The Disappearance of Hong Kong in Comics, Advertising and Graphic Design

摘要

Hong Kong's subjectivity is a complicated one. It was ceded by China to Great Britain as a leased territory in 1842, with other territories later leased in a similar fashion. Hong Kong returned to Chinese control in 1997, and its identity has been constructed on the one hand as that of a British territory resisting Chinese influence, and on the other as a Chinese territory being freed from British control and reabsorbed into China. However, a third way of understanding Hong Kong's identity is possible: on its own terms, as a place that reflects both its British and Chinese heritages but stands apart from them. In The Disappearance of Hong Kong in Comics, Advertising and Graphic Design, Wendy Siuyi Wong seeks to "examine Hong Kong's struggle against the disappearance of its unique identity" in this context, and to "[articulate] the diverse cosmopolitan character of Hong Kong, a possible base for the building of a new subjectivity for the future."