Some of the tapes have deteriorated so much that they are becoming unreadable. This project was to enable me to transfer these documents onto a permanent digital format as soon as possible, to prevent further disintegration and illegibility of the information. It would also allow me to conceptualize the presentation of these materials in digital form in a manner more conducive to efficient research, and to successful pedagogical strategies in the classroom. The fashion language as well as the Hong Kong fashion semiotic system are considered as a clue of a wider change and evolution in Hong Kong Culture. Fashion is not just a matter of clothes.
Mass culture is even more representative of the fashion process than is fashion itself .
This research deals with Hong Kong Popular and Mass Culture fashionable phenomena and artifacts. This research is the first attempt to examine the pre and post Handover cultural changes in Hong Kong trough its fashion system. The place itself in Boston was meanwhile, at all events, a conscious memento, with old secrets to keep and old stories to witness for. There was a gentleman on board, to whom, as unintentionally learned through the thin partition which divided our state-room from the cabin in which he and his wife conversed together, I was unwittingly the occasion of very great uneasiness. Boz is on board still, my dear .