Reconfiguration of 'the Stars and the Queen'

After 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.