Prof. Dr. Ackbar Abbas

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Abstract

Ackbar Abbas is Professor of Comparative Literature at Hong Kong University, and at University of California, Irvine.
http://www.hku.hk/complit/csgc/
He is a Senior Fellow at the India China Institute and a Visiting Professor at Parsons The New School for Design.
His research interests include globalization, Hong Kong and Chinese culture, architecture, cinema, postcolonialism, and critical theory.
He currently serves as a Contributing Editor to Public Culture, an academic journal published by Duke University Press.

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Institution

• Hong Kong University University of California, Irvine
  » http://www.hku.hk/complit/csgc/

Biography

Ackbar Abbas is a professor of comparative literature at University of California, Irivine. His research interests include globalization, Hong Kong and Chinese culture, architecture, cinema, postcolonialism, and critical theory.

Publications

His book Hong Kong: Culture and the Politics of Disappearance was published by the University of Minnesota Press in 1997.

Keywords

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  • culture mediation

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• literature |
• comparative  |
• culture