Hong Kong: Culture and the Politics of Disappearance (Volume 2) (Public Worlds)

It is a small book, but very well written. It talks about Hong Kong urban space, film, and the city's modernity. The author doesn't only accumulate plies of words without analysis and thinking. Though the topics are limited by its length, the author developed every small point in great detail. Super inspiring! It is my favorite book about Hong Kong, at least so far.

An inventive look at localist twists and practices in cinema, literature, urban space, within contexts of transnational porousness and neo-nationalism. A poetics of distraction and late capitalist bemusement, useful and the mall and in the movies and poesy too.

A very profound study of Hong Kong's identity, without a past.