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Ackbar Abbas


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Hong Kong

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Ackbar Abbas is a professor of comparative literature at the University of California, Irvine. Previously he was chair of comparative literature at the University of Hong Kong and also co-director of the Centre for the Study of Globalization and Cultures.

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His research interests include globalization, Hong Kong and Chinese culture, architecture, cinema, postcolonialism, and critical theory. His book Hong Kong: Culture and the Politics of Disappearance was published by the University of Minnesota Press in 1997.

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He previously served as a Contributing Editor to Public Culture, an academic journal published by Duke University Press.

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Education

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Ackbar Abbas holds an MPhil from the University of Hong Kong.

Contributions

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Abbas has written extensively on Hong Kong culture, architecture, and cinema.

Books

  • Hong Kong: Culture and the Politics of Disappearance. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997.
  • Internationalizing Cultural Studies. Co-edited with John Erni. Oxford: Blackwell, 2005.
  • Chen Danqing: Painting After Tiananmen. Hong Kong: University of Hong Kong, Cultural Studies Series No. 6, 1995.
  • The Provocation of Jean Baudrillard. Ed. Hong Kong: Twilight Books, 1990.
  • Literature and Anthropology. Co-edited with Jonathan Hall. Hong Kong: University of Hong Kong Press, 1986.
  • Rewriting Literary History. Edited with T.W. Wong. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 1984.
  • Literary Theory Today. Edited with T.W. Wong. Hong Kong: University of Hong Kong Press, 1981.

    • Editing

  • Book Series Editor (with Wimal Dissanayake), The New Hong Kong Cinema. University of Hong Kong Press, 2002–present.
  • Special issue editor (with Wu Hung), Hong Kong 1997: the Place and the Formula. Public Culture, May 1997.

    • Essays

  • “Culture as Event in China’s Socialist Market Economy,” in Proceedings of the 2005 Venice Biennale, ed. Robert Storr, forthcoming.
  • “Faking Globalization,” in Other Cities, Other Worlds: Urban Imaginaries in a Globalizing Age, ed. Andreas Huyssen (2008). Reprinted in A Visual Culture Reader, ed. Nicholas Mirzoeff, 3rd ed., (2012).
  • "The Fake as Anthropological Object," in Konzept Böll. Thema 2: Alles eins? Die Globale Zukunft von Kultur und Demokratie (forthcoming).
  • "Asian Phantasmagorias of the Interior," in HK Lab II: An Experience of Hong Kong's Interior Spaces, ed. Laurent Gutierrez, Valérie Portefaix, and Laura Ruggeri (Hong Kong: Map Book Publishers, 2005), 290-298.
  • "The Turns and Returns of Beauty," in Uber Schonheit/About Beauty (Berlin: House of World Cultures, 2005), 91-103.
  • "Framing the City Through Cinema," in Migrating Images (Berlin: House of World Cultures, 2004), 112-118.

    • References

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