Construction of Cantonese Popular Bourgeois Bohemians (Canton-pop bobos) in Hong Kong

The term, bourgeois bohemian (bobo), is Brook’s (2000) famous coinage to refer to the 1990s descendants of the yuppies. In this article, drawing on the notions of “hegemony” (Gramsci, 1971); “Chinese fatsos” and “urban imaginary” (Wang, 2005a, 2005b, 2005c), we aim to construct another portmanteau t...

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