Eric Kit-wai Ma is Assistant Professor of Communication at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is the author of several books written in Chinese on the popular culture of Hong Kong.

Culture, Politics, and Television in Hong Kong is more than just the first book to go deeply into the role of television in the creation of Hong Kong identity. The book goes further, in offering a more general but nevertheless very stimulating theoretical reflection on the way in which television discourse and ideologies interact with society (chapter 8). This is a book that will definitely appeal to anyone with an interest in Hong Kong's social evolution over the past 30 years, and to all mediaspecialists, and no reader will fail to appreciate the rich bibliography that brings the book to an end. - - China Perspectives, 2000

• Chapter 1 Identity, culture, and the media; Chapter 2 Mediating Hong Kong identity (I); Chapter 3 Mediating Hong Kong identity (II); Chapter 4 Outsiders on television; Chapter 5 Re-imagining Hong Kong identity; Chapter 6 Public voices/private anxieties; Chapter 7 The production of television culture; Chapter 8 Rethinking television culture;

Eric Kit-wai Ma is Assistant Professor of Communication at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is the author of several books written in Chinese on the popular culture of Hong Kong.

Culture, Politics, and Television in Hong Kong is more than just the first book to go deeply into the role of television in the creation of Hong Kong identity. The book goes further, in offering a more general but nevertheless very stimulating theoretical reflection on the way in which television discourse and ideologies interact with society (chapter 8). This is a book that will definitely appeal to anyone with an interest in Hong Kong's social evolution over the past 30 years, and to all mediaspecialists, and no reader will fail to appreciate the rich bibliography that brings the book to an end. - - China Perspectives, 2000

• Chapter 1 Identity, culture, and the media; Chapter 2 Mediating Hong Kong identity (I); Chapter 3 Mediating Hong Kong identity (II); Chapter 4 Outsiders on television; Chapter 5 Re-imagining Hong Kong identity; Chapter 6 Public voices/private anxieties; Chapter 7 The production of television culture; Chapter 8 Rethinking television culture;

Eric Kit-wai Ma is Assistant Professor of Communication at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is the author of several books written in Chinese on the popular culture of Hong Kong.

Culture, Politics, and Television in Hong Kong is more than just the first book to go deeply into the role of television in the creation of Hong Kong identity. The book goes further, in offering a more general but nevertheless very stimulating theoretical reflection on the way in which television discourse and ideologies interact with society (chapter 8). This is a book that will definitely appeal to anyone with an interest in Hong Kong's social evolution over the past 30 years, and to all mediaspecialists, and no reader will fail to appreciate the rich bibliography that brings the book to an end. - - China Perspectives, 2000

• Chapter 1 Identity, culture, and the media; Chapter 2 Mediating Hong Kong identity (I); Chapter 3 Mediating Hong Kong identity (II); Chapter 4 Outsiders on television; Chapter 5 Re-imagining Hong Kong identity; Chapter 6 Public voices/private anxieties; Chapter 7 The production of television culture; Chapter 8 Rethinking television culture;