By Gordon Mathews, Tai-lok Lui
This booklet exhibits how the particular ehtnographic research of intake in Hong Kong may end up in a deeper figuring out of Hong Kong existence as an entire, in addition to of intake on the earth at large.
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These areas, unless advised otherwise by guidebook authors, were supposedly 'unsafe' for the tourists. 5 Indeed, in the guidebooks of this time, tourists were given the advice to act cautiously when shopping in non-tourist areas: The colony's back streets and narrow alleys abound with colourful little storefronts where one can bargain for jade or ivory carvings, paintings and calligraphy, an ancient Chinese art form. But here the buyer must beware and unless one possesses the expert's eye it is best to prowl these areas with a resident of long experience in such matters.
As one local cultural critic, recounting his memory of Ocean Terminal in the mid-1960s and the early 1970s, expressed in retrospect: Ocean Terminal is a terminal for passengers boarding ocean liners, but its creative part lies in its location in the tourist shopping area. Opposite to Central across the harbour, right next to the commuter node composed of the railway terminal, bus terminal and ferry piers, it constitutes an all-encompassing travel and consumption hub theoretically it serves the tourists, in reality it has become the locals' place for popular consumption.
Salaff 1981:124-8) This was the time when the people of Hong Kong were going through the unsettling days during and after the riots of the mid-1960s. It was also the time when a new generation, born and raised locally, was about to come of age. They had learnt to do window-shopping and had learnt from window-shopping; they were eager to know more about changing fashions and trendy consumption tastes. As one local cultural critic, recounting his memory of Ocean Terminal in the mid-1960s and the early 1970s, expressed in retrospect: Ocean Terminal is a terminal for passengers boarding ocean liners, but its creative part lies in its location in the tourist shopping area.