Post-Modern Scene of Hong Kong Society from Food Literature
Abstract
Writing words is a media, a trace reflecting the psychic life and the reproduction by memory of the author; things in the world would affect psychic life. Besides, food is a basic need in our living, the change of the eating way, eating environment, cooking methods being a trace of the society. So through text, Hong Kong food literature, traces of different authors, we can have a more consummate understand on the situation of Hong Kong society.
Moreover, Hong Kong is an international city; also it is a decolonized place of Britain.
The characteristic of Hong Kong culture, the identity of Hong Kong citizen is always a hot topic. In the decade, post-modern has become a new verb to describe Hong Kong. So, this treatise is going to find out if Hong Kong is in post-modern period and emotions of authors and citizens, through the picture of Hong Kong society in food literatures.
Methodology
This treatise aims to find out the picture of Hong Kong post-modern society from Hong Kong Diet Literature. In this treatise, the definition of “diet literature” is generalized to all texts using “Food” as the theme of literary writing. And the narrowed definition of “Hong Kong Diet Literature” is all texts using “Food” as the theme of literary writing, which written and published in HK by Hong Kong authors, writing Hong Kong places.
By observation, Hong Kong diet literature is absented in the study of Hong Kong literature history. The phenomenon, “Food” is being popular as a theme in HK literature, is worth to be concerned; it is proved by using the record from the categories of food culture in the online bookstore, Hong Kong Cyberbooks Ltd. .
As the study is to find out the picture of Hong Kong post-modern society, post-modern theories by Jacques Derrida and Jean-Francois Lyotard are used.
In this treatise, first, would describe the characteristics of postmodern and a city in post-modern period. Second, shows the evolvement of Hong Kong literature and the
Writing words is a media, a trace reflecting the psychic life and the reproduction by memory of the author; things in the world would affect psychic life. Besides, food is a basic need in our living, the change of the eating way, eating environment, cooking methods being a trace of the society. So through text, Hong Kong food literature, traces of different authors, we can have a more consummate understand on the situation of Hong Kong society.
Moreover, Hong Kong is an international city; also it is a decolonized place of Britain.
The characteristic of Hong Kong culture, the identity of Hong Kong citizen is always a hot topic. In the decade, post-modern has become a new verb to describe Hong Kong. So, this treatise is going to find out if Hong Kong is in post-modern period and emotions of authors and citizens, through the picture of Hong Kong society in food literatures.
Methodology
This treatise aims to find out the picture of Hong Kong post-modern society from Hong Kong Diet Literature. In this treatise, the definition of “diet literature” is generalized to all texts using “Food” as the theme of literary writing. And the narrowed definition of “Hong Kong Diet Literature” is all texts using “Food” as the theme of literary writing, which written and published in HK by Hong Kong authors, writing Hong Kong places.
By observation, Hong Kong diet literature is absented in the study of Hong Kong literature history. The phenomenon, “Food” is being popular as a theme in HK literature, is worth to be concerned; it is proved by using the record from the categories of food culture in the online bookstore, Hong Kong Cyberbooks Ltd. .
As the study is to find out the picture of Hong Kong post-modern society, post-modern theories by Jacques Derrida and Jean-Francois Lyotard are used.
In this treatise, first, would describe the characteristics of postmodern and a city in post-modern period. Second, shows the evolvement of Hong Kong literature and the
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