Abstract
Here I explore the relations between aural production, visuality and being, as they connect to the new identities that are formed through Hong Kong's production of Mandarin Chinese-language music, films and music videos. To explore these issues I focus on the movie Perhaps Love (Ruguo Ai) [P. Chan 2005] and YouTube music videos relating to that film. Hong Kong has a long-standing historical symbiosis between its music and movie industries. Perhaps Love includes a range of cultural metaphors that include Buddhist allegory as well as the interplay of cultural understandings of gender and geographical space. Seeing Hong Kong productions is both a form of knowing and of creative appropriation—for the movie makers, for the audience, and for fans who create their own narratives with the new tools that are available to them.
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