Ackbar Abbas

Education

Contributions

Publications

Books

• Hong Kong: Culture and the Politics of Disappearance. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997.
• Internationalizing Cultural Studies. Co-edited with John Erni. Oxford: Blackwell, 2005.
• Chen Danqing: Painting After Tiananmen. Hong Kong: University of Hong Kong, Cultural Studies Series No. 6, 1995.
• The Provocation of Jean Baudrillard. Ed. Hong Kong: Twilight Books, 1990.
• Literature and Anthropology. Co-edited with Jonathan Hall. Hong Kong: University of Hong Kong Press, 1986.
• Rewriting Literary History. Edited with T.W. Wong. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 1984.
• Literary Theory Today. Edited with T.W. Wong. Hong Kong: University of Hong Kong Press, 1981.

  Editing

• Book Series Editor, The New Hong Kong Cinema. University of Hong Kong Press, 2002–present.
• Special issue editor, Hong Kong 1997: the Place and the Formula. Public Culture, May 1997.

  Essays

• "Culture as Event in China’s Socialist Market Economy," in Proceedings of the 2005 Venice Biennale, ed. Robert Storr, forthcoming.
• "Faking Globalization," in Other Cities, Other Worlds: Urban Imaginaries in a Globalizing Age, ed. Andreas Huyssen. Reprinted in A Visual Culture Reader, ed. Nicholas Mirzoeff, 3rd ed.,.
• "The Fake as Anthropological Object," in Konzept Böll. Thema 2: Alles eins? Die Globale Zukunft von Kultur und Demokratie.
• "Asian Phantasmagorias of the Interior," in HK Lab II: An Experience of Hong Kong's Interior Spaces, ed. Laurent Gutierrez, Valérie Portefaix, and Laura Ruggeri, 290-298.
• "The Turns and Returns of Beauty," in Uber Schonheit/About Beauty, 91-103.
• "Framing the City Through Cinema," in Migrating Images, 112-118.