Description: Further DetailsTitle: A Catalog of Such Stuff as Dreams Are Made OnCondition: NewISBN-10: 0231205430EAN: 9780231205436ISBN: 9780231205436Publisher: Columbia University PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 06/21/2022Description: Dung Kai-cheung’s A Catalog of Such Stuff as Dreams Are Made On is a playful and imaginative glimpse into the consumerist dreamscape of late-nineties Hong Kong. First published in 1999, it comprises ninety-nine sketches of life just after the handover of the former British colony to China. Each of these stories in miniature begins from a piece of ephemera, usually consumer products or pop culture phenomena, and develops alternately comic and poignant snapshots of urban life.Dung’s sketches center on once-trendy items that evoke the world at the turn of the millennium, such as Hello Kitty, Final Fantasy VIII, a Windows 98 disk, a clamshell mobile phone, Air Jordans, and cargo shorts. The protagonist of each piece, typically a young woman, is struck by an odd, even overriding obsession with an object or fad. Characters embark on brief dalliances or relationships lasting no longer than the fashions that sparked them. Dung blends vivid everyday details—Portuguese egg tarts, Japanese TV shows, the Hong Kong subway—with situations that are often fantastical or preposterous. This catalog of vanished products illuminates how people use objects to define and even invent their own selves. A major work from one of Hong Kong’s most gifted and original writers, Dung’s archaeology of the end of the twentieth century speaks to perennial questions about consumerism, nostalgia, and identity.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 216mmItem Length: 140mmAuthor: Kai-cheung DungTranslator: Bonnie S. McDougall, Anders HanssonContributor: Bonnie S. McDougall (Translated by), Anders Hansson (Translated by)Genre: Society & CultureBook Series: Weatherhead Books on AsiaTopic: FictionRelease Year: 2022 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: A Catalog of Such Stuff as Dreams Are Made On
Title: A Catalog of Such Stuff as Dreams Are Made On
ISBN-10: 0231205430
EAN: 9780231205436
ISBN: 9780231205436
Release Date: 06/21/2022
Release Year: 2022
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Translator: Anders Hansson
Contributor: Anders Hansson (Translated by)
Series: Weatherhead Books on Asia
Book Title: Catalog of Such Stuff As Dreams Are Made on
Number of Pages: 344 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Topic: Urban, Asian / Chinese, Short Stories (Single Author), Linguistics / General
Item Height: 0.1 in
Publication Year: 2022
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines, Fiction, Literary Collections
Item Weight: 15 oz
Author: Kai-Cheung Dung
Item Length: 0.9 in
Book Series: Weatherhead Books on Asia Ser.
Item Width: 0.6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
