Cultural Conflict in Hong Kong

Jason S. Polley is Associate Professor of literary journalism, postmodernism, and poststructuralism at Hong Kong Baptist University. His research interests include post-WWII graphic forms, media analysis, Hong Kong Studies, and Anglo-Indian fiction. His creative nonfiction books are Refrain (2010) and Cemetery Miss You (2011). His monograph is Jane Smiley, Jonathan Franzen, Don DeLillo: Narratives of Everyday Justice (2011). Vinton W.K. Poon is a Lecturer at the Master of Arts Programme at Hong Kong Baptist University. He teaches and researches discourse, history of linguistics, as well as language and politics. Lian-Hee Wee is Professor of linguistics at Hong Kong Baptist University and has co-authored/edited six volumes and numerous book chapters and articles, largely on phonology. His phonetic-learning APP (AV Phonetics) has been downloaded more than 10,000 times by students and faculty of linguistics, psychology and music around the world.

Introduction: Made Into Hong Kong.- Part I: Surveillance.- Turning English into Cantonese: The Semantic Change of English Loanwords.- Beehives and Wet Markets: Expat Metaphors of Hong Kong.- Hong Kong Paradox: Appearance and Disappearance in Western Cinema.- Hong Kong Diversity in Anglophone Childrens Fiction.- Ann Huis Allegorical Cinema.- Part II: Sousveillance.- Approaching Linguistic Norms: The Case of/for Hong Kong English on the Internet.- Hong Kongs Edward Snowden/Edward Snowdens Hong Kong.- The Lazy Element: LMF and the Localization of Hip Hop Authenticity.- Worlding Hong Kong Literature: Dung Kai-cheungs Atlas.- Writing Hong Kongs Ethos.- Part III: Equiveillance.- Chiaroscuro of the Uncanny: An Unknown Side of Old Master Q.- I didnt think wed be like them; or, Wong Kar Wai, Hongkonger.- Becoming Hong Kong-like: The Role of Hong Kong English in the Acquisition of English Phonology by Hong Kong Students.- Struggling to become non-Hong-Kong-like: The Necessity and Effectiveness of Training Hong Kong Youngsters Perception and Production of General American English Vowel.- Glocalizing Hong Kong Anglophone Literature: Locating Xu Xis Writing Across the Decades.