Living In Hong Kong

Author : Iain Leighton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1659700809

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Footprints Left in Hong Kong by Iain Leighton Pdf

Iain Leighton's first book describes British expatriate life in Hong Kong in the 1950s and 1960s, based on his memories. There are over 30 chapters, covering subjects like the British military presence; the riots of 1966 and 1967; recreational clubs; British schools; typhoons; weekends in the New Territories; Chinese customs and superstitions and visits to beaches for picnics. Iain Leighton describes his memories from this time: "Dire poverty for the refugees affected me as a child, I was aware of acute poverty for the Chinese refugees when I was a boy. Despite the relatively small number of expats (circa 60,000), the atmosphere remained very British and colonial. Colonial expat families were well dressed and attending church and Sunday school was normal. People in their thousands took jobs as civil servants with the Hong Kong Government to get away from the U.K. The U.K. still had food rationing for about seven years post-1945. Hong Kong, on the other hand, never had food rationing. Salaries were higher than in the U.K.; living in Hong Kong was cheap compared to dismal, tired U.K. Hong Kong was a wonderful place to live and bring up your children."

Author : Rachel Wright
Publisher : How To Books
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-05
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781848036109

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Live and Work In Hong Kong by Rachel Wright Pdf

Whatever your reasons for planning to live and work in Hong Kong, this comprehensive guide will tell you all you need to know to make the most of your time in this vibrant and challenging city. Organised into three sections: Living, Working, and Leisure, this book includes up to date information and well-informed opinion on: * The kind of lifestyle you can expect to enjoy in Hong Kong * The cost of living * Finding accommodation, whether short term or to buy or rent *Having and raising children in Hong Kong *Shopping for food or luxuries - Working and volunteering *Teaching English *Sporting events, special interest groups and the local arts scene *Travelling and places to visit *Entertainment and nightlife

Author : James L. Watson,Rubie Sharon Watson
Publisher : Chinese University of Hong Kong Press
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015061318054

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Village Life in Hong Kong by James L. Watson,Rubie Sharon Watson Pdf

This book is a collection of revised articles based on the authors'fieldwork on two villages in Yuen Long, a rural district of Hong Kong. It presents the authors'observations and their interpretation of life in a southern Chinese village under the process of urbanization.

Author : Jules Brown
Publisher : Rough Guides
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Hong Kong (China)
ISBN : 185828872X

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Hong Kong & Macau by Jules Brown Pdf

This resource includes full details of Hong Kong harbour, its shopping and nightlife districts, traditional sites and off-the-beaten track areas of the New Territories and outlying islands. A history and a cultural guide is included, as well as places to eat, drink and sleep on every budget. Background information on post-handover politics and features on festivals, feng shui and Chinese astrology are also included.

Author : Rachel Helen Wright
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2005-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 184528013X

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Living and Working in Hong Kong by Rachel Helen Wright Pdf

This book is for anyone planning to live and work in Hong Kong. You may be a young single expat planning to come to Hong Kong to work and play, or a couple with a young family needing to address safety, health and education issues on top of everyday living, or people looking to put away savings for their retirement. The book is organized into three main sections: Living, Working and Leisure, and gives flavorful descriptions of what to expect from life in Hong Kong. It covers all you need to know to make the most of your time there. Each chapter includes up-to-date information, and well-informed opinion and comment. Quotes drawn from interviews with a broad cross-section of the expatriate community in Hong Kong provide useful insights into life there and invest the book with the color and authenticity of personal experience. CONTENTS: Part One - Living in Hong Kong 1. The reality of life in Hong Kong, 2. The cost of living, 3. Arriving at the airport, 4. Getting around, 5. Accommodation, 6. Food, 7. Shopping, 8. Having and raising children, 9. Health, 10. Money, 11. Society, 12. Marriage and bereavement Part two - Working in Hong Kong 13. Work, 14. Professional women in Hong Kong, 15. English language teaching, 16. Professional development, 17. Volunteering Part Three - Leisure in Hong Kong 18. The local arts scene, 19. Sports, 20. Interest groups, 21. Classes, 22. Places to visit, 23. The great outdoors, 24. Travel, 25. Bars, nightclubs and after-hours entertainment, 26. Sex in the city.

Author : Ambrose Y. C. King,Rance P. L. Lee
Publisher : Chinese University Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : History
ISBN : 9622013376

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Social Life and Development in Hong Kong by Ambrose Y. C. King,Rance P. L. Lee Pdf

The papers in this volume, prepared by social scientists with different specializations, address selected aspects of Hong Kong's post-War development.

Author : Wing Chung Ho,Florence Padovani
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000079289

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Living in the Margins in Mainland China, Hong Kong and India by Wing Chung Ho,Florence Padovani Pdf

With a range of case studies from Asia, this book sheds light on empirical realizations of marginality in a globalized context using first-hand original research. In the late 2000s, the financial crisis witnessed the fragility of high levels of market integration and the vulnerability of globalisation. Since then, the world seems to have entered an epoch of anxiety featuring populism with varying degrees of protectionism and nationalism. What is the nature of this populist mood as a backlash against globalisation? How do people feel about it and act upon it? Why should specific intellectual attention be paid to the increasingly marginalised by the recent macroscopic structural changes? These are the questions addressed by the contributors of this book, illustrated with specific cases from mainland China, Hong Kong and India, all of which have undergone substantial populist or nationalist movements since 2010. A valuable resource for sociologists looking to understand the impacts of globalization, especially those with a particular interest in Asia.

Author : Janine Scott
Publisher : Benchmark Education Company
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781616725860

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Living in Hong Kong by Janine Scott Pdf

Author : Nicole Chabot
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 988161385X

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Street Life Hong Kong by Nicole Chabot Pdf

Hong Kong is famous for its vibrant, busy street scene. This book introduces us to two dozen people who provide its outdoor colour. Here you will meet a flower seller, a street musician and a tram driver; a bouncer, a shoe shiner and a gas canister delivery man; a security guard and a lifeguard; a man who makes a living climbing bamboo scaffolding, and a woman who ferries visitors around the harbour on a sampan. Among the interviewees are also mainlanders, and ethnic minorities including those from the Philippines, Africa and India, reflecting the diverse ethnic makeup of today's Hong Kong. These are the working people who are always seen but rarely heard, and in this book they tell their life stories in their own words. Sharp black-and-white portraits immerse the reader in the dynamic streetscape of Hong Kong.

Author : Betty Yung
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2008-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789622099043

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Hong Kong's Housing Policy by Betty Yung Pdf

This book examines housing policy in Hong Kong using a new and unique interdisciplinary approach – combining the philosophical discussion on social justice with policy and housing studies. It considers both Western and Chinese concepts of social justice, and investigates the role of social justice in a public policy such as housing. As a philosophical treatise on social administration, the book will be of interest to philosophy, public administration, and housing studies academics and students of all countries. Since Hong Kong represents a very special case with massive governmental intervention into the housing market, housing professionals and policy makers will find the analysis of Hong Kong's housing policy useful.

Author : F. J. F. Tingay
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Hong Kong (China)
ISBN : LCCN:70286356

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Living in Hong Kong by F. J. F. Tingay Pdf

Author : Richard C. Bush
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780815728146

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Hong Kong in the Shadow of China by Richard C. Bush Pdf

A close-up look at the struggle for democracy in Hong Kong. Hong Kong in the Shadow of China is a reflection on the recent political turmoil in Hong Kong during which the Chinese government insisted on gradual movement toward electoral democracy and hundreds of thousands of protesters occupied major thoroughfares to push for full democracy now. Fueling this struggle is deep public resentment over growing inequality and how the political system—established by China and dominated by the local business community—reinforces the divide been those who have profited immensely and those who struggle for basics such as housing. Richard Bush, director of the Brookings Institution’s Center on East Asia Policy Studies, takes us inside the demonstrations and the demands of the demonstrators and then pulls back to critically explore what Hong Kong and China must do to ensure both economic competitiveness and good governance and the implications of Hong Kong developments for United States policy.

Author : Janice Y. K. Lee
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780698404939

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The Expatriates by Janice Y. K. Lee Pdf

The inspiration for Expats, a new series starring Nicole Kidman coming soon to Prime Video. “Devastating and heartwarming, and exquisite in every way, this is a book you’ll fall deeply in love with and never want to put down.” —Kevin Kwan, author of Crazy Rich Asians From the New York Times bestselling author of The Piano Teacher, a searing novel of marriage, motherhood, and the search for connection far from home. In the glittering city of Hong Kong, expats arrive daily for myriad reasons—to find or lose themselves in a foreign place, and to forget or remake themselves far from home. Amidst this hothouse atmosphere, a tragic incident causes three American women’s lives to collide in ways that will rewrite every assumption of their privileged world: Mercy, a young Korean American and recent Columbia graduate, once again finds herself compromised and adrift, trying to start her life anew; Hilary, a wealthy housewife, is haunted by her struggle to have a child, hoping to save her uncertain marriage; meanwhile, Margaret, once the enviable mother of three, tries to negotiate an existence that has become utterly unrecognizable after a catastrophic event. Faced with unthinkable choices, these three women form a profound connection that defies the norms of the sequestered community—finding in each other a strength borne of need, forgiveness, and ultimately hope. Atmospheric and utterly compelling, The Expatriates showcases Lee’s exceptional talent as one of our keenest observers of women’s inner lives.

Author : Cecilia L. Chu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2022-04-19
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780429796784

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Building Colonial Hong Kong by Cecilia L. Chu Pdf

In the 1880s, Hong Kong was a booming colonial entrepôt, with many European, especially British, residents living in palatial mansions in the Mid-Levels and at the Peak. But it was also a ruthless migrant city where Chinese workers shared bedspaces in the crowded tenements of Taipingshan. Despite persistent inequality, Hong Kong never ceased to attract different classes of sojourners and immigrants, who strived to advance their social standing by accumulating wealth, especially through land and property speculation. In this engaging and extensively illustrated book, Cecilia L. Chu retells the ‘Hong Kong story’ by tracing the emergence of its ‘speculative landscape’ from the late nineteenth to the early decades of the twentieth century. Through a number of pivotal case studies, she highlights the contradictory logic of colonial urban development: the encouragement of native investment that supported a laissez-faire housing market, versus the imperative to segregate the populations in a hierarchical, colonial spatial order. Crucially, she shows that the production of Hong Kong’s urban landscapes was not a top-down process, but one that evolved through ongoing negotiations between different constituencies with vested interests in property. Further, her study reveals that the built environment was key to generating and attaining individual and collective aspirations in a racially divided, highly unequal, but nevertheless upwardly mobile, modernizing colonial city.

Author : Rebecca Lai-Har Chiu
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2006-10-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9622098037

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Professional Housing Management Practices in Hong Kong by Rebecca Lai-Har Chiu Pdf

Professional housing management is of growing importance in Hong Kong and the "Hong Kong management model" is adopted in many neighbouring high-density cities. However, there has been by far no literature on the subject of housing management practices in Hong Kong. This book is therefore crucial in understanding how housing management makes significant contributions to the safety, viability, liveability and vibrancy of our high-density and high-rise environment. Since the late 1980s, housing education in this city has developed by leaps and bounds. A recent study found that over 3,000 junior practitioners would be seeking professional training or further study for career advancement. This book is an indispensable aid to self-study or taught courses.