Culture and the city: Hong Kong, 1997-2007

China Review

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 59-83

  Cartier, Carolyn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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1. Government of the Hong Kong SAR, The 2006-07 Policy Address: Policy Agenda (Hong Kong: Government of the Hong Kong SAR, 2006), p. 46. Online: http://www.policyaddress.gov.hk/06-07/eng/policy.html. Accessed 15 April 2007.
2. Jockey Club Creative Arts Centre Planning Meeting, Hong Kong, 5 March 2006.
3. Rey Chow, Writing Diaspora: Tactics of Intervention in Contemporary Chinese Cultural Studies (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1993), pp. 136-37.
4. Oscar Ho, "The Problem with Politics: An Interview with Oscar Ho," Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, Vol. 4, No. 4 (2005), p. 11.
5. On the acceptance of colonial ideology in Hong Kong society see David Faure, Colonialism and the Hong Kong Mentality (Hong Kong: Centre for Asian Studies, The University of Hong Kong, 2003).
6. Bob Jessop, "Critical Semiotic Analysis and Cultural Political Economy," Critical Discourse Studies, Vol. 1, No. 2 (2004), pp. 159-74.
7. Jane M. Jacobs, Edge of Empire: Postcolonialism and the City (London: Routledge, 1996).
8. Ania Loomba, Colonialism/Postcolonialism (London and New York: Routledge, 1998), pp. 55, 97.
9. In the regional press see for example, Michelle Chin, "Big Dollars in Book Business; Queues of Enthusiasts Test 'Hong Kong Cultural Desert' Theory," South China Morning Post [Hong Kong], 24 July 1995, Business section, p. 2;
10. Ian Cheng, "Artistic Focus of a Knowledge-based Economy: Ambitious Development Will Create Icon for the Most Creative Hub in Asia," Financial Times, 26 September 2003, FT Report-Hong Kong, p. 4;
11. Chaim Estulin, "Hong Kong's New Culture," Time [Hong Kong], 17 January 2005, online: http://www.time.com/time/magazine /article/0,9171,501050124-1018165,00.html. Accessed 1 February 2007.
12. Among local cultural critics, see Fanny Wong, "People the Seeds in Cultural Desert," South China Morning Post [Hong Kong], 28 Aug. 1996, p. 18;
13. Joyce Hor-Chung Lau, "Arts Oasis Born in a Cultural Desert," South China Morning Post [Hong Kong], 9 September 2004a, p. 16;
14. Ada Wong, "Wenhua shamo?" (Cultural Desert?), Ming Pao [Hong Kong], 29 January 2005, p. D9.
15. Vicki Ooi, "The Best Cultural Policy Is No Cultural Policy: Cultural Policy in Hong Kong," in Cultural Perspective Hong Kong 1997 (Hong Kong: Hong Kong Cultural Sector Joint Conference, International Association of Theatre Critics and Zuni Icosahedron, 1997), p. 29.
16. Sir Norman Foster enjoys considerable support in Hong Kong based on his earlier designs for the Hong Kong International Airport and the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation.
17. Lung Ying-tai, "Wenhua zhengce yu gongmin shehui: Xianggang you shenme keneng? (Cultural Policy and Civil Society: Hong Kong Where Are You Heading?)," in Wenhua qiyi (Cultural Revolt), edited by Zhang Dingyuan (Hong Kong: TOM [Cup Magazine], 2004), pp. 91-107.
18. Estulin (Note 9).
19. Hong Kong Arts Development Council, West Kowloon Cultural District Consultation Forums, Consultation Forum I - for performing arts practitioners and arts groups Hong Kong, 2003. Online: http:// www.hkadc.org.hk/wkcd/qa_en.htm#forum2. Accessed 1 Jan. 2007.
20. Ronald Arculli in Una So, "Arculli Defends Funding Scheme for Culture Hub," The Standard [Hong Kong], 18 September 2007. Online: http://hk.news.yahoo.com/070917/318/2ftdm.html. Accessed 30 September 2007.
21. Government of the Hong Kong SAR, Home Affairs Bureau, "Executive Summary," Recommendation Report of the Consultative Committee on the Core Arts and Cultural Facilities of the West Kowloon Cultural District (Hong Kong: Government of the Hong Kong SAR, Home Affairs Bureau, 2007). Online: http://www.hab.gov.hk/wkcd/pe/eng/doc /CC_Report_eng/3_executivesummary.pdf. Accessed 30 September 2007.
22. See Lung Ying-tai, Sisuo Xianggang: cong meiti yu gongmin shehui de jiaodu chufa (Deliberating Hong Kong: Perspectives on Media and Civil Society), (Hong Kong: Ciwen huatong, 2006)
23. and Long Yingtai de Xianggang biji Shawan Jing 25 hao (Long Yingtai's Notes on Hong Kong Sandy Bay Path No. 25) (Hong Kong: Tianditushu youxian gongsi, 2006).
24. Lung Ying-tai, interviewed by the author, Hong Kong, 3 April 2006.
25. Ho (Note 4), pp. 11, 13.
26. Government of the Hong Kong SAR, The 2005-2006 Budget, The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (Hong Kong: Government of the Hong Kong SAR, 2005). Online: http://www.budget.gov.hk/2005/eng/ budget42.htm. Accessed 1 January 2007.
27. Mark Beeson, "Competing Capitalisms and Neoliberalism: The Dynamics of, and Limits to, Economic Reform in the Asia-Pacific," preprint (Brisbane: University of Queensland Library, 2004), pp. 1-16.
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29. Jessop (Note 6).
30. Joyce Hor-Chung Lau, "The Missing Spark for Creative Industries," South China Morning Post [Hong Kong], 22 January 2005, p. 17.
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32. See Scott Lash and John Urry, Economies of Signs and Space (London and Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1994).
33. Jaspar K. W. Lau, "Documenta 12 Magazines Feature on Education Potentially Wise? The Boom in Hong Kong Contemporary Arts Education," Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, Vol. 6, No. 1 (2007), pp. 103-10.
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35. "Chairman's message."
36. See Centre for Cultural Policy Research, Baseline Study of Hong Kong's Creative Industries (Hong Kong: Centre for Cultural Policy Research, 2003);
37. Home Affairs Bureau, A Study on Hong Kong Creativity Index: Interim Report (Hong Kong: Home Affairs Bureau, HKSAR and the Centre for Cultural Policy Research, 2004)
38. and Home Affairs Bureau, A Study on Creativity Index (Hong Kong: Home Affairs Bureau, HKSAR and the Centre for Cultural Policy Research, 2005).
39. See for example Jaime Peck, "Struggling with the Creative Class," International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Vol. 29, No. 4 (2005), pp. 740-70.
40. Ho (Note 4), pp. 10-11.
41. Joyce Hor-Chung Lau, "Freedom of Expression," South China Morning Post [Hong Kong], 13 June 2004, p. 13.
42. Phoebe Man, "Foreword," in Mapping Identities: The Art and Curating of Oscar Ho, edited by Irene Ngan and Eliza Lai (Hong Kong: Para/Site Art Space, 2004). pp. 9-10.
43. Leo Ou Fan Lee, "A Tribute to Oscar Ho on the Occasion of This Para-exhibition," in Ngan and Lai (eds.) (Note 34), p. 161.
44. See Roberta Smith, "The Well Shaped Phrase as Art," The New York Times, 16 November 2007. Online: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11 /16/arts/design/16wein.html?pagewanted=2. Accessed 16 November 2007.
45. Kith Tsang Tak-ping, "The Community Tactics of Para/Site Art Space," in Para/Site 1996-2000, edited by Anthony Leung Po-shan (Hong Kong: Para/Site Art Space Ltd., 2002), p. 23.
46. Theodor W. Adorno (trans. by R. Hullot-Kentor), Aesthetic Theory (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1997).
47. Clarence Tsui, "No Place for Art to Call Home; Commune Acts as Oil Street Slips Away," South China Morning Post [Hong Kong], 7 March 1999, p. 5.
48. Pak Sheung-chuen, interviewed by the author, Hong Kong, 1 June 2006.
49. Pak Sheung-chuen, See Walk What on 1 July (Hong Kong: Artopia Publishing Limited, 2005).
50. Pak Sheung-chuen, "A Present to the Central Government" (Hong Kong: Artwork of Pak Sheung-cheun. 2005).
51. Robert Loder, "Foreword," Re: Wanchai - Hong Kong International Artists' Workshop 2005 (Hong Kong: The AiR Association, 2005), p. 4.
52. Jaffa Lam, "Introduction," Re:Wanchai - Hong Kong International Artists' Workshop 2005 (Hong Kong: The AiR Association, 2005), p. 6.
53. See Community Museum Project at http://www.hkcmp.org/cmp/. Accessed 1 January 2007.
54. See for example Chloe Lai, "Harbour Watchdog Closes Its Office," South China Morning Post [Hong Kong], 6 January 2006, p. 2.
55. Vincent Ng Wing-shun in Chloe Lai, "Architects Hit out at Central Pier Design; Edwardian-style Design Lacks Essence and Spirit of the Original and 'Looks Like a Set from a Film Studio', Critics Say," South China Morning Post [Hong Kong], 30 August 2006, p. 1.
56. Chloe Lai, "Farewell to Hong Kong's Top Stars," South China Morning Post [Hong Kong], 12 September 2006, p. 6.
57. Chloe Lai, "Curse of the Star Ferry Pier," South China Morning Post [Hong Kong], 17 December 2006, p. 4.
58. SEE, No. 007 (July, 2006).
59. Critical Intermedia Laboratory, "Art Action to Conserve the Star Ferry Clock Tower," 8 October 2006. Online: http:/ /cilnews.wordpress.com/2006/10/. Accessed 1 January 2007.
60. On Hong Kong youth culture identity, see for example, Gary Cheung, "SAR Youngsters Reject Chinese Identity," South China Morning Post [Hong Kong], 1 October 2001, p. 5;
61. and Felix Chan, "City of Life Holds Little Sparkle for Many Disillusioned Hongkongers," South China Morning Post [Hong Kong], 25 October 2002, p. 6.