Hong Kong films

This and the following chapter offer textual analyses of cinematic constructions of Hong Kong nationhood. As representations of the past and the territory of a country are two significant means of constructing a sense of nation, this chapter focuses on cinematic constructions of Hong Kong’s history and territory. It argues that narratives about the past and the territory of Hong Kong confront the spectator with cinematic texts representing Hong Kong as a nation: the British colony not as part of China but as a geopolitically defined community that could only articulate itself in relation to the triangular relationship between the British coloniser, the Chinese motherland and Hong Kong.