Decoding The Trading Floor: Charting a Postcolonial Hong Kong Identity through the TV Screen

Winnie L M Yee

doi:10.6092/issn.2421-454X/9159

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Winnie L M Yee University of Hong Kong http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0752-3210

Winnie L. M. Yee is Assistant Professor in Comparative Literature and at the University of Hong Kong. Her research interests are contemporary Chinese literature and film, Hong Kong culture, environmental humanities, and postcolonial theories. She has published on Hong Kong independent cinema, Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhangke, Chinese writers Natalia Chan and Dung Kai-cheung. Her works have appeared in Communication and the Public, Environment, Space, Place; Jump Cut, Journal of Urban Cultural Studies, among other places. She is currently working on a book project exploring the relationship between ecopoetics and Chinese independent film scene and an edited volume on Asian ecocinema.

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https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2421-454X/9159

Keywords:

Hong Kong, Financial Crime Thriller, Postcolonial Identity, Local, Transnationl

Abstract

This article adds to the analysis of Hong Kong TV culture by investigating recent trends in television production. It demonstrates that the small screen has become a means of grappling with postcolonial Hong Kong identity, and that this is most noticeable in its reinvention of the genre of the financial crime thriller. This analysis must be considered against the background of two new developments in television: the growth of transnational collaborations intended to appeal to the Asian market and the advent of TV series that replicate the experimentation of American shows and dispense with the traditional episodic narrative.

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