Author : Robert Ash
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 18,84 MB
Release : 2003-08-29
Category : History
ISBN : 1134423896
This book offers a perspective on the constitutional and administrative experiment that has been taking place in Hong Kong, based on a substantial period under Chinese rule.
Author : Yaowei Zhu
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 40,75 MB
Release : 2013-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1438446454
Looks at the fate of Hong Kong’s unique culture since its reversion to China.
Author : Yiu-Wai Chu
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 21,68 MB
Release : 2018-10-16
Category : History
ISBN : 143847170X
In Found in Transition, Yiu-Wai Chu examines the fate of Hong Kong's unique cultural identity in the contexts of both global capitalism and the increasing influence of China. Drawing on recent developments, especially with respect to language, movies, and popular songs as modes of resistance to "Mainlandization" and different forms of censorship, Chu explores the challenges facing Hong Kong twenty years after its reversion to China as a Special Administrative Region. Highlighting locality and hybridity along postcolonial lines of interpretation, he also attempts to imagine the future of Hong Kong by utilizing Hong Kong studies as a method. Chu argues that the study of Hong Kong—the place where the impact of the rise of China is most intensely felt—can shed light on emergent crises in different areas of the world. As such, this book represents a consequential follow-up to the author's Lost in Transition and a valuable contribution to international, area, and cultural studies.
Author : Ralf Horlemann
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 18,67 MB
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : History
ISBN : 1134434111
Examining developments following Hong Kong's return to Chinese sovereignty, this book argues that genuine autonomy from the central government in Beijing is impossible without a democratic system in Hong Kong.
Author : Robert Ash
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 12,82 MB
Release : 2003-08-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1134423888
Hong Kong in Transition offers a perspective on the exceptional constitutional and administrative experiment that has been taking place in Hong Kong, based on a substantial period under Chinese rule. There have been both successes and failures, and a perceptible process of change which is important to document. The particular appeal of this volume lies in the fact that it combines a broad overview with detailed study of individual topics. It is multidisciplinary, and its chapters may be read as 'stand-alone' studies or taken as complementary parts of a whole snapshot of Hong Kong in this critical early period. The chapters are pitched at a level to make them accessible both to undergraduates and to the specialist. Contributors have been drawn from Hong Kong, Macau, the UK, the US, Australia and Germany, reflecting the international interest in the fate of Hong Kong.
Author : David James Clarke
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 12,25 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780822329206
Survey of contemporary Hong Kong art.
Author : Rozanna Lilley
Publisher : RoutledgeCurzon
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 43,17 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Experimental theater
ISBN : 9780700707034
The book explores the political forces shaping discourses about identity in Hong Kong and the ways in which identity is constituted within representation as part of an ongoing effort to dramatize an increasingly uncertain present.
Author : Ruby Cheung
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,5 MB
Release : 2015-11-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1782387048
The trajectory of Hong Kong films had been drastically affected long before the city’s official sovereignty transfer from the British to the Chinese in 1997. The change in course has become more visible in recent years as China has aggressively developed its national film industry and assumed the role of powerhouse in East Asia’s cinematic landscape. The author introduces the “Cinema of Transitions” to study the New Hong Kong Cinema and on- and off-screen life against this background. Using examples from the 1980s to the present, this book offers a fresh perspective on how Hong Kong-related Chinese-language films, filmmakers, audiences, and the workings of film business in East Asia have become major platforms on which “transitions” are negotiated.
Author : Robert F. Ash
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 27,62 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780312233549
This book presents an overview of critical developments surrounding the handover of Hong Kong to Chinese rule. Well-known commentors from a variety of disciplines examine the issues and events in the years leading up to the transfer of sovereignty, and in the eighteen months that followed. Major dilemmas are addressed in the economic, political legal, social and diplomatic life on the territory, which remain in many cases unresolved and pressing as Hong Kong enters the new century.
Author : Steve Tsang
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 17,71 MB
Release : 2003-12-31
Category : 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.
