An alternative metacritique of postcolonial cultural studies from a cultural sociological perspective

This paper examines some of the current metacritical perspectives to postco lonial cultural studies, and discusses an alternative cultural contextualis t perspective through the case of Hong Kong cultural studies. I first demar cate between contextualist and non-contextualist metacritical perspectives as well as between political-economic and cultural-contextualist ones. Then I identify major metacritiques that are currently made against postcolonia l studies, and by showing how they may be applicable to Hong Kong cultural studies, I suggest ways to re-interpret these metacritiques from a cultural sociological perspective. I shall highlight important structural character istics of Hong Kong cultural studies, and analyse them in terms of a cultur al sociology of the postcolonial intellectual field. Ultimately, I argue th at the problems associated with this postcolonial intellectual field appear to originate from the hierarchical global cultural context.