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	Hong Kong Cinema
		However, the very term “national identity” is contested since Hong Kong is being legally and culturally absorbed into the PRC while many of its people have strong lingering feelings that Hong Kong is and should continue to be a very separate society, distinct linguistically, culturally and—for many—politically from the mainland.
		Thus Hong Kong cinema seems to be playing “Hollywood” in the age of global capitalism, only on a smaller scale.
		Part One offers a comprehensive historical account of and research on Hong Kong’s New Wave as a “golden age.” The directors of that movement are united their understanding of film form, their being influenced by world cinema, and their commitment to articulating specific concerns related to Hong Kong’s local identity.
	www.ejumpcut.org /archive/jc45.2002/szeto/index.html (2030 words)

	Hong Kong New Wave - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Hong Kong New Wave was a blanket term applied to a number of young, groundbreaking Hong Kong filmmakers of the late 1970s and 1980s, many trained in overseas film programs and with experience in the territory's thriving television drama scene.
		New Wavers were technically audacious compared with the mainstream Hong Kong cinema of the time.
		The New Wave filmmakers were particularly given to revisionist explorations of popular genres, like the thriller (Hui's 1979 The Secret, Tam's 1981 Love Massacre), martial arts (Tsui's 1979 The Butterfly Murders, Tam's 1980 The Sword) and crime (Alex Cheung's 1979 Cops and Robbers, Yim's 1980 The Happenings).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hong_Kong_New_Wave (318 words)

	Synoptique - Corridor Romance : Wong Kar-wai's Intimate City (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Hong Kong’s curious suspension between cultures has continued well past 1997, when the capitalist colony was ceded back to China, which had, in the meantime, become a Communist republic.
		Hong Kong’s cinema – particularly its new wave cinema – cannot be considered outside of its distinctive political and social history.
		Hong Kong’s notoriously overcrowded tenements – just blocks away from its equally quintessential luxury hotels – are in Kowloon, part of Hong Kong’s mainland side and separated from Hong Kong Island by a narrow strip of South China Sea.
	www.synoptique.ca /core/en/articles/wypkema_hk (2821 words)

	Teleport City (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Hong Kong had been cranking out astounding films for three decades, starting with the old Shaw Brothers swordsman films of the 1960s and ending with the Hong Kong New Wave in the 1980s.
		The talent that had generated all the buzz was getting older, and the new generation of stars simply wasn't up to the task of filling in their shoes.
		Taken as Hong Kong fantasy spectacle or political allegory, Green Snake is one hell of a film, and it's the perfect final note for the Hong Kong New Wave to end on.
	www.teleport-city.com /movies/reviews/g-h/green_snake.html (3419 words)

	Hong Kong Travel Guide \| Fodor's Online
		When the 78-square-km (30-square-mi) island of Hong Kong was ceded to the British after the Opium War of 1841, it consisted, in the infamous words of the British minister at the time, of "barren rock" whose only redeeming feature was the adjacent deep-water harbor.
		They came to Hong Kong poorer than their families had been in generations, yet by virtue of their labor, their descendants are the wealthiest generation yet.
		Hong Kong has always lived and breathed commerce, and it is the territory's shrines to Mammon that will make the strongest impression when you first arrive.
	www.fodors.com /miniguides/mgresults.cfm?destination=hong_kong@74 (1020 words)

	city on fire Ch. 7
		Hong Kong's new wave filmmakers, emerging on the scene in 1979, are characterized as being the first generation of directors to grow up in Hong Kong, thereby loosening bonds to the Mainland.
		The new wavers are so named because of their new vision and experimentalism, as compared to the imported views and techniques of previous Hong Kong films.
		The phrase 'made in Hong Kong' implies a mixture of cultures and influences because of the colony's history and its combined population of primarily Mainland immigration and British presence.
	www2.scc-fl.com /mhoover/book/chapter7.htm (501 words)

	Hong Kong Sees New Wave Of Hotel Development (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Hong Kong's two newest upscale hotels designed for business travelers, the Langham Place and Le Meridien Cyberport, are in parts of the sprawling city previously not known for high-end hotel development.
		In addition, a Four Seasons Hotel is rising at the top of a new high-profile office tower in the heart of Hong Kong's financial district and the Grand Hyatt, an established Hong Kong property overlooking Victoria Harbor, this spring introduced a hotel-within-a-hotel, called Plateau.
		The wave of activity comes on the tail of a three-year drop in international travel following the 2001 terrorist attacks, a worldwide recession, the outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome and the war in Iraq.
	www.btnmag.com /businesstravelnews/headlines/meetings_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000589545 (897 words)

	Bright Lights Film Journal \| Hong Kong Cinema in the '80s (2)
		This outlook of Mainland characters in the Hong Kong cinema may point up a demographic fact of the late ’80s — that the population in the territory would consist of mainly working-class immigrants from China and Hong Kong's own lower strata of society, since much of the middle and upper classes have emigrated overseas.
		In studying the reasons for the demise of the Hong Kong New Wave, one may first suggest that Hong Kong is an extremely commercialized and opportunistic city in which the cinema is regarded purely as a medium for mass entertainment.
		Their contribution to the Hong Kong cinema has also added momentum to the rise of the Chinese and Taiwanese new waves, both of which tended to be bolder in artistic experimentation.
	www.brightlightsfilm.com /31/hk_achievement2.html (3685 words)

	Tokidoki Journal - Anime, Games, Manga, Jpop, Jrock, Japan, and Entertainment - Issue 8
		Hong Kong’s colonized turmoil and isolation could render a culture that was not ready to embrace contemporary, and urbanizing, worldwide issues and landscapes.
		It was that critical community that could produce the actual recognition of a ‘New Wave.’ He stressed how the filmmakers of the New Wave had a “kinship between the auteur and the critical community.” In doing so he also addresses the concept of cosmopolitan concerns of this cultural field.
		It is a New Wave that almost transcends the concept of "New Wave" when the individual artists are marked not by the aesthetics they produce but the sensibilities behind why they produced them.
	www.tokidokijournal.com /journal/8-may06/misc.php (6010 words)

	Amazon.com: Korean Cinema: The New Hong Kong: Books: Anthony Leong (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Hong Kong film stars, such as Jackie Chan, Chow Yun-fat, Jet Li, and Michelle Yeoh, have become household names headlining Hollywood blockbusters, while directors such as John Woo, Tsui Hark, and Wong Kar-wai are closing deals in Tinseltown and developing huge international followings.
		Korean Cinema: The New Hong Kong is a guidebook for exploring the new and exciting destination for exciting and innovative cinema: South Korea.
		Korean Cinema: The New Hong Kong by Anthony Leong
	www.amazon.com /Korean-Cinema-New-Hong-Kong/dp/1553954610 (2240 words)

	French New Wave - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The New Wave (French: la Nouvelle Vague) was a blanket term coined by critics for a group of French filmmakers of the late 1950s and 1960s, influenced (in part) by Italian Neorealism.
		Although never a formally organized movement, the New Wave filmmakers were linked by their self-conscious rejection of classical cinematic form and their spirit of youthful iconoclasm.
		In contrast, New Wave filmmakers made no attempts to suspend the viewer’s disbelief; in fact, they took steps to constantly remind the viewer that a film is just a sequence of moving images, no matter how clever the use of light and shadow.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/French_new_wave (1442 words)

	GreenCine \| Hong Kong Action
		As early as the silent era, Hong Kong cinema was already full of magical beings ripped from ancient legends and ferocious martial arts beatdowns, which typically came in the form of the fictionalized adventures of a real-life Robin Hood-like hero named Wong Fei-Hung.
		Meanwhile, a new generation of Hong Kong filmmakers had arrived on the scene armed with radical politics and visions of grand fantasy films inspired by both childhood memories of cinema-going and the post-Star Wars possibilities of special effects.
		Writer/director/producer Tsui Hark stood at the forefront of this New Wave.
	www.greencine.com /static/primers/hk.jsp (2319 words)

	subway cinema \| thoughts on tsui hark... an essay by andrew grossman
		The French new wave's love of classical Hollywood served more or less the same purpose for the Cahiers du Cinema critics, who saw in Hollywood's unabashed (yet, unlike today, still literate) generic energies an escape from the mildewed nobility of the Renoir generation.
		To put it another way, at its best the HK new wave legitimized the melodramatic impulse that the juvenile, self-satisfied ironies of contemporary American culture deny-the formulaic sanity of the melodramatic arc may be a conservative illusion, but, as far as illusions go, it is one that I seem to require.
		A reactionary gesture against the American media culture that fifteen years ago ignored the Hong Kong new wave almost as furiously as it now serves it with a poisoned glance and overeager handshake, my romanticism was, as I have implied, self-pitying and decadent.
	www.subwaycinema.com /frames/archives/tsui2001/tsuiandrew.htm (4245 words)

	ArtandCulture Movement: Hong Kong New Wave (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		However, the term also refers to the Hong Kong New Wave, a movement of a different sort that has proven to be as much a fiscal frenzy as an aesthetic undertaking.
		In the late '70s, when Hong Kong New Wave got rolling, the population of the territory was no longer composed primarily of immigrants from China but was increasingly made up of Hong Kong-born citizens who felt connected to the place and anxious about its imminent return to Chinese control.
		Although many critics have dismissed Hong Kong New Wave directors as purveyors of shallow plots and hollow aesthetic thrills, these directors created a movement that has influenced the expectations of audiences worldwide and has secured a place for the martial-arts action film as a fixture in world cinema.
	www.artandculture.com /cgi-bin/WebObjects/ACLive.woa/wa/movement?id=387 (450 words)

	Ann Hei @ Filmbug
		Ann Hui On-Wah (born May 23, 1947) is a Hong Kong film director, one of the most critically acclaimed amongst the Hong Kong New Wave.
		Hui was born in Anshan, Manchuria and she moved to Macao, then to Hong Kong when she was five.
		Returning to Hong Kong in 1975, she entered TVB as director, making many serials and documentaries on 16mm, helping in particularly King Hu as an assistant on television.
	www.filmbug.com /db/344580 (511 words)

	Trafford Publishing: Korean Cinema: The New Hong Kong
		Hong Kong film stars, such as Jackie Chan, Chow Yun-fat, Jet Li, and Michelle Yeoh, have become household names headlining Hollywood blockbusters, while directors such as John Woo, Tsui Hark, and Wong Kar-wai are closing deals in Tinseltown and developing huge international followings.
		However, many Hong Kong cinema aficionados, who passionately followed the rise of the 'Hong Kong New Wave' during the Eighties and early Nineties, only to become increasingly disenchanted since then, are now looking to South Korea for Asia's boldest and most innovative films.
		In some circles, South Korea is even being likened to the new 'Hong Kong', with its film industry on the verge of exploding onto the world stage, similar to how the 'Hong Kong New Wave' catapulted the former British colony and its groundbreaking films into the international spotlight.
	www.trafford.com /4dcgi/view-item?item=2449&1760029-3374aaa (999 words)

	DiscoverHongKong - Heritage - Chinese Festivals - Chinese New Year (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Visitors will be awestruck by the myriad of New Year celebrations in Hong Kong that last 15 days.
		This is one of the best times to visit Hong Kong as it goes into overdrive to provide a feast for the senses during this holiday season.
		Highlighting the New Year's festivities is the International Chinese New Year Parade held on the first day of every Chinese New Year.
	www.discoverhongkong.com /eng/heritage/festivals/he_fest_new.jhtml (240 words)

	Tsui Hark
		When it rains it pours and for five years in the mid-1990s Hong Kong cinema was swamped by a flood of critical enthusiasm that managed to be refreshing and patronizing at the same time.
		So while Hong Kong's film industry was on the one hand a slick, sophisticated machine that exported itself internationally, it was also the only agent of Chinese culture that could move freely between overseas Chinese communities.
		Hong Kong was as turbulent as any other nation in the late 1960s, but its youth movement came to a screeching halt as the Cultural Revolution buried China in a foaming sea of blood.
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/directors/03/tsui.html (2785 words)

	Discovering Asia's Newest Auteurs & Learning from Classics at the 28th Hong Kong Fest
		Zhu Wen's "South of the Clouds" captured several prizes at the 28th Hong Kong International Film Festival.
		Though this year's Hong Kong International Film Festival featured a number of worthy recent European films, it can be assumed that the main interest of most of the festival's foreign visitors was in its Asian offerings.
		Although director Lee Sun-fung is considered enough of an auteur in Hong Kong to have warranted his own retrospective and a large book dedicated to his work, I found his "Anna" (1955), a loose transposition of "Anna Karenina," somewhat stilted.
	www.indiewire.com /onthescene/onthescene_040426hong.html (1536 words)

	Planet Hong Kong: a book review by Shelly Kraicer
		I should signal, from the outset, that in my own writing on Hong Kong cinema, I stress the two approaches that Bordwell declines to follow, which is to trace out the links between HK cinema and local society, and to read HK cinema in a Chinese cultural context.
		At the core of his methodology is a close examination of Hong Kong filmmaking as craft: "setting oneself a craft problem and solving it in a fresh, virtuosic, but absolutely comprehensible way may be one equivalent in popular cinema for the experimental daring we find in the avant-garde".
		After an introductory chapter comparing Hong Kong and Hollywood film practice, Bordwell moves through what one might call a "reception history" of Hong Kong cinema (although that term is too constrictive, excluding the reciprocal relationships – the web of mutual influence – that Bordwell traces between the films' audiences and its filmmakers).
	www.chinesecinemas.org /planethk.html (1306 words)

	The (24th) Hong Kong International Film Festival (HKIFF) in the Year 2000 (and 1998)
		I missed last year when major retrospectives of the Hong Kong "New Wave" and the work of Johnnie To were mounted, but I was able to attend the 1998 tributes to the great Chinese writer Eileen Chang and wu xia pian master, King Hu.
		All in all, then, Hong Kong filmmakers seem to be in a creative mode, in the midst of trying to reclaim their native market.
		Not only did Hong Kong films plunge to new attendance lows (the top grosser was King of Comedy, which raked in less than HK$30 million, while the miracle of The Stormriders a year ago was never repeated)...," p.
	www.horschamp.qc.ca /new_offscreen/24thHKIFF.html (2861 words)

	New Wave - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The term "New Wave" has been used to describe several movements in art.
		Hong Kong New Wave, a movement in Hong Kong film led by Tsui Hark
		New Wave music movement which occurred in the United States and the United Kingdom in the late 1970s and early 1980s
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/New_Wave (272 words)

	CNN - TravelGuide: Pursuits - Hong Kong: The new surfing scene
		HONG KONG (CNN) -- On an island known for its skyscrapers and crowds, there is room for people whose passion is to ride the waves.
		has been surfing in Hong Kong for 15 years.
		He is one of the founding members of the Hong Kong Surfing Association, which includes about 200 members.
	www.cnn.com /TRAVEL/PURSUITS/OUTDOORS/9808/hongkong.surf/index.html (154 words)

	Hong Kong new: business, taxation and offshore
		Hong Kong's Chief Executive, Donald Tsang has thanked investors from mainland China and further afield for their continued vote of confidence in the territory's economy.
		Hong Kong And Guangdong To Boost Copyright Cooperation
		Older news items are available, for free, in the Tax-news.com Archive.
	www.tax-news.com /asp/newsjhk.asp (556 words)

	AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center
		Martial arts cinema was nothing if not star-driven in its "new school" incarnation, and the stars who emerged in the 1970s and 1980s were the brightest of them all, first and foremost the iconic Bruce Lee.
		A New York Times review raved that the kung fu icon "is decidedly an eye-catching figure..." Lee portrays a Jing wu exponent bent on avenging the death of his master and compatriots at the hands of Japanese rivals.
		Crammed with electrifying stunts and precision Keatonesque feats (hanging onto a moving double-decker bus with an umbrella), POLICE STORY combines the gymnastic derring-do and stupendous physicality of a martial arts film with the pace and grit of a contemporary urban action film.
	www.afi.com /silver/new/nowplaying/2006/v3i4/heroicgrace.aspx (2034 words)

	Holy Robe of the Shaolin Temple DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Meanwhile, a family of horse merchants (consisting of a father and four daughters who happened to be well-versed in the martial arts) lose control of their wild horses which results in a stampede.
		Eventually the Abbot succumbs to the prowess of Liao Kong; and the monks are horrified to discover they have a new leader.
		A new alliance is formed between the Shaolin monks, the Wu Tang, and the angry sisters to oppose the cruel regime of General Huang and his puppet Liao Kong.
	www.dvdcult.com /rev_HolyRobe.htm (1522 words)

	New Sighting in Hong Kong, Titanium Transformers Wave 1 and Transformers Cybertron - Transformers News
		New Sighting in Hong Kong, Titanium Transformers Wave 1 and Transformers Cybertron
		Remy of TFkenkon.com reports that Titanium Transformers Wave 1 and some new Transformers Cybertron Voyager Class figures are now out in Hong Hong.
		The factories are in China but the outgoing port is probably in Hong Kong (most companies still control their shipping from there).
	www.seibertron.com /news/view.php?id=6758 (1090 words)

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