From a British to a Chinese colony? Hong Kong before and after the 1997 handover
By: edited by Gary Chi-hung Luk
Series: China research monograph -- 75; China research monographs -- no. 75.
Publisher: Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9781557291769
Subjects: History; Social conditions; Transfer of Hong Kong's Sovereignty (1997) fast (OCoLC)fst01355152
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : straddling the handover : colonialism and decolonization in British and PRC Hong Kong / Gary Chi-hung Luk; title: Part I. British colonial legacies; title: The Comprador System in nineteenth century Hong Kong / Kaori Abe; title: Government and language in Hong Kong / Sonia Lam-Knott; title: A ruling idea of the time? The rule of law in pre- and post-1997 Hong Kong / Carol A.G. Jones; title: Part II. Hong Kong, Britain, and China(s); title: From Cold War warrior to moral guardian : film censorship in British Hong Kong / Zardas Shuk-man Lee; title: The roots of regionalism : water management in postwar Hong Kong / David Clayton; title: Economic relations between the mainland and Hong Kong, an 'irreplacable' financial center / Leo F. Goodstadt; title: Part III. Decolonization, retrocession, and recolonization : new perspectives; title: At the edge of empire : the Eurasians, Portuguese and Baghdadi Jewish communities in British Hong Kong / Felicia Yap; title: Reunification discourse in Chinese nationalisms / Law Wing Sang; title: From citizens back to subjects : constructing national belonging in Hong Kong's national education centre / Kevin Carrico