A Catalog of Such Stuff As Dreams Are Made On  


A Catalog of Such Stuff As Dreams Are Made On
June 6, 2023 | 288 pages
ISBN: 9780231205436

Dung Kai-cheung's A Catalog of Such Stuff as Dreams Are Made On is a playful and imaginative glimpse into the consumerist dreamscape of late-nineties Hong Kong. First published in 1999, it comprises ninety-nine sketches of life just after the handover of the former British colony to China. Each of these stories in miniature begins from a piece of ephemera, usually consumer products or pop culture phenomena, and develops alternately comic and poignant snapshots of urban life.