Global Hong Kong

Author : Cindy Wong,Gary McDonogh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317793762

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Global Hong Kong by Cindy Wong,Gary McDonogh Pdf

Global Hong Kong locates Hong Kong in the contemporary globalizing world. Hong Kong, as the authors argue, is an archetypal place, sitting at the intersection of East and West. It is also a major center for global capital flows and world trade. Moreover, in recent years, the island's global cultural power has become increasingly evident, as Hong Kong popular culture has spread to the West via a booming film industry. While looking at issues of postcoloniality, transnationalism and economic globalization, Wong and McDonogh focus on the new cultures and social formations of contemporary Hong Kong, as well as the transformation of the physical city itself. They also trace the new interconnections - economic, demographic, social and cultural - between Hong Kong and other parts of the worldthat have benn fostered by globalization. Books in this series look at how nations and regions across the world are navigating the tumultuous currents of globalization. Concise, descriptive, interdisciplinary, and theoretically informed, they serve as ideal introductions to the peoples and places of our increasingly globalized world.

Author : David R. Meyer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2000-05-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139427852

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Hong Kong as a Global Metropolis by David R. Meyer Pdf

Hong Kong has remained the global metropolis for Asia since its founding in the 1840s following the Opium Wars between Britain and China. David Meyer traces its vibrant history from the arrival of the foreign trading firms, when it was established as one of the leading Asian business centres, to its celebrated handover to China in 1997. Throughout this period, Hong Kong has been prominent as a pivotal meeting place of the Chinese and foreign social networks of capital and as such has been China's window on to the world economy, dominating other financial centers such as Singapore and Tokyo. Looking into the future, the author presents an optimistic view of Hong Kong in the twenty-first century, challenging those who predict its decline under Chinese rule. This accessible and broad-ranging look at the story of Hong Kong's success will interest anyone concerned with its past, present and future.

Author : Gerard A. Postiglione,James Tuck-Hong Tang
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781315503042

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Hong Kong's Reunion with China: The Global Dimensions by Gerard A. Postiglione,James Tuck-Hong Tang Pdf

The issues surrounding Hong Kong's global position and international links grow increasingly complex by the day as the process of Hong Kong's transformation from a British colony to a Chinese Special Administration Region unfolds. This volume addresses a number of questions relating to this process. How international is Hong Kong? What are its global and international dimensions? How important are these dimensions to its continued success? How will these dimensions change, especially beyond the sphere of economics? Is Hong Kong's internationalization, defined in terms of its willingness to embrace international values and its capacity to maintain its international presence, at risk? These questions are presented as they pertain to the changing situation; relations between mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong; the positions of Australia, Canada and the United States on Hong Kong; internalization of international legal values; Americanization vs. Asianization; linkages to the world through Guangdong; strategies to emigrate overseas, cultural internationalization; media internationalization and universities within the global economy.

Author : Robert Gottlieb,Simon Ng
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 471 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780262338875

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Global Cities by Robert Gottlieb,Simon Ng Pdf

How Los Angeles, Hong Kong, and China deal with such urban environmental issues as ports, goods movement, air pollution, water quality, transportation, and public space. Over the past four decades, Los Angeles, Hong Kong, and key urban regions of China have emerged as global cities—in financial, political, cultural, environmental, and demographic terms. In this book, Robert Gottlieb and Simon Ng trace the global emergence of these urban areas and compare their responses to a set of six urban environmental issues. These cities have different patterns of development: Los Angeles has been the quintessential horizontal city, the capital of sprawl; Hong Kong is dense and vertical; China's new megacities in the Pearl River Delta, created by an explosion in industrial development and a vast migration from rural to urban areas, combine the vertical and the horizontal. All three have experienced major environmental changes in a relatively short period of time. Gottlieb and Ng document how each has dealt with challenges posed by ports and the movement of goods, air pollution (Los Angeles, Hong Kong, and urban China are all notorious for their hazardous air quality), water supply (all three places are dependent on massive transfers of water) and water quality, the food system (from seed to table), transportation, and public and private space. Finally they discuss the possibility of change brought about by policy initiatives and social movements.

Author : Yan-leung Cheung,Yuk-shing Cheng,Chi-keung Woo
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317284772

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Hong Kong's Global Financial Centre and China's Development by Yan-leung Cheung,Yuk-shing Cheng,Chi-keung Woo Pdf

This book provides an overview of Hong Kong’s role as an international financial centre, focusing especially on how Hong Kong has contributed significantly, and continues to contribute significantly, to China’s economic development. It considers the importance of Hong Kong’s stock market in raising finance for Chinese companies, explores the potential of Hong Kong as an offshore financial centre, and discusses recent regulatory reforms. It concludes by assessing the prospects for Hong Kong’s continuing success as a global financial centre, and puts forward recommendations for policies which would help secure continuing success.

Author : Man-Kong Wong,Chi-Man Kwong
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789811628061

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Hong Kong History by Man-Kong Wong,Chi-Man Kwong Pdf

This book aims at providing an accessible introduction to and summary of the major themes of Hong Kong history that has been studied in the past decades. Each chapter also suggests a number of key historical figures and works that are essential for the understanding of a particular theme. However, the book is by no means merely a general survey of the recent studies of Hong Kong history; it tries to suggest that the best way to approach Hong Kong history is to put it firmly in its international context.

Author : Stephen Chiu,Tai-Lok Lui
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2009-06-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134600649

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Hong Kong by Stephen Chiu,Tai-Lok Lui Pdf

Hong Kong is a small city with a big reputation. As mainland China has become an 'economic powerhouse' Hong Kong has taken a route of development of its own, flourishing as an entrepot and a centre of commerce and finance for Chinese business, then as an industrial city and subsequently a regional and international financial centre. This volume examines the developmental history of Hong Kong, focusing on its rise to the status of a Chinese global city in the world economy. Chiu and Lui's analysis is distinct in its perspective of the development as an integrated process involving economic, political and social dimensions, and as such this insightful and original book will be a core text on Hong Kong society for students.

Author : Grace L K Leung
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351655019

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Innovative and Creative Industries in Hong Kong by Grace L K Leung Pdf

The experience of Hong Kong’s innovative and creative industries and the challenges they face serves as an important case study for other Chinese and Asian cities that are actively developing their innovative and creative industries in the era of globalization. The return of sovereignty over Hong Kong back to China in 1997 has led to both collaboration and competition between the two places in innovative and creative sectors for the Greater China and Asian Regions. Hong Kong has remained unique in spite of the integration, but she has to strike a delicate balance between being simultaneously a Chinese and an international city. This book looks at different innovative and creative industries, such as international art and culture exhibition, innovative technology, digital entertainment, TV and movies, as well as government policy for innovative and creative industries, particularly the changing competitive landscape brought about by the latest Great Bay Area development. Drawing insights from cultural history, innovation economics, cultural policy studies, and cultural geography, this book explores the opportunities and challenges of Hong Kong's innovative and creative industries, in particular after the change of sovereignty in 1997. It demonstrates that the city’s legacy, and heavy government input in capital, do not guarantee their sustainable development. This is a book not only for policymakers or academics interested in innovative and creative industries but also to students contemplating a career in these areas in Hong Kong, the Greater China and the Asian Region.

Author : Stephen Wing-kai Chiu,Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Hong Kong (China)
ISBN : 0415220114

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Hong Kong by Stephen Wing-kai Chiu,Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom Pdf

Author : Peter E. Hamilton
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231545709

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Made in Hong Kong by Peter E. Hamilton Pdf

Between 1949 and 1997, Hong Kong transformed from a struggling British colonial outpost into a global financial capital. Made in Hong Kong delivers a new narrative of this metamorphosis, revealing Hong Kong both as a critical engine in the expansion and remaking of postwar global capitalism and as the linchpin of Sino-U.S. trade since the 1970s. Peter E. Hamilton explores the role of an overlooked transnational Chinese elite who fled to Hong Kong amid war and revolution. Despite losing material possessions, these industrialists, bankers, academics, and other professionals retained crucial connections to the United States. They used these relationships to enmesh themselves and Hong Kong with the U.S. through commercial ties and higher education. By the 1960s, Hong Kong had become a manufacturing powerhouse supplying American consumers, and by the 1970s it was the world’s largest sender of foreign students to American colleges and universities. Hong Kong’s reorientation toward U.S. international leadership enabled its transplanted Chinese elites to benefit from expanding American influence in Asia and positioned them to act as shepherds to China’s reengagement with global capitalism. After China’s reforms accelerated under Deng Xiaoping, Hong Kong became a crucial node for China’s export-driven development, connecting Chinese labor with the U.S. market. Analyzing untapped archival sources from around the world, this book demonstrates why we cannot understand postwar globalization, China’s economic rise, or today’s Sino-U.S. trade relationship without centering Hong Kong.

Author : Gary W. McDonogh,Cindy H. Wong
Publisher : Globalizing Regions (Hardcover
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0415947693

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Global Hong Kong by Gary W. McDonogh,Cindy H. Wong Pdf

Global Hong Kong locates Hong Kong in the contemporary globalizing world. Wong and McDonogh focus on the new cultures and social formations of contemporary Hong Kong, as well as the transformation of the physical city itself.

Author : Chin-Chuan Lee,Joseph Man Chan,Zhongdang Pan,Clement Y K So
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0791488160

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Global Media Spectacle by Chin-Chuan Lee,Joseph Man Chan,Zhongdang Pan,Clement Y K So Pdf

Focusing on the global media coverage of Hong Kong's transfer from Britain to China, Global Media Spectacle explores how the world media plan, operate, compete, and produce a historical record during significant global events. The authors interviewed seventy-six print and television reporters from the United States, Britain, the People's Republic of China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Australia, Canada, and Japan to delve into the revealing world of writing first drafts of history from reporters' vantage points. Punctuated with witty and incisive examples, the book provides a useful description of contestation and alliance, themes and variations, and convergence and divergence between and within various blocs of nations.

Author : Agnes S. Ku,Ngai Pun
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2004-08-05
Category : History
ISBN : 020340033X

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Remaking Citizenship in Hong Kong by Agnes S. Ku,Ngai Pun Pdf

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.

Author : Priscilla Roberts,Odd Arne Westad
Publisher : Springer
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319512501

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China, Hong Kong, and the Long 1970s: Global Perspectives by Priscilla Roberts,Odd Arne Westad Pdf

This book explores the forces that impelled China, the world’s largest socialist state, to make massive changes in its domestic and international stance during the long 1970s. Fourteen distinguished scholars investigate the special, perhaps crucial part that the territory of Hong Kong played in encouraging and midwifing China’s relationship with the non-Communist world. The Long 1970s were the years when China moved dramatically and decisively toward much closer relations with the non-Communist world. In the late 1970s, China also embarked on major economic reforms, designed to win it great power status by the early twenty-first centuries. The volume addresses the long-term implications of China’s choices for the outcome of the Cold War and in steering the global international outlook toward free-market capitalism. Decisions made in the 1970s are key to understanding the nature and policies of the Chinese state today and the worldview of current Chinese leaders.

Author : Kam Louie
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2010-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789888028412

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Hong Kong Culture by Kam Louie Pdf

"Does Hong Kong culture still matter? This informative and interdisciplinary volume proves unmistakably so. It stands as an essential Hong Kong reader, a rich resource not only for those specialized in Hong Kong culture and history but also for students, teachers, and researchers interested in cosmopolitanism, postcolonial conditions, as well as cultural globalization."-Laikwan Pang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong "A very timely, ambitious and fascinating book. The essays are based on solid research, and full of theoretical or analytical insights illustrating the complexity of social and cultural life in Hong Kong. In addition to offering excellent essays on Hong Kong cinema, the book also surveys alternative performance art and documentary, which are undoubtedly the least researched aspects of Hong Kong's cultural scene."-Law Wing Sang, Lingnan University Hong Kong as a world city draws on a rich variety of foundational "texts" in film, fiction, architecture and other forms of visual culture. The city has been a cultural fault-line for centuries ù a translation space where Chinese-ness is interpreted for "Westerners" and Western-ness is translated for Chinese. Though constantly refreshed by its Chinese roots and global influences, this hub of Cantonese culture has flourished along cosmopolitan lines to build a modern, outward-looking character. Successfully managing this perpetual instability helps make Hong Kong a postmodern stepping-stone city, and helps make its citizens such prosperous and durable survivors in the modern world. This volume of essays engages many fields of cultural achievement. Several pieces discuss the tensions of English, closely associated with a colonial past, yet undeniably the key to Hong Kong's future. Hong Kong provides a vital point of contact, where cultures truly meet and a cosmopolitan traveler can feel at home and leave a sturdy mark. Contributors include John Carroll, Carolyn Cartier, David Clarke, Elaine Ho, Douglas Kerr, Michael Ingham, C. J.W.-L. Wee, Chu Yiu-Wai, Gina Marchetti, Esther M.K. Cheung, Pheng Cheah, Chris Berry, and Giorgio Biancorosso. Kam Louie is dean of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Hong Kong.