Arcadia And The Lost Eden About Hong Kong

In recent years, Lilian Lee who took the breath of Hong Kong is becoming a keyword of the popular code in hinterland gradually. Her productions take on a kind of popular way named across style. As a result, the phenomenon of Lilian Lee look seems ready to come out. Traditional dichotomy about elegance and popular have got to lose its voice in front of her works, on the other hand, those conclusion of the popular writer or affectional writer also can't cover all meanings about the phenomenon of Lilian Lee. This paper uses the method of culture research to unscramble her works complicated meaning, and namely to research the special culture tradition of Hong Kong and the complicacy of public culture in the course of city progress.When we deeply dig all her works, we will discover an inside psychic spirit clue, from disappointment rooted the actuality to looking for the dream, then from losing the dream to returning the reality. This paper compares this process with from the lost Eden to arcadia, then to dream factory. This clue is derived from that the author continually balanced the modernistic thinking against the mercantile choice. And the social background is the mature culture industry of Hong Kong society whose influence is dual to the writers, namely restriction as well as adding fuel to the fire. This kind of influence make the position of the writer present the complicated antinomy. They usually criticize reality at the same time showing spontaneously the tendency in identifying with secularism. In this meaning, Lilian Lee becomes a specimen, representing those writers of Hong Kong who are fettered by the special culture industry of Hong Kong, and constantly self-breakthrough. On the other hand, they try to create the exquisite works of the public culture, at the same time, they also eager to become pet and stay up depending on the power of culture industry.