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

摘要

Wendy Siuyi Wong's The Disappearance of Hong Kong in Comics, Advertising and Graphic Design is a compilation of two decades of research on Hong Kong's visual culture from the end of the Second World War to the present. In it, Wong's stated purpose is 'to examine Hong Kong's struggle against the disappearance of its unique identity under the historic challenges of colonialism and the more recent reimposition of Chinese authoritarian government control, as reflected in three under-researched visual media: comics, advertising and graphic design' (p. 1). The title's reference to disappearance was inspired by Ackbar Abbas's now-classic study in which he argued that Hong Kong's peculiar lack of cultural identity is due to its status as 'not so much a place as a space of transit'.