Hong Kong Novels: Cultural Identity and Urban Representation

The first half of this book is "historical imagination", which mainly analyzes the different types of historical writing in Hong Kong to observe how cultural identity changes in Hong Kong. The second half is "local experience", hoping to re-consider the development of contemporary Hong Kong literature as a new historical subject from the perspective of the city. As some analyses have pointed out, the author of this book starts with novels, trying to distinguish the complex and changeable cultural identity of Hong Kong in the meaning of historical construction, and at the same time, focusing on urban sensibility, establishing his own narrative perspective of Hong Kong literature. Compared with the analysis of Hong Kong literary history limited to the works of general writers, the research in this book undoubtedly shows an innovative approach.