The Politics of Cantonese: The Heterogeneity and Diversity of Hong Kong Language and Culture / Edited by Wen Jiehua

**How does Cantonese culture reappear in Hong Kong, reflecting the ethnic relationship and social identity in this city?** This book brings together interdisciplinary research findings and results, taking into account the historical process, and often overlooked events and topics. It witnesses the daily life under the flourishing development of Hong Kong language and culture, and helps us explore the cultural identity of Hong Kong people and the subtleties of the past and the past. Variety. **Editor's profile** Wen Jiehua, Director of the School of Film, Hong Kong Baptist University, and Chair Professor of Humanities. Her research and writings include: Comparative Aesthetics, Comparative Philosophy, Feminist Philosophy, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, Culture and Art, etc. **Author of this book** Zhu Jinluan, Yu Shaohua, Huang Zhongming, Lu Weili, Zheng Weipeng, Qi Xiahui, Chen Jinrong, Liang Xuming, He Weiye, Chen Yunzhong, Liang Hanzhu, Zhong Baoxian, Ma Jiewei, Xu Baoqiang ISBN: 9789629965891 Finishing: Paperback Language: Traditional Chinese Number of pages: 264 Dimensions: 210 x 148 mm **recommend** Reading this book, we will understand better: if Hong Kong’s historical memory is missing "Shiniang Nanyin", "Niu Jingliang", "Huang Feihong", or "Xu Guanjie" and other cultural symbols in Cantonese, it is an important defect in Hong Kong's appearance. . This book reminds us that the so-called "local" politics cannot be separated from the structure of language. The political inside and outside of Hong Kong often extend from the balance between Hong Kong's Cantonese, Putonghua, English, and at least a few ethnic languages. To deeply understand the relationship between Hong Kong's language environment and social and cultural phenomena, this book should be the best guide. —— Chen Guoqiu, Yushan Scholar Chair Professor, Department of Chinese Literature, Tsinghua University, Taiwan The general direction of cultural research is to take the attitude of local politics, pretend to be a niche in the cascade of elegance and popular, and refine critical elements through daily life, so that it can compete with the so-called mainstream and elite. From the perspective of material and discussion, between the textual system and the environment, each essay in this book shows both rigorous and incisive analysis and exploration. The authors especially place their research goals in the clear "now" time and space of Hong Kong culture, hoping to inject energy into the purely Hong Kong literature and art, so that it can cut into adversity and survive. —— Wang Jianyuan, Professor, Department of English Language and Literature, Hong Kong Shue Yan University