| Abstract | Different traces of nationalist, colonialist, anti-colonialist, and liberal-capitalist imaginary coexist in the public culture of Hong Kong. From a cultural-political point of view, the typical Hongkong imaginary remains a mixture of residual, dominant and emergent traces registering how it has variously been recognized and represented during the past few decades, as, among others: the cliche juncture where east meets west, the frontier of western imperialism and liberalism, the global capitalist "pearl," the unhomely "cultural desert," the reactionary base for "peaceful transformation," the forsaken child waiting to return to motherland, the "floating city," the last colony, the last miracle, or simply, a utopia realized. |
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