Download or read book Culture, Politics and Television in Hong Kong written by Eric Kit-wai Ma and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-07-28 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ma looks at the ways in which the identity of Hong Kong citizens has changed in the 1990s especially since the handover to China in 1997. This is the first analysis which focuses on the role, in this process, of popular media in general and television in particular. The author specifically analyses at the relationship between television ideologies and cultural identities and explores the role of television in the process of identity formation and maintenance.