Postscript
Published in Hong Kong University Press eBooks • Sep 1, 2016
Authors:
Tan See Kam
Abstract
Peking Opera Blues presents a jiegu fengjin metafiction to the 1980s Hong Kong of the film’s making and release. This is done by Tsui Hark evoking a past (Republican China), that draws on historical hindsights for allegorizing lessons of history with respect to colonial Hong Kong’s post-1997 future ...