Ho-Fung Hung

City on the Edge (eBook, PDF)

Hong Kong under Chinese Rule

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

A timely study of Hong Kong''s politics and society since the 1997 handover that explores the city''s long history of resistance.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Mai 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108888301
• Artikelnr.: 70909703

Autorenporträt

Ho-fung Hung is the Henry M. and Elizabeth P. Wiesenfeld Professor in Political Economy at Johns Hopkins University. The author of the award-winning The Protest with Chinese Characteristics (2011) and The China Boom (2015), he has been featured or cited in media outlets including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, BBC News, The Guardian and South China Morning Post.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. At Empires' Edge, 1197-1997
Part I. Capital: 3. The Making of China's Offshore Financial Center
4. Mainlandization of Business Monopoly
Part II. Empire: 5. 'One Country, Two Systems' Before Hong Kong
6. From Autonomy to Coercive Assimilation
Part III. Resistance: 7. The Class Politics of Democratic Movement
8. Hong Kong as a Political Consciousness
9. Conclusion: Endgame or New Beginning?