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OverviewDung 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Bonnie McDougall , Kai-cheung Dung , Anders HanssonPublisher: Columbia University Press Imprint: Columbia University Press ISBN: 9780231205429ISBN 10: 0231205422 Pages: 344 Publication Date: 21 June 2022 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Language: English Table of ContentsAuthor’s Preface: The Mask Translators’ Note 1. Agnès b. 2. Cutie Punk 3. Magpaper 4. Hello Kitty 5. Tank Tops 6. Sena’s Piano II 7. IXUS 8. Girl Specimens 9. Che 10. Pastéis de Nata 11. Photo Stickers 12. Football Kits 13. Red Wing 14. Eat as Much as You Like 15. A Bathing Ape 16. Hysteric Glamour 17. Windows 98 18. non-no 19. Konjak Jellies 20. Mebius 21. Combat Trousers 22. Puffy 23. Sony DV 24. Aprons 25. Air Jordan 26. ICQ 27. The Colored Sunglasses 28. Seiko Lukia 29. My Melody 30. Snoopy 31. Panatellas 32. Secondhand Clothes 33. Teletubbies 34. Ha Kam Shing 35. Nokia 8810 36. Camouflage 37. Le Couple 38. Bucket Hats 39. iMac 40. Rolex Daytona 41. Viva Japanese TV Drama 42. Polaroids 43. Lovegety Station 44. Prada 45. StarTAC 46. Colors 47. Beatmania 48. Adidas 49. Gucci 50. Yahoo! 51. Fujifilm Digital Camera 52. Converse Lo Tec 53. Hairpins 54. Cut Sleeves 55. Scarves 56. Animal Prints 57. The Pleated Skirt 58. Miu Miu Flannel 59. Gray 60. The Cockroach 61. The Cowboy Hat 62. Signal Youths 63. H2O+ 64. Depsea Water 65. The Patagonia Fleece 66. The Duffel Coat 67. LV Vernis 68. Panasonic DVD 69. South Park 70. Dreamcast 71. Tomb Raider III 72. Sharp MiniDisc Player 73. Burberrys Blue Label 74. MP3 75. Miffy 76. Devon Aoki 77. Motorola Dual Band 78. Cheesecake 79. PalmPilot 80. PN Rouge Suplinic 81. Final Fantasy VIII 82. The Waist Bag 83. Twisted Strands 84. Sunday 85. A Temporary Tattoo 86. The Neck Pouch 87. Cutie Cute & Horribly Horrid 88. 5S 89. Drawstrings 90. The Three Skewer Brothers 91. Khaki 92. White Blouses 93. Ballet Shoes 94. Birkenstock 95. Cargo Shorts 96. Flip-Flops 97. Hiromix 98. Chappies 99. Made in Hong KongReviewsDung Kai-Cheung is Hong Kong's greatest novelist. * Three Percent * Dung Kai-Cheung is Hong Kong's greatest novelist. * Three Percent * Dung Kai-cheung is the most prolific and imaginative Hong Kong writer of the past three decades. His A Catalog of Such Stuff as Dreams are Made On is a fascinating and singular literary meditation on how objects and stuff impact people's everyday lives, create meaning, and contribute to cultural identity. -- Michael Berry, editor of <i>The Musha Incident: A Reader on the Indigenous Uprising in Colonial Taiwan</i> These half-allegorical sketches by a uniquely gifted Hong Kong writer bring to us a nostalgic mosaic of sights and sounds of material culture about a city whose cosmopolitan splendor is fast fading. It is even more heart-rending to read them in English today than some twenty years ago when these astonishing literary tidbits first appeared in the Chinese original. -- Leo Ou-fan Lee, author of <i>City between Worlds: My Hong Kong</i> Dung Kai-Cheung is Hong Kong's greatest novelist. * Three Percent * Dung Kai-cheung is the most prolific and imaginative Hong Kong writer of the past three decades. His A Catalog of Such Stuff as Dreams are Made On is a fascinating and singular literary meditation on how objects and stuff impact people's everyday lives, create meaning, and contribute to cultural identity. -- Michael Berry, editor of <i>The Musha Incident: A Reader on the Indigenous Uprising in Colonial Taiwan</i> Author InformationDung Kai-cheung was born in Hong Kong in 1967 and teaches writing at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He has published more than twenty books in Chinese, mainly novels and short stories. His works in English translation include Atlas: The Archeology of an Imaginary City (Columbia, 2012), translated by Bonnie S. McDougall and Anders Hansson with the author, and The History of the Adventures of Vivi and Vera (2018). Bonnie S. McDougall is honorary professor of Chinese at the University of Sydney and has translated works by writers including Bei Dao and Ah Cheng. Anders Hansson is the author of Chinese Outcasts: Discrimination and Emancipation in Late Imperial China (1996). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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