The Literature Art of Hong Kong
Hong Kong's literature is famous for its so many writers and works with different styles. For example, the number of writers who have ten or above works is over 1000. Besides some serious literature with new methods and deep meaning, the main part of Hong Kong literature is popular literature which includes swordsman story, love story, detective story and historical novels. In Hong Kong, the column content is the best symbol for "fast-food culture". The writers in Hong Kong not only include the native people but also the immigrants from inland and foreign countries.

The Hong Kong swordsman story has occupied its site in the literature history by the great influnce of Liang YuSheng and Jin Yong. The love story often gets the materials from the bumpy life and voices women's wishes for love and happiness. The financial story maily written by Liang FengYi is the novel to express the Hong Kong people's mind and social life.

Film and TV in Hong Kong
Chinese-language film

Hong Kong is the biggest Chinese-language film production area outside China mainland. Of course Hong Kong is an important film manufacturing base. Hong Kong's film number is only fewer than USA and India's,and stands at the third in the world。Hong Kong's films usually produced by private companies. The income of box office always plays a key role in these companies' existence and development. Big companies can produce about 10 films every year. On the contrary, the small doesn't have this capacity, sometimes they only have one work in several years. Those big companies, such as Golden Harvest, are the VIP in Hong Kong film industry. The HKFA (Hong Kong Film Awards) also has a great influence around the Asia area.

Hong Kong's Television

Hong Kong's modern industrial management in TV began in 1960s and 1970s, became mature in 1980s. The consequence of this kind of management is represented by gaining profit during productions. To get more profit, television companies usually select the popular subjects to meet public 's taste; and pay attention to training stars, like Chow Yun-Fat, Andy Lau and other famous stars. Classical TV series in 1980s: "Shanghai Beach"(《上海滩》), "A Man in Net"(《网中人》)(TVB) in 1982,"Lovers and Super Hawk"(《神雕侠侣》)(TVB) in 1983,"Legend of Deer Mountain"(《鹿鼎记》), "Freshman"(《新札师兄》)(TVB) in 1984 ;"Heaven spirits"(《天灵》), "Ten Brothers"(《十兄弟》), "First Emperor(《秦始皇》)(ATV).

Mass Media in Hong Kong
The mass media is always developing in highly-opening and free-competition. The newspaper circulation is up to 300 per 1000 people, which is only lower than Japan in Asia. Hong Kong has an advanced Television-Radio broadcasting network. 5.12 million who are over 4 years old, spend 3.7 hours per day in watching kinds of programs. As a result, common families usually let their TV be on for almost 7 hours per day.

During Hong Kong's development as a free port and financial centre, Hong Kong has become an international information centre where 120 foreign media companies, including main western news agencies, set up their subdivisions or Asian-pacific area divisions. Newspapers and magazines overseas can be freely published in Hong Kong. While, some large-scale newspapers also have their foreign editions for Chinese people communities around the world. Hong Kong TV and radio programs are welcomed to other countries and areas. To mainland of China, Hong Kong has been a main opening window to communicate with world.
Painting and Sculpture

Hong Kong's painting art is divided into traditional Chinese painting and western painting. The representative artists of traditional Chinese painting are Ren ZhenHan, Zheng JiaZhen, Li XunPing, Zhao ShiGuang, Chen HaiYing and Wu BuYun. The western painting art, such as oil painting, water colour painting, sketch and printmaking, was accepted long time ago. The oil painting, of course, is in a significant position. Since 1970s, many young artists from China mainland, TaiWan and other countries start a new wave in oil painting creation.

The modern sculpture art also got rapid development in recent years. The works of Zhang Yi and Wen lou who graduated and returned from TaiWan are the reasonable examples of the development. Their practical but containing modern spirit and techniques sculptures has got the widely praises. Today, most sculptures in Hong Kong is going to show their new ideas in materials, creating and inner meaning.

Art of Photography

Hong Kong has been called "Kingdom of Photography" for years. In 1988, 12 Photography Assosiations from Hong Kong and Macao joined in and set up Hong Kong-Macao Photography Assosiation. In 1992, this organization held a grand "the photography art forum of Chinese photographers" to invite world Chinese photographers to explore new phtography methods. In this forum, many artists showed their works and let the native photographers have an opportunity to improve their skills in art.

 

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