Chung-Kin Tsang

Homeownership in Hong Kong (eBook, ePUB)

House Buying as Hope Mechanism

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book studies the cultural framework of the connections between homeownership and social instability in Hong Kong.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 148
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000395389
• Artikelnr.: 61462912

Autorenporträt

Chung-kin Tsang attained PhD in Communication Studies from UNC at Chapel Hill. His research interests include cultural sociology and cultural studies, urban and housing studies, economic culture and discourses, and popular culture in the East Asian context. He now works as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Sociology at the Hong Kong Shue Yan University.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Financialization and hope: the case of Hong Kong
3. Hope in the tunnel (1970s-1990s)
4. Transformation after 1997
5. Hope through waiting for the coming crisis (2010s)
6. Going beyond active and passive hope