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- Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing
- ISBN-10: 1433185377
- ISBN-13: 9781433185373
- Format: 15.2 x 22.9 x 1.3 cm, kieti viršeliai
- Language: English
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This edited volume fills a gap in this understudied niche by offering an inter-disciplinary inquiry that acknowledges the depth and width for sport as a global force that shapes local culture, identity, and politics. As such this publication accommodates perspectives across sociology, cultural studies, anthropology, policy studies, and history to offer both a rich and complementary account of sporting culture in Hong Kong's socio-historical context. In the past, Orientalist myths told through movies and advertisements have produced an idealized image of Hong Kong as a city of hybridity, a place where "East meets West," with a futurist skyline that has inspired countless steampunk and sci-fi novels. However, the last few years have significantly changed the global perception of this Asian metropolis amidst the formation of a new geopolitical frontier. This volume is not so much a documentation of a peculiar sports system, but a timely discussion and analysis of Hong Kong as a postcolonial place in crisis mode.
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- Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing
- ISBN-10: 1433185377
- ISBN-13: 9781433185373
- Format: 15.2 x 22.9 x 1.3 cm, kieti viršeliai
- Language: English English
This edited volume fills a gap in this understudied niche by offering an inter-disciplinary inquiry that acknowledges the depth and width for sport as a global force that shapes local culture, identity, and politics. As such this publication accommodates perspectives across sociology, cultural studies, anthropology, policy studies, and history to offer both a rich and complementary account of sporting culture in Hong Kong's socio-historical context. In the past, Orientalist myths told through movies and advertisements have produced an idealized image of Hong Kong as a city of hybridity, a place where "East meets West," with a futurist skyline that has inspired countless steampunk and sci-fi novels. However, the last few years have significantly changed the global perception of this Asian metropolis amidst the formation of a new geopolitical frontier. This volume is not so much a documentation of a peculiar sports system, but a timely discussion and analysis of Hong Kong as a postcolonial place in crisis mode.
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