Reconfiguration of 'the Stars and the Queen'

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Abstract After 1997, the once symbolic infrastructures of the British Empire have seemingly become eyesores of the new Hong Kong authority. In a ‘post-colonial’ era, is the transformation of former colonial structures a de-colonisation act, or is it ‘début’ of neo-colonialism? Buried with the ruins of annihilated colonial heritage were their complicated and contradictory representations. The Queen’s and Star Ferry Pier complex was, where colonial governors disembarked from the Royal yacht reaching the colony, as well the spot hosted the city’s first wave of social movement directed towards colonial suppressions in the 1970s


The attempt and success of the post-colonial authority to transform colonial space, and the public who is aloof to take actions when losing their ‘site of memory’, is seen as driven by different forms of ‘colonial legacy’. This book inspects the legacy’s texture, by disentangling the inter-relation between history, historiography, identty, architecture and civic awareness.