Title: Hong Kong and British culture, 1945-97 /
Authors: Hampton, Mark, 1970-
Year: 2016
Subjects: International relations; Great Britain Relations China Hong Kong.; Hong Kong (China) Relations Great Britain.; China Hong Kong; Great Britain
Abstract: A major contribution to the scholarship on British decolonisation, the cultural history of imperialism and Britain's engagement with China, this highly original study places the emergence of contemporary Hong Kong in a wider post-imperial setting.
Contents: Introduction: Britishness, empire, and Hong Kong -- Hong Kong and British culture: postwar contexts -- The discourse of unbridled capitalism in postwar Hong Kong -- A man's playground -- The discourses of order and modernism -- Good governance and Chinese British -- Narratives of 1997 -- Epilogue: postcolonial hangovers.