets Of The Hong Kong History Museum's Paradigm City -- Quality Citizens In Public Spaces -- The World Emporium And The Mall City -- Body Weight, Responsible Citizenship, And Women's Social Space -- Repatriating From Globalization. Janet Ng. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 187-196) And Index. Hong Kong is often cast in the role of the paradigmatic "global city," epitomizing postmodernism and globalization, and representing a vision of a cosmopolitan global and capitalist future. In Paradigm City, Janet Ng takes us past the obsession with 1997--the year of Hong Kong's return to China--to focus on the complex uses and meanings of urban space in Hong Kong in the period following that transfer. She demonstrates how the design and ordering of the city's space and the practices it supports inculcates a particular civic aesthetic among Hong Kong's population that corresponds to capitalist as well as nationalist ideologies. Ng's insightful connections between contemporary film, literature, music, and other media and the actual spaces of the city--such as parks, shopping malls, and domestic spaces--provide a rich and nuanced picture of Hong Kong today. "In Paradigm City, Janet Ng takes us past the obsession with 1997 - the year of Hong Kong's return to China - to focs on the complex uses and meanings of urban space in Hong Kong in the period following that transfer. She demonstrates how the design and ordering of the city's space and the practices it supports inculcates a particular civic aesthetic among Hong Kong's population that corresponds to capitalist as well as nationalist ideologies. Ng's connections between contemporary film, literature, music, and other media and the actual spaces of the city - such as parks, shopping malls, and domestic spaces - provide a rich and nuanced picture of Hong Kong today."--BOOK JACKET World suicide capital Walking down memory lane : on the streets of the Hong Kong history museum's paradigm city Quality citizens in public spaces The world emporium and the mall city Body weight, responsible citizenship, and women's social space Conclusion : homecoming from cosmopolitanism.