Staging Hong Kong

This volume examines contemporary cultural production in Hong Kong and its links to representations of "Hong Kong identity". The author argues that issues of local identity are wrapped up in a politics of culture whose result is to strengthen indigenist ideologies. These indigenist ideologies are viewed as part of an agonizing process undertaken by local people to re-negotiate "Chineseness" in light of the mainland's resumption of sovereignty over the territory in 1997.