by Chu Wing Ki. / Thesis submitted in: July 1997. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1998. / Filmography: leaves 216-219. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 204-215). / Chapter Chapter 1. --- Introduction: Contemporary Nostalgia Films Understood in the Colonial Context of Hong Kong / Chapter I. --- opular Culture as an Arena ofublicarticipation --- p.2 / Chapter II. --- opular Culture and Colonialism --- p.14 / The Ambivalence of Colonialism --- p.14 / """Status-quo Imaginary"" as the Manifestation of Colonial Ambivalence" --- p.17 / Chapter i. --- Hong Kong in the late 60s --- p.21 / Chapter ii. --- Hong Kong in the 70s --- p.24 / Chapter iii. --- Hong Kong in the 80s and 90s --- p.30 / Popular Culture Understood in the Colonial Context of Hong Kong --- p.35 / Chapter III --- The Contemporary Mode of Nostalgia as Mediation of Colonialrocess --- p.38 / Nostalgia Films Understood inost-Colonial Context -- The Ambivalence of History --- p.38 / Chapter i. --- Nostalgia Films not Targetted towards the Rediscovery of History --- p.40 / "The Appropriation of History as a ""Laughable"" Other" --- p.43 / "The Substitution of History by ""Style""" --- p.47 / Chapter ii. --- Nostalgia Films' Evocation of a Free-Floating Signifier of Hong Kong Historical Identity --- p.50 / Nostalgia Films as a Context-Specific Articulation --- p.56 / Nostalgia Films as a Form of Disavowal --- p.59 / Outline of the Coming Chapters --- p.61 / Chapter Chapter2. --- Nostalgia and History --- p.66 / Chapter I. --- Rouge --- p.66 / The Construction of Nostalgic Effects --- p.67 / "“Sense of Loss"" as Identity Formation" --- p.72 / "Theast as a ""Split Object"" of Identification" --- p.75 / Pessimism as a Collective Empowerment --- p.84 / Chapter II. --- Center Stage --- p.88 / Interrogation of History --- p.89 / Pessimism as Empowerment -- Reification of History --- p.93 / The Ambivalence of History --- p.100 / Chapter III. --- Days of Being Wild --- p.103 / Interrogation of History:History and Subject Formation --- p.103 / """Internal Colonization"" and Fatalism" --- p.113 / "The Image of “Innocence""" --- p.116 / Conclusion --- p.121 / Chapter Chapter 3. --- Nostalgia and Urban Space --- p.124 / Chapter I. --- Nostalgia as a Critique of Urban Space --- p.124 / Chapter II --- Chungking Express --- p.131 / "Old Chinese Apartment as Site of “Re-enchantment""" --- p.133 / "The “Urban Spectacle"" -- Old Chinese Apartment as Reified Spatial Construct" --- p.140 / Chapter i. --- "The Traversed Space of ""Contemporariness"" and ""Pastness""" --- p.140 / Chapter ii. --- "The ""Openness"" of Old Chinese Apartment" --- p.147 / Old Chinese Apartment -- An Expression of Nostalgia? --- p.155 / Chapter III. --- "He ´ةs a Woman and She ´ةs a Man, C'est La Vie Mon Cheri，He and She" --- p.158 / "The “ Urban Spectacle""" --- p.158 / Chapter i. --- ositive Human Qualities --- p.158 / Chapter ii. --- A Historical Sense oflace --- p.163 / Chapter iii. --- Interior Design -- The Assertion of Urban Spirit of Change --- p.165 / Chapter iv. --- "Socially and Culturally ""Marginal"" Characters" --- p.167 / Urban Status-quo Imaginary and Cultural Identificationin Hong Kong --- p.170 / Old Chinese Apartment as Reified Spatial Construct --- p.174 / Chapter i. --- Thearadox of Attraction and Anxiety A Discourse ofrogress --- p.174 / Chapter ii. --- The Inscription of the Imperative of Advancement intohysical Surrounding --- p.179 / Chapter iii. --- "The “Urban Spectacle"" of Social Differences ""Cloaked"" Gestures of ´ب´بSubversion""" --- p.181 / Conclusion --- p.191 / Chapter Chapter 4. --- Conclusion: Nostalgia -- The Ambivalence of History --- p.194 / Chapter I. --- Optimism andessimism as Identity Formation --- p.194 / Chapter II --- The Commercialization of Nostalgia --- p.197 / Bibliography --- p.208 / Filmography --- p.220 / Appendix I-IX