Mark Hampton

Hong Kong and British culture, 1945-97

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A major contribution to the scholarship on British decolonisation, the cultural history of imperialism and British engagement with China. This highly original study places the emergence of contemporary Hong Kong in the wider, post-imperial setting.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 588g
• ISBN-13: 9780719099236
• ISBN-10: 0719099234
• Artikelnr.: 42802204

Autorenporträt

Mark Hampton is Associate Professor of History and Director of the Centre for Cinema Studies at Lingnan University

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Hong Kong and British culture: postwar contexts 2. The
discourse of unbridled capitalism in post-war Hong Kong 3. A man's
playground 4. The discourses of order and modernisation 5. Good governance
6. Chinese Britishness 7. Narratives of 1997 Epilogue: Colonial hangovers
Bibliography Index