Sonic Multiplicities is a fascinating book, with essays rich in empirical detail and - captivatingly combining the personal and the theoretical - evocative of the complexities of experience, desire and politics in our perplexingly mobile and entangled world. The book focuses on Hong Kong pop music as part of a translocal, if not global network of flows, providing a starting point for the authors to unsettle received notions of Chineseness, place and identity, of particular importance in a time when we need to come to terms with and resist, the increasingly stifling discourse of 'the rise of China'.

Yiu Fai Chow is assistant professor in the Humanities Program at Hong Kong Baptist University.Jeroen de Kloet is assistant professor in the Department of Media Studies at the University of Amsterdam.

INTRODUCTION: SONIC MULTIPLICITIES 

Chapter 1: ME AND THE DRAGON: A LYRICAL ENGAGEMENT WITH THE POLITICS OF CHINESENESS

Chapter 2: THE PRODUCTION OF LOCALITY IN GLOBAL POP - A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF POP FANS IN THE NETHERLANDS AND HONG KONG 

Chapter 3: BLOWING IN THE CHINA WIND: ENGAGEMENTS WITH CHINESENESS IN HONG KONG'S ZHONGGUOFENG MUSIC VIDEOS

Chapter 4: SEX, MORALITY AND CANTOPOP

Chapter 5: BUILDING MEMORIES - A STUDY OF POP VENUES IN HONG KONG

Chapter 6: OLYMPIC CELEBRATIONS AND PERFORMATIVE CONTESTATIONS

Chapter 7: MUSIC, DESIRE AND THE TRANSNATIONAL POLITICS OF CHINESENESS: FOLLOWING DIANA