"Love Generation", "Sleeping Forest", and the Urban "Dream": Rural Myth in Japanese TV Dramas

In a recent effort to boost its threatened international image as well as its tourist trade, Hong Kong has highly publicized a newly designed city logo - the calligraphy of "Kowloon" in the form of a flying dragon. [...] the rhetoric of "World" city in Asia.

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:Journal of narrative theory 2003, Vol.33 (1), p.81-97
Main Author: Leung, Lisa Yuk Ming
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Calligraphy
Capitalism
Cities
Consumerism
Contemporary legends
Dreams
Japanese culture
Love
Memory
Mythology
Recessions
Rhetoric
Sleep
Suicides & suicide attempts
Television
Urban life
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Summary:In a recent effort to boost its threatened international image as well as its tourist trade, Hong Kong has highly publicized a newly designed city logo - the calligraphy of "Kowloon" in the form of a flying dragon. [...] the rhetoric of "World" city in Asia.
ISSN:1549-0815
1548-9248
1548-9248
DOI:10.1353/jnt.2011.0030