Kung Fu : negotiating nationalism and modernity
Document Type
Book chapter
Source Publication
Asian cinemas : a reader and guide
Publication Date
1-1-2006
First Page
100
Last Page
125
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Abstract
'Kung fu', as a cultural imaginary consecrated in Hong Kong cinema since the 1970s, was constituted in a flux of nationalism during the historical process whereby China catches up with modernity. More specifically, it is a continuous and paradoxical cultural intervention useful for problematizing 'traditional heritage' in modem life. Partially, it constitutes the Hong Kong imaginary by negotiating the complex and conflicting experience of colonial modernity and post-coloniality.
Additional Information
ISBN of the source publication: 9780748617760
Language
English
Recommended Citation
Li, S. L. (2006). Kung Fu: Negotiating nationalism and modernity. In D. Eleftheriotis & G. Needham (Eds.), Asian cinemas: A reader and guide (pp. 100-125). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.