Wie konnte sich der politische Symbolismus kolonialer Architektur mit einem Regimewechsel ändern? Wie unterscheidet sich die Wahrnehmung urbaner Objekte von einem Akteur zum nächsten? Dieser Band untersucht die Wirkungen und Wahrnehmung des Vermächtnisses kolonialer Architektur anhand des Queen’s und des Star Ferry Piers in Hong Kong nach dem Machtwechsel 1997.
In englischer Sprache.
englischAfter 1997, the once symbolic infrastructures of the British Empire seemingly became eyesores to the new Hong Kong authority. In a ‘post-colonial’ era, is the transformation of former colonial structures an act of de-colonisation, or does it mark the beginning of neo-colonialism? Buried with the ruins of annihilated colonial heritage were their complicated and contradictory representations. The Queen’s and the Star Ferry Pier complex was the spot where colonial governors disembarked from the Royal yacht on reaching the colony and also hosted the city’s first wave of social movement directed towards colonial suppression in the 1970s.
The attempt by and success of the post-colonial authority in transforming colonial space, and the public who is aloof from taking action on losing their ‘site of memory’, are seen as driven by different forms of ‘colonial legacy’. This book inspects that legacy’s texture by disentangling the interrelationship between history, historiography, identity, architecture and civic awareness.
