Yiu-Wai Chu is professor and director of the Hong Kong Studies Programme in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of Hong Kong.
"Few scholars I know of have as thorough a knowledge of Cantopop as
Yiu-Wai Chu. The account he provides here--of pop music as a nexus
of creative talent, commoditized culture, and geopolitical
change--is not only a story about postwar Hong Kong; it is also
"Yiu-Wai Chu's book presents a remarkable accomplishment it is not
only the first history of Cantopop published in English; it also
manages to interweave the sound of Cantopop with the geopolitical
changes taking place in East Asia. Combining a lucid theo
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