Hong Kong Noir

Author : Xu Xi,Marshall Moore
Publisher : Akashic Books
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018-12-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781617756924

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Hong Kong Noir by Xu Xi,Marshall Moore Pdf

“Showcases the extremes of one of the world’s capitals. From ghost stories, to historical thrills, to underworld brutality . . . endlessly fascinating.”—CrimeReads Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each book comprises all new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the respective city. In Hong Kong Noir, fourteen of the city’s finest authors explore the dark heart of the Pearl of the Orient in haunting stories of depravity and despair. This anthology includes brand-new stories by Jason Y. Ng, Xu Xi, Marshall Moore, Brittani Sonnenberg, Tiffany Hawk, James Tam, Rhiannon Jenkins Tsang, Christina Liang, Feng Chi-shun, Charles Philipp Martin, Shannon Young, Shen Jian, Carmen Suen, and Ysabelle Cheung. “The history of Hong Kong, once a fishing village, encompasses piracy, the opium trade, prostitution, corruption, espionage and revolutionary plots; grist for the 14 dark tales in Hong Kong Noir.”—BBC Culture “A delightfully dark collection of fiction from Hong Kong, a city where talk is cheap and cash is still king.”—Ritz-Carlton Magazine “Ng and Blumberg-Kason defy the fates by presenting a collection of 14 stores—by Chinese tradition, an ominous number—illustrating their city’s dark side . . . Readers can feel lucky to have such a collection.”—Kirkus Reviews "Hong Kong Noir digs below the financial center’s gleaming surface to unearth stories of the city’s ghosts and spirits.”—South China Morning Post

Author : Esther Yau
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781474412681

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Hong Kong Neo-Noir by Esther Yau Pdf

The first comprehensive collection on the subject of Hong Kong neo-noir cinema, this book examines the way Hong Kong has developed its own unique and culturally specific version of the neo-noir genre, while at the same time drawing on and adapting existing international noir cinemas. With a range of contributions from established and emerging scholars, this book illuminates the origins of Hong Kong neo-noir, its styles and contemporary manifestations, and its connection to mainland China. Case studies include classics such as The Wild Wild Rose (1960) and more recent films like Full Alert (1997) and Exiled (2007), as well as an in-depth look at the careers of iconic figures like Johnnie To and Jackie Chan. By examining at its past and its contemporary development, Hong Kong Neo-Noir also points towards the genre's possible future development.

Author : Feng Chi-shun
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014-02-07
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9881613965

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Hong Kong Noir by Feng Chi-shun Pdf

Hong Kong pathologist Feng Chi-shun once owned a dive bar in Kowloon City: a rough part of town which was home to the Sun Yee On triad gang. During that time, he heard a lot of stories. How about the street sleeper who was a millionaire, or the man who chose to end it all in Chungking Mansions? Do you want to know the details of the gruesome Hello kitty murder, or what the taxi driver from hell did to his passengers? How about Elvis of the Orient, the ancient movie star who fooled hundreds of people for his final performance, or the student who stumbled into the 1967 riots and entered the world of girlie bars? And what was the truth about the girl with the eagle tattoo? The 15 stories in Hong Kong Noir offer a glimpse of what happens in the shadows.

Author : Kim-Mui E. Elaine Chan
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-27
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783030282936

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Hong Kong Dark Cinema by Kim-Mui E. Elaine Chan Pdf

This book is a scholarly investigation of the historical development and contemporary transformation of film noir in today’s Hong Kong. Focusing on the evolvement of cinematic narratives, aesthetics, and techniques, the author balances a deep reading of the multiple filmic plots with a discussion of the cinematic portrayals of gender, romance, identities and power relations. Nuancing the prototypical cinematic form and tragic sense of classical film noir, the recent Hong Kong cinema turns around the classical generic role of film noir at the turn of the century to convey very different messages—joy, hope or love. This book examines how the mainstream cinema, or pre-and-post-Hong Kong cinema in particular, applies a peculiar strategy that makes rooms for the audience to enjoy a pleasure-giving process of reflexivity and also critique the mainstream ideology. With new analytical approaches and angles, this book breaks new ground in offering transcultural and cross-genre analyses on the cinema and its impact in local and international markets. This book is the first major scholarly investigation of the historical development and contemporary transformation of film noir in today’s Hong Kong. Focusing on the evolvement of cinematic narratives, aesthetics, and techniques, the author balances a deep reading of the multiple filmic plots with a refreshing discussion of the cinematic portrayals of gender, romance, identities and power relations. This book also revisits conceptual categories developed by Foucault, Lacan, Derrida and Butler.

Author : Jason Y. Ng,Susan Blumberg-Kason
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Hong Kong (China)
ISBN : 988779287X

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Hong Kong Noir by Jason Y. Ng,Susan Blumberg-Kason Pdf

Author : Lin Feng,James Aston
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783030550776

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Renegotiating Film Genres in East Asian Cinemas and Beyond by Lin Feng,James Aston Pdf

This book brings together nine original chapters to examine genre agency in East Asian cinema within the transnational context. It addresses several urgent and pertinent issues such as the distribution and exhibition practices of East Asian genre films, intra-regional creative flow of screen culture, and genre’s creative response to censorship. The volume expands the scholarly discussion of the rich heritage and fast-changing landscape of filmmaking in East Asian cinemas. Confronting the complex interaction between genres, filmic narrative and aesthetics, film history and politics, and cross-cultural translation, this book not only reevaluates genre’s role in film production, distribution, and consumption, but also tackles several under-explored areas in film studies and transnational cinema, such as the history of East Asian commercial cinema, the East Asian film industry, and cross-media and cross-market film dissemination.

Author : Susan Blumberg-Kason
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781402293351

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Good Chinese Wife by Susan Blumberg-Kason Pdf

A stunning memoir of an intercultural marriage gone wrong When Susan, a shy Midwesterner in love with Chinese culture, started graduate school in Hong Kong, she quickly fell for Cai, the Chinese man of her dreams. As they exchanged vows, Susan thought she'd stumbled into an exotic fairy tale, until she realized Cai—and his culture—where not what she thought. In her riveting memoir, Susan recounts her struggle to be the perfect traditional "Chinese" wife to her increasingly controlling and abusive husband. With keen insight and heart-wrenching candor, she confronts the hopes and hazards of intercultural marriage, including dismissing her own values and needs to save her relationship and protect her newborn son, Jake. But when Cai threatens to take Jake back to China for good, Susan must find the courage to stand up for herself, her son, and her future. Moving between rural China and the bustling cities of Hong Kong and San Francisco, Good Chinese Wife is an eye-opening look at marriage and family in contemporary China and America and an inspiring testament to the resilience of a mother's love—across any border.

Author : Chan Ho-Kei
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780802189820

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The Borrowed by Chan Ho-Kei Pdf

A legendary detective uncovers Hong Kong’s darkest crimes: “An ambitious narrative brilliantly executed . . . What an achievement!” (John Burdett, author of Bangkok 8). From award-winning author Chan Ho-kei, The Borrowed tells the story of Kwan Chun-dok, a detective who’s worked in Hong Kong fifty years. Across six decades of Hong Kong’s volatile history, the narrative follows Kwan through the Leftist Riot of 1967, when a bombing plot threatens many lives; the conflict between the HK Police and ICAC (Independent Commission Against Corruption) in 1977; the Tiananmen Square Massacre in 1989; the Handover in 1997; and the present day of 2013, when Kwan is called on to solve his final case, the murder of a local billionaire, in a modern Hong Kong that increasingly resembles a police state. Along the way we meet Communist rioters, ultra-violent gangsters, pop singers enmeshed in the high-stakes machinery of star-making, and a people always caught in the shifting balance of political power, whether in London or Beijing. Tracing a broad historical arc, The Borrowed reveals just how closely everything is connected, how history repeats itself, and how we have come full circle to repeat the political upheaval and societal unrest of the past. It is a gripping, brilliantly constructed novel from a talented new voice.

Author : Kelly Yang
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03
Category : JUVENILE FICTION
ISBN : 9781534488304

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New from Here by Kelly Yang Pdf

"Knox works to keep his family together as they move from Hong Kong back to northern California during the initial outbreak of the coronavirus."--

Author : Pettey Homer B. Pettey
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780748691128

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International Noir by Pettey Homer B. Pettey Pdf

Following World War II, film noir became the dominant cinematic expression of Cold War angst, influencing new trends in European and Asian filmmaking. International Noir examines film noir's influence on the cinematic traditions of Britain, France, Scandinavia, Japan, Hong Kong, Korea, and India. This book suggests that the film noir style continues to appeal on such a global scale because no other cinematic form has merged style and genre to effect a vision of the disturbing consequences of modernity. International noir has, however, adapted and adopted noir themes and aesthetic elements so that national cinemas can boast an independent and indigenous expression of the genre. Ranging from Japanese silent films and women's films to French, Hong Kong, and Nordic New Waves, this book also calls into question critical assessments of noir in international cinemas. In short, it challenges prevailing film scholarship to renegotiate the concept of noir. Ending with an examination of Hollywood's neo-noir recontextualization of the genre, and post-noir's reinvigorating critique of this aesthetic, International Noir offers Film Studies scholars an in-depth commentary on this influential global cinematic art form, further offering extensive bibliography and filmographies for recommended reading and viewing.

Author : James Kestrel
Publisher : Titan Books (US, CA)
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781789096125

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Five Decembers by James Kestrel Pdf

Winner of the 2022 Edgar Award for Best Novel “War, imprisonment, torture, romance…The novel has an almost operatic symmetry, and Kestrel turns a beautiful phrase.” New York Times Five Decembers is a gripping thriller, a staggering portrait of war, and a heartbreaking love story, as unforgettable as All the Light We Cannot See. nominated for Best Novel in the 2022 EDGAR AWARDS NOMINATED FOR BEST THRILLER IN THE 2022 BARRY AWARDS FINALIST FOR THE HAMMETT PRIZE 2021 "Read this book for its palpitating story, its perfect emotional and physical detailing and, most of all, for its unforgettable conjuring of a steamy quicksilver world that will be new to almost every reader." Pico Iyer December 1941. America teeters on the brink of war, and in Honolulu, Hawaii, police detective Joe McGrady is assigned to investigate a homicide that will change his life forever. Because the trail of murder he uncovers will lead him across the Pacific, far from home and the woman he loves; and though the U.S. doesn't know it yet, a Japanese fleet is already steaming toward Pearl Harbor. This extraordinary novel is so much more than just a gripping crime story—it's a story of survival against all odds, of love and loss and the human cost of war. Spanning the entirety of World War II, FIVE DECEMBERS is a beautiful, masterful, powerful novel that will live in your memory forever.

Author : Zabo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-31
Category : Art
ISBN : 9881376599

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Hong Kong Sweet & Sour by Zabo Pdf

French artist Zabo visited Hong Kong in the 1960s, and condensed his year-long stay into a book of cartoons which has come to be known as an emblem of the era. Life in Hong Kong's streets and trades is humorously illustrated with a touch of satire, covering popular habits, social etiquette, traditions and the customs of local people as well as foreign residents. Even half a century later, Zabo's portrayal of Hong Kong still rings true, and his take on life will resonate in the fond memories of all who lived through the Swinging Sixties.

Author : Esther Yau
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781474412674

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Hong Kong Neo-Noir by Esther Yau Pdf

The first comprehensive collection on the subject of Hong Kong neo-noir cinema, this book examines the way Hong Kong has developed its own unique and culturally specific version of the neo-noir genre, while at the same time drawing on and adapting existing international noir cinemas. With a range of contributions from established and emerging scholars, this book illuminates the origins of Hong Kong neo-noir, its styles and contemporary manifestations, and its connection to mainland China. Case studies include classics such as The Wild Wild Rose (1960) and more recent films like Full Alert (1997) and Exiled (2007), as well as an in-depth look at the careers of iconic figures like Johnnie To and Jackie Chan. By examining at its past and its contemporary development, Hong Kong Neo-Noir also points towards the genre's possible future development.

Author : MR Richard Tong
Publisher : O Group
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9881256313

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Sayonara Bitch by MR Richard Tong Pdf

Jack So. Single parent, not-so-good Samaritan. When a benevolent beer spills into a brutal bloodbath, a wave of violence washes over the Neon Noir shadows of Hong Kong and dumps Jack in the deep end. Again. Rubbing shoulders with high society's most celebrated, salacious and unscrupulous, Jack discovers some home truths are better left unsaid, You can't bury the past if it's not dead. And sins of the father can be a bitch. Sayonara Bitch is the sequel to Richard Tong's critically acclaimed Bitch On Heat. A hard-boiled hybrid of prose and graphics, augmented by more 170 pages of bold illustrations. Like Jack So, and the city that spawned him, this a unique cornucopia of cultures. A post-modern mash-up. A literary journey that will surprise at every turn.

Author : Kit Fan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0349701687

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Diamond Hill by Kit Fan Pdf