Abstract
This chapter examines award-winning posters from the Hong Kong International Poster Triennial (HKIPT) and similar media elsewhere to examine the articulation of Chineseness reflected in the selected works. It takes the position of post-colonial and cultural studies theories, with particular focus on the discussion of Chineseness along with other works, as a framework to examine the mystification of national ethnicity and rethinking of Chineseness in the authoritarian age. The focus is on examples from China, Hong Kong and Taiwan in the two timeframes. The first period draws from examples between 2001 and 2010 from these three places to express their cultural identities based on the “binary oppositions” discussion. The second examination uses illustrative examples of posters and similar visual work produced from 2014 to 2018 to articulate the rethinking of Chineseness as a response to the expansion of authoritarianism in the region. The chapter finally asserts the importance of continuing research into the confluence of art and resistance to authoritarian threats to democracy.
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Wong, W.S. (2018). Not the Same: Rethinking Chineseness in a Global Context Through Poster Design. In: The Disappearance of Hong Kong in Comics, Advertising and Graphic Design. East Asian Popular Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92096-2_10
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