Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface ix
4. Introduction xiii
5. Stage One Initial Encounters
6. 1 Eating Hong Kong: The Experiences of a Food Lover and Nutritional Scientist 1
7. 2 Street Level Sociology in Hong Kong 24
8. 3 Philosophy in the Streets: Walking in Hong Kong 44
9. Stage Two Seeing
10. 4 Hong Kong: Cultural Transformation of the Public Sphere 66
11. 5 The Other Side of the Postcard: Navigating Linguistic Landscapes in Hong Kong 90
12. 6 Discovering Hong Kong through Movement 112
13. Stage Three The Search to Find and Understand the “Authentic” Other
14. 7 Reflections on Geography, Hong Kong, and Beyond 140
15. 8 The Colonial Past in Hong Kong’s Present 162
16. 9 Hamlet in Hong Kong 188
17. 10 Are You in the Safe Zone? 210
18. Stage Four Learning and Communicating in Place
19. 11 How Good Am I? Self Evaluation in an Examination Culture 230
20. 12 Reflections on Learning and Teaching in Hong Kong 250
21. 13 Rhetoric and the Art of Mid-Level Administration in Hong Kong 272
22. Stage Five Cross-cultural Movements
23. 14 Seeing/Doing Chinese History from Two Sides: Hong Kong and the United States 286
24. Postscript 309
25. Contributors 313