As a place where Chinese and foreign cultures converge, Hong Kong is a place where Chinese and foreign cultural and artistic exchanges converge. Artists from all over the world come here and go to more diverse stages from here.
Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor mentioned in the latest "Policy Address" that the government will grasp the unique creative atmosphere of Hong Kong where Chinese and foreign cultures gather, and build Hong Kong as a cultural and creative capital of Asia.
To make Hong Kong a cultural metropolis, it is inseparable from the "local VS international" controversy, which implies the blind pursuit of Western culture and the prejudice and neglect of Chinese culture, as well as how Hong Kong reshapes its own cultural subject to base itself at the core of China and foreign countries. Proposition.
The West Kowloon Cultural District is an example worthy of discussion.
The original idea of the West Kowloon Cultural District was a comprehensive venue for hosting events and attracting tourists.
The picture shows the Xiqu Center in the West Kowloon Cultural District.
(Data Picture/Photo by Luo Junhao)
For details, please read the 287th "Hong Kong 01" electronic weekly newsletter "
Local VS International West Kowloon Should Not
Be Reduced to a Replica of Western Cultural Field " published on October 18, 2021
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Reshape soft power. Three | "Cultural Loss" for a long time, literature and art education must start from the doll
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