The Other Hong Kong Report 1997

Published annually since 1989, "The Other Hong Kong Report" is a review of the various aspects of development in Hong Kong in the past year by scholars and experts, who are not government officials, and is intended to offer an alternative view to that portrayed in government publications.

Ma looks at the ways in which the identity of Hong Kong citizens has changed in the 1990s especially since the handover to China in 1997. This is the first analysis which focuses on the role, in this process, of popular media in general and television in particular. The author specifically analyses at the relationship between television ideologies and cultural identities and explores the role of television in the process of identity formation and maintenance.