Hong Kong
Title | Hong Kong PDF eBook |
Author | Ching Kwan Lee |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 139 |
Release | 2022-09-08 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1108906648 |
How did Hong Kong transform itself from a 'shoppers' and capitalists' paradise' into a 'city of protests' at the frontline of a global anti-China backlash? CK Lee situates the post-1997 China–Hong Kong contestation in the broader context of 'global China.' Beijing deploys a bundle of power mechanisms – economic statecraft, patron-clientelism, and symbolic domination – around the world, including Hong Kong. This Chinese power project triggers a variety of countermovements from Asia to Africa, ranging from acquiescence and adaptation to appropriation and resistance. In Hong Kong, reactions against the totality of Chinese power have taken the form of eventful protests, which, over two decades, have broadened into a momentous decolonization struggle. More than an ideological conflict between a liberal capitalist democratizing city and its Communist authoritarian sovereign, the Hong Kong story, stunning and singular in its many peculiarities, offers lessons about China as a global force. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Made in Hong Kong
Title | Made in Hong Kong PDF eBook |
Author | Peter E. Hamilton |
Publisher | Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | 295 |
Release | 2021-01-05 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0231545703 |
Between 1949 and 1997, Hong Kong transformed from a struggling British colonial outpost into a global financial capital. Made in Hong Kong delivers a new narrative of this metamorphosis, revealing Hong Kong both as a critical engine in the expansion and remaking of postwar global capitalism and as the linchpin of Sino-U.S. trade since the 1970s. Peter E. Hamilton explores the role of an overlooked transnational Chinese elite who fled to Hong Kong amid war and revolution. Despite losing material possessions, these industrialists, bankers, academics, and other professionals retained crucial connections to the United States. They used these relationships to enmesh themselves and Hong Kong with the U.S. through commercial ties and higher education. By the 1960s, Hong Kong had become a manufacturing powerhouse supplying American consumers, and by the 1970s it was the world’s largest sender of foreign students to American colleges and universities. Hong Kong’s reorientation toward U.S. international leadership enabled its transplanted Chinese elites to benefit from expanding American influence in Asia and positioned them to act as shepherds to China’s reengagement with global capitalism. After China’s reforms accelerated under Deng Xiaoping, Hong Kong became a crucial node for China’s export-driven development, connecting Chinese labor with the U.S. market. Analyzing untapped archival sources from around the world, this book demonstrates why we cannot understand postwar globalization, China’s economic rise, or today’s Sino-U.S. trade relationship without centering Hong Kong.
A Borrowed Place
Title | A Borrowed Place PDF eBook |
Author | Frank Welsh |
Publisher | Kodansha |
Total Pages | 668 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
About the history of Hong Kong from ancient times until 1993.
A Modern History of Hong Kong
Title | A Modern History of Hong Kong PDF eBook |
Author | Steve Tsang |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | 352 |
Release | 2003-12-31 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0857714813 |
This major history of Hong Kong tells the remarkable story of how a cluster of remote fishing villages grew into an icon of capitalism. The story began in 1842 with the founding of the Crown Colony after the First Anglo-Chinese war - the original 'Opium War'. As premier power in Europe and an expansionist empire, Britain first created in Hong Kong a major naval station and the principal base to open the Celestial Chinese Empire to trade. Working in parallel with the locals, the British built it up to become a focus for investment in the region and an international centre with global shipping, banking and financial interests. Yet by far the most momentous change in the history of this prosperous, capitalist colony was its return in 1997 to 'Mother China', the most powerful Communist state in the world.
Making Hong Kong China
Title | Making Hong Kong China PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Davis |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | |
Release | 2020-10 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781952636134 |
How can one of the world's most free-wheeling cities transition from a vibrant global center of culture and finance into a subject of authoritarian control?As Beijing's anxious interference has grown, the "one country, two systems" model China promised Hong Kong has slowly drained away in the yearssince the 1997 handover. As "one country" seemed set to gobble up "two systems," the people of Hong Kong riveted the world's attention in 2019 by defiantly demanding the autonomy, rule of law and basic freedoms they were promised. In 2020, the new National Security Law imposed by Beijing aimed to snuff out such resistance. Will the Hong Kong so deeply held in the people's identity and the world's imagination be lost? Professor Michael Davis, who has taught human rights and constitutional law in this city for over three decades, and has been one of its closest observers, takes us on this constitutional journey.
Lonely Planet Pocket Hong Kong 7
Title | Lonely Planet Pocket Hong Kong 7 PDF eBook |
Author | Lonely Planet |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2019-06 |
Genre | China |
ISBN | 9781786578099 |
"Top sights - Local experiences"--Cover.
Hong Kong in Revolt
Title | Hong Kong in Revolt PDF eBook |
Author | Loong Yu Au |
Publisher | Pluto Press (UK) |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2020 |
Genre | Demonstrations |
ISBN | 9780745341460 |
"Hong Kong is in turmoil, with a new generation of young and politically active citizens shaking the regime. From the Umbrella Movement in 2014 to the defeat of the Extradition Bill and beyond, the protestors' demands have become more radical, and their actions more drastic. Their bravery emboldened the labour movement and launched the first successful political strike in half a century, followed by the broadening of the democratic movement as a whole. But the new generation's aspiration goes far beyond the political. It is a generation that strongly associates itself with a Hong Kong identity, with inclusivity and openness. This book sets the new protest movements within the context of the colonisation, revolution and modernisation of China."