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Film Review: The Great Magician (2011) by Derek Yee
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The Hong Kong/Mainland co-production is so disappointing because at first glance it gives cause for optimism. Derek Yeeis an experienced director who has a number of successful films, including “People’s Hero” (1987), to his credit. Then there is a basically splendid cast. Alongside Mr. Leung, other actors include Lau Ching-wan, the always great Zhou Xun, Paul Chun, Lam Suetand, in a not so small role, Wang Ziwen, who...
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Prominent Indonesian Chinese: Biographical Sketches (4th edition) 9789814620512
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Contents
Preface to the Fourth Edition (2015)
INTRODUCTION
LIST OF PROMINENT INDONESIAN CHINESE
Biographies
Abbreviations and Glossary
Select bibliography
INDEX
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Prominent Indonesian Chinese
ISEAS–Yusof Ishak Institute (formerly Institute of Southeast Asian Studies) was established as an autonomous organization in 1968. It is a regional centre dedicated to the study of sociopolitical, security and economic trends and developments in Southeast Asia and its wider geostrategic and economic environment. The Institute’s research programmes are the Regional Economic Studies (RES, including ASEAN and APEC), Regional Strategic and Political Studies (RSPS), and Regional Social and Cultural Studies (RSCS). ISEAS Publishing, an established academic press, has issued more than 2,000 books and journals. It is the largest scholarly publisher of research about Southeast
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Hong Kong Liminal: Situation as Method
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On the problems already faced by Hong Kong cinema at the time of returning to China see Grace Leung and Joseph Chan, "The Hong Kong Cinema and its Overseas Market: A Historical Review, 1950Review, -1995 impoverishing effect on Hong Kong culture overall and its imaginative capacities to project liveable futures. 29 What then might it mean in these tight conditions to imagine "Hong Kong as method"? In what follows I take two detours that I find helpful with this difficult question. First, I review some discussions of "method" developed in Inter-Asian cultural studies contexts for their concrete sense of what a method in the first place might be good for; then, second, I return to the Golden Chicken trilogy to look more closely at some folds in the anthropological concept of "liminality" useful for thinking about contemporary Hong Kong. I conclude with some remarks about the continuities I see between cinema