'Expanded from a touring exhibition originated at Para Site in 2013, this book critically analyses historical and contemporary imaginations and politics of fear in the face of disease and the specter of contamination in society and culture. Scholars, artists, novelists, and journalists depart from Hong Kong’s history of epidemic—the most recent being the SARS outbreak of 2003, shortly followed by the tragic death of pan-Asian pop icon Leslie Cheung, and tackle the galvanising power and the varied perceptions of contagion in the context of lingering histories, myths, anxieties, and memories across geographies. While composing a complex picture of the Hong Kong psyche, these contributions speak from a humanistic and global perspective, pointing to the intersections of urban environments and post-colonial psychology, popular culture and racism, public health and migration, national identity and art.' - from back cover
Includes biographies of contributors and a checklist of works in the touring exhibition.
Onsite
English
2015
192
9783956791178
1
anthology
A Journal of the Plague Years - Cosmin COSTINAS, 康喆明, Inti GUERRERO, 格瑞洛殷迪
The Curse of Tai Ping Shan/Possession Street - DUNG Kai Cheung, 董啟章
Angel Island - WENG Xiaoyu, 翁笑雨
City of the Queen: A Novel of Colonial Hong Kong - Shuching SHIH, 施叔青
'Being Observations or Memorials, of the Most Remarkable Occurrences, as well Public as Private, which Happened in Hong Kong during the Great Visitation in 2003' - Fionnuala McHUGH
SARS@Hong Kong: A Brief Pathology of a Cinema of Disease - Michael BERRY
VDS - James T. HONG, 洪子健
Remapping China: Ai Weiwei's 'Baby Formula' - Border Anxiety and Internal Fear in China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan - HSU Minghang, 徐明瀚
Scene 7: The Phantom Mask - Zuni Icosahedron, 進念 二十面體, Zuni Icosahedron, 進念・二十面體
A Conversation on Being Artists and Having Fear - PAK Sheung Chuen Tozer, 白雙全, Lawrence PUN, 潘國靈
Queering Body and Sexuality: Leslie Cheung's Gender Representation in Hong Kong Popular Culture - Natalia CHAN
Bodies beyond the Plague: Five Performances
A Journal of the Plague Year
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After the Plague
Phoebe Wong considers an exhibition's haunting imagery after the traumas of SARS and Leslie Cheung's suicide
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