Title
Introduction
Document Type
Book chapter
Source Publication
The Queen of Statue Square : new short fiction from Hong Kong
Publication Date
9-1-2014
First Page
5
Last Page
16
Publisher
Critical, Cultural and Communications Press
Abstract
If Hong Kong were easy to simplify, this would have simplified things. Who is a ‘native’ resident? Or, to put the question another way, who is a ‘Hong Kong people’, a common second-language error here that raises interesting and rather profound questions when one unpacks the meaning underneath the Chinglish. Can people other than Cantonese-speaking Chinese fit the definition? Questions like these, as they have played out in the courts and the media, have led to shouting in the streets. And without the editors explicitly naming identity as a focus of this book (it is, after all, a fiction anthology, not a collection of essays in one of the social sciences), identity manifested as a theme in every story we accepted and quite a few that we did not.
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Additional Information
ISBN of the source publication: 9781905510436
Full-text Version
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Language
English
Recommended Citation
Moore, M., & Xu, X. (2014). Introduction. In M. Moore & X. Xu (Eds.), The Queen of Statue Square: New short fiction from Hong Kong (pp. 5-16). Nottingham: Critical, Cultural and Communications Press.
