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Book Lost in Transition

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  • Author : Yaowei Zhu
  • Publisher : SUNY Press
  • Release : 2013-06-01
  • ISBN : 1438446454
  • Pages : 230 pages

Download or read book Lost in Transition written by Yaowei Zhu and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2013-06-01 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at the fate of Hong Kong’s unique culture since its reversion to China.

Book Hong Kong

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  • Author : I.C. Jarvie
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2013-07-04
  • ISBN : 1136234268
  • Pages : 436 pages

Download or read book Hong Kong written by I.C. Jarvie and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is Volume IV in a series of six on the Sociology of East Asia. Originally published in 1969, the aim was to fill the lack of sociological studies of Hong Kong at the time.

Book Hong Kong in Transition

Download or read book Hong Kong in Transition written by Robert Ash and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-08-29 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Hong Kong in Transition

Download or read book Hong Kong in Transition written by Robert F. Ash and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2000 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Found in Transition

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  • Author : Yiu-Wai Chu
  • Publisher : State University of New York Press
  • Release : 2018-10-16
  • ISBN : 143847170X
  • Pages : 310 pages

Download or read book Found in Transition written by Yiu-Wai Chu and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2018-10-16 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Hong Kong s Transition to Chinese Rule

Download or read book Hong Kong s Transition to Chinese Rule written by Ralf Horlemann and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Hong Kong in Transition

Download or read book Hong Kong in Transition written by R. Ash and published by Springer. This book was released on 2000-06-05 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents an overview of critical developments surrounding the handover of Hong Kong to Chinese rule. Well-known commentators 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 of the territory, which remain in many cases unresolved and pressing as Hong Kong enters the new century.

Book Lost in Transition

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  • Author : Yiu-Wai Chu
  • Publisher : State University of New York Press
  • Release : 2013-05-13
  • ISBN : 1438446470
  • Pages : 231 pages

Download or read book Lost in Transition written by Yiu-Wai Chu and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this timely and insightful book, Yiu-Wai Chu takes stock of Hong Kong's culture since its transition to a Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China in 1997. Hong Kong had long functioned as the capitalist and democratic stepping stone to China for much of the world. Its highly original popular culture was well known in Chinese communities, and its renowned film industry enjoyed worldwide audiences and far-reaching artistic influence. Chu argues that Hong Kong's culture was "lost in transition" when it tried to affirm its international visibility and retain the status quo after 1997. In an era when China welcomed outsiders and became the world's most rapidly developing economy, Hong Kong's special position as a capitalist outpost was no longer a privilege. By drawing on various cultural discourses, such as film, popular music, and politics of everyday life, Chu provides an informative and critical analysis of the impact of China's ascendency on the notion of "One Country, Two Cultures." Hong Kong can no longer function as a bridge between China and the world, writes Chu, and must now define itself from global, local, and national perspectives.

Book Staging Hong Kong

Download or read book Staging Hong Kong written by Rozanna Lilley and published by RoutledgeCurzon. This book was released on 1998 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book New Hong Kong Cinema

Download or read book New Hong Kong Cinema written by Ruby Cheung and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2015-11-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Hong Kong Art

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  • Author : David James Clarke
  • Publisher : Duke University Press
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN : 9780822329206
  • Pages : 254 pages

Download or read book Hong Kong Art written by David James Clarke and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Survey of contemporary Hong Kong art.

Book Hong Kong in Transition

Download or read book Hong Kong in Transition written by E. C. C. Lau and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Challenge of Hong Kong s Reintegration with China

Download or read book The Challenge of Hong Kong s Reintegration with China written by Ming K. Chan and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 1997-07-01 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The seven essays in this volume address some of the critical issues underlining the process of Hong Kong's reintegration with China. In reviewing the drastic changes in Hong Kong since the mid-1980s, the authors provide multi-disciplinary perspectives to articulate the major institutions and forces that shape the interaction between Beijing and Hong Kong and help to define the challenges ahead.

Book Hong Kong in China

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  • Author : Gungwu Wang
  • Publisher : Cavendish Square Publishing
  • Release : 1999
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 336 pages

Download or read book Hong Kong in China written by Gungwu Wang and published by Cavendish Square Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dramatic handover of Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China on July 1, 1997, amid much tension and speculation, closes one significant colonial chapter in Asia. At the same time, it also sets the stage for new political and economic possibilities with China closely involved with a key financial center in Asia. Hong Kong in China comprises a collection of papers evaluating the situation in Hong Kong SAR over the last two years. The handing over of Hong Kong to China presents a challenge to the legal system which is intrinsically and delicately linked to the political vision of one country, two systems. While politicians and legalists seek to work out the model, the people of Hong Kong confront the dilemma of an identity crisis, on top of the contentious social problems presented by the immigration of Chinese mainlanders.

Book Hong Kong s Transitions  1842 1997

Download or read book Hong Kong s Transitions 1842 1997 written by Judith Margaret Brown and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 1997 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The reversion of Hong Kong to China on 1 July 1997 is an event of major historical significance. This volume examines this event from a long-term perspective against the background of earlier turning-points in Hong Kong's political, economic and social history. Some of the chapters concentrate on Britain's colonial role from 1842; others place the emphasis on China's policies towards the colony; while some essays focus on the experiences of the Hong Kong people themselves. Hong Kong's Transitions also explores Hong Kong's relations with China and Britain in this troubled last decade of colonial rule, analyses the territory's wider global connections, and offers a basis for assessing its possible future as a part of the Chinese state. The study is intended to appeal to specialists and non-specialists and offers a broad context for interpreting this particularly crucial stage in Hong Kong's history.

Book Hong Kong  a Society in Transition

Download or read book Hong Kong a Society in Transition written by Ian Charles Jarvie and published by New York : Praeger. This book was released on 1969 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Reclaimed Land

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  • Author : David Clarke
  • Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
  • Release : 2002-10-01
  • ISBN : 9622095763
  • Pages : 219 pages

Download or read book Reclaimed Land written by David Clarke and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2002-10-01 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between the end of 1994 and the beginning of 2000 - the last five years of the previous millenium - David Clarke took at least one black-and-white photo every day as he created a unique 'photo diary'. Drawing on this extensive visual archive, Reclaimed Land: Hong Kong in Transition offers a personal and critical perspective on the life of one of the world's most vibrant cities during a time of great change and self-questioning. This innovatively conceived book presents an analysis in deeply considered words and imaginative images of five years of Hong Kong's history whose exact mid-point - midnight on 30 June 1997 - saw the end of British colonial rule and the establishment of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China. Instead of focussing on the much-documented ceremonial events surrounding the handover itself, however, Reclaimed Land examines a longer term process of physical and cultural transformation of which the events of mid-1997 were but one part. This is an extraordinary and original way of telling the story of those years, and of examining the forces and phenomena behind that story. It can be enjoyed for its photography, considered as an excitingly different way of recording history, and read as a profound reflection on a city foreseeing and then experiencing an historical transformation.