Hong Kong

<p>Hong Kong has become a by-word for all that is modern and sparkling in Asia today.<br>Yet tourist brochures still play with the old cliche of Hong Kong as a place where 'East meets West'. Images of so-called 'traditional' China junks sailing Victoria Harbour or old women praying to gods in smoky temples mingle with those portraying Hong Kong as a consumer and business paradise.<br>This collection of essays attempts to transcend the old polarities. It looks at modern Hong Kong in all its splendour and diversity in the run-up to its re-absorption into Greater China in mid-97 through the mediums of film food architecture rumours and slang.<br>It explores the question of a distinct modern Chinese identity in Hong Kong and even when it explores the traditional stamping ground of the older anthropology in the New Territories it finds a dramatically changed context in particular for women.<br>This collection presents an intriguing insight into the process of transition from 'tradition' to 'modernity' in this Modern Chinese Metropolis.</p>