Agnes S. Ku (ed.)

Remaking Citizenship in Hong Kong

Community, nation and the global city
Herausgeber: Ku, Agnes S.; Pun, Ngai

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Produktbeschreibung

Hong Kong has been undergoing considerable changes since its postcolonial independence. This book provides a detailed comparative account of the development of citizenship and civil society in Hong Kong from its time as a British colony to its current status as a special autonomous region of China. Subjects covered include immigration, race, gender, homosexuality, the law and resistance. The book also compares citizenship and civil society in Hong Kong with a number of other East Asian countries.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. August 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 442g
• ISBN-13: 9780415396721
• ISBN-10: 0415396727
• Artikelnr.: 21775184

Autorenporträt

Agnes S. Ku is Associate Professor of Social Science at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Ngai Pun is Assistant Professor of Social Science at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Tables Acknowledgments Foreword Introduction 1. Introduction:
Remaking Citizenship in Hong Kong Part 1: State, Institutions, and
Ideologies 2. Citizenship as a Form of Governance: A Historical Overview 3.
Welfare Good or Colonial Citizenship? A Case Study of Early Resettlement
Housing 4. Civic Education and the Making of Deformed Citizenry: From
British Colony to Chinese Sar 5. The Making of 'Ideal Citizen' in Schooling
Processes: Gender, Differences and Inequalities Part 2: Migration,
Belonging, and Exclusion 6. Politics of Incorporation and Exclusion:
Citizenship and Immigration Issues 7. Hong Kong as a Semi-Ethnocracy:
'Race', Migration, and Citizenship in a Globalized Region 8. Lived
Citizenship and Lower Class Chinese Migrant Women: A Global City without
its People Part 3: Civil Society, Resistance, and Participation 9.
Negotiating Law, Rights, and Civil Autonomy: From the Colonial to the
Post-Colonial Regimes 10. En-Gendering Citizenship 11. (Post-)Identity
Politics and Anti-Normalization: (Homo)Sexual Rights Movement 12. In Search
of Communal Economic Subject - Reflections on a Local Community Currency
Project 13. One Country, Three Systems? State, Nation, and Civil Society in
the Making of Citizenship in the Chinese Triangle of Mainland-Taiwan-Hong
Kong Index Contributors