Abstract
During the late 1950s and the early 1960s, the popularity of existentialism in Hong Kong played a significant role in the local modernism movement, which was represented in both criticism and literary works. The introduction and dissemination of existentialism in Hong Kong was much affected by the local environment of newspapers and the magazines. Representative figures became popular cultural icons, and their changing views brought about the changes in important concepts, which in turn changes the existentialism in Hong Kong. While holding their elite position, the intellects who advocated modernism were deeply involved into the current change through their contest for the right of discourse. The narrative of existentialism, manifested as one face of mass culture, contains the collective imagination of Hong Kong people and suggests the direction of future development since late 1960s.
First Page
138
Last Page
144
Recommended Citation
Zheng, Lei. 2012. "Existentialism in Hong Kong: Reading from the Perspective of Mass Culture." Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art 32, (3): pp.138-144. https://tsla.researchcommons.org/journal/vol32/iss3/5
