Title: Musings : reading Hong Kong, China and the world /
Authors: Lee, Leo Ou-fan.
Publisher: East Slope Pub. Ltd.,
Year: 2011
Subjects: Popular culture China Hong Kong.; Books China Hong Kong Reviews.; Hong Kong (China) Civilization.; Hong Kong (China) Social life and customs.
Abstract: 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.
Contents: Machine generated contents note: 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": (Dung Kai-cheung) -- A Citiology of Paradise: lost or found?: (Lawrence Pun Kwok-ling) -- A date with history: (Shih Shu-ching) -- First we eat: (Ya Si) -- Myth and the city: Shanghai and Hong Kong's city magazines -- An epic of banality: (Ha Jin) -- The happy exile: (Gao Xingjian) -- Lust, Caution: vision and revision -- Spying on The Spyring: The Spyring (Eileen Chang) -- Her English problem: The Fall of the Pagoda by (Eileen Chang) -- Eileen Chang's new fiction about Hong Kong: The Book of Change -- The nobility of losing: (Lung Yingtai) and (Chi Pang Yuan) -- Confessions of a bookworm -- Franz Kafka: a fabulist for our time -- André Malraux's novel Mon's Fate: a contemporary reflection --