'These essays explore cosmopolitanism in postwar Chinese literary culture—from the Hong Kong identity, and intellectuals like Eileen Chang, Gao Xingjian, and Lung Yingtai, to other cultural streams represented by writers ranging from Oe to Kafka.' - from distributor's website.

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Onsite

Location code
REF.LOF (Hong Kong Room)
Language

English

Publication/Creation date

2011

No of pages

305

ISBN / ISSN

9789881500502

No of copies

1

Content type

monograph

Chapter headings

Chapter 1. In Search of a Hong Kong Mythology

Hong Kong since the Handover: the road to boredom

The Hong Kong Book Fair: a comment and a fantasy

A survey of books about Hong Kong history

Hong Kong through “The Painted Veil”: W. Somerset Maugham

At the gate of “Natural Creation” : 董啟章 (Dung Kai-cheung)

A Citiology of Paradise: lost or found? : 潘國靈 (Lawrence Pun Kwok-ling)

A date with history: 施叔青 ( Shih Shu-ching)

First we eat: 也斯 (Ya Si)

Myth and the city: Shanghai and Hong Kong’s city magazines

Chapter 2. Chinese Cosmopolitans

An epic of banality: 哈金 (Ha Jin)

The happy exile: 高行健 ( Gao Xingjian)

Lust, Caution: vision and revision Spying on The Spyring: The Spyring by 張愛玲 (Eileen Chang)

Her English problem : The Fall of the Pagoda by 張愛玲 (Eileen Chang)

Eileen Chang’s new fiction about Hong Kong: The Book of Change

The nobility of losing: 龍應台 (Lung Yingtai) and 齊邦媛 (Chi Pang Yuan)

Chapter 3. Reading the World

Confessions of a bookworm

Franz Kafka: a fabulist for our time

André Malraux’s novel Man’s Fate: a contemporary reflection

Our Nineteen Eighty-Four. some post-1984 thoughts on George Orwell

Obama as writer

A Voice that refused to be silenced: Pramoedya Ananta Toer

Always too late: Kenzaburo Oe

Just like the movies: Haruki Murakami

Phantom country: the many conflicting claims about India

Walk with me: writers who make good travel companions

Learning to be human again: books that teach us about who we are

Chapter 4. Reflections on My Column-Writing

My new career as a bilingual columnist

Hong Kong’s columnists and cultural critics: a personal testimony

Hong Kong’s columnists and cultural critics: a reply and elaboration

Musings: Reading Hong Kong, China and the World
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