3 The Sound of Chinese Cool: Do You See the City Sing?

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Acknowledgments 5
3. A Note on Romanization and Translation 7
4. Table of Contents 9
5. Prologue Horse Racing and Dancing as Usual 11
6. Introduction 29
7. 1 Televising Pop: New Stars and Renewed Sensibilities 55
8. 2 Golden Days of the Silver Screen : Cinematic Imagination in a Not Yet Fallen City 83
9. 3 The Sound of Chinese Cool: Do You See the City Sing? 115
10. 4 The Importance of Being Chic: Fashion, Branding, and Multimedia Stardom 145
11. 5 The Practice of Everynight Life: Disco as Another Kind of Dance 177
12. 6 (Un)Covering Cosmopolitan Hybridity : Every Great City Deserves a City Magazine 213
13. Epilogue ‘We’ll Always Have Hong Kong’ 257
14. Select Bibliography 275
15. Glossary 285
16. Index 295