Paradigm City

Paradigm CityMaterially grounded analysis of contemporary film, literature, and music in Hong Kong that resists the superficial stereotypes of the "global city." Hong Kong is often cast in the role of the paradigmatic "global city," epitomizing postmodernism and globalization, and representing a vision of a cosmopolitan global and capitalist future. In Paradigm City, Janet Ng takes us past the obsession with 1997 the year of Hong Kong's return to China to focus on

A new introduction by Ellen Berscheid and Harold Kelley documents the evolution of the field

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works of the Buddhist logicians

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and evaluate materials and approaches at the North American university level

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The central claim is that the theories and critical practices of Bercovitch

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and embodiment and physical education

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