Cosmopolitan Capitalists
Subtitle: Hong Kong and the Chinese Diaspora at the End of the Twentieth Century
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: July 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 185
ISBN-13: 9780295978031
Subjects: Asian / Middle Eastern history: postwar, from c 1945 -; Asian studies; Ethnography; Immigration & emigration; 20th century; Contemporary Politics - China; Emigration And Immigration; Social Science; Business / Economics / Finance; Business/Economics; Asia - China; Emigration & Immigration; Political; Capitalism; China; Chinese; Economic Conditions; Foreign countries; Hong Kong; Hong Kong (China)
Description: "At midnight on June 30, 1997, Hong Kong became part of the People's Republic of China. The transfer of Hong Kong sovereignty from Great Britain to China was an extraordinary historical event, signifying the end of the West's colonial presence in Asia and the rise of China's hegemony."--BOOK JACKET.

"In the past 150 years as a British colony, Hong Kong had changed from a barely inhabitable colonial entrepot to one of the world's leading financial and industrial centers.

Cut off from China for nearly 40 years following World War II and now faced with the dilemma of a new social and economic order under Chinese law, many Hong Kongers uprooted themselves and moved to a new country; others decided to stay; but a great many chose to maintain their lives and livelihoods in Hong Kong, while spreading their assets and their family members around the world."--BOOK JACKET.

"Cosmopolitan Capitalists focuses on the people of Hong Kong and how they are defining themselves under altered circumstances. It is a broad multidisciplinary view of Hong Kong's transformation, written for a general audience by some of the world's foremost scholars on the region."--BOOK JACKET.