Studying Hong Kong 20 Years Of Political Economic And Social Developments

Author : Kong Tuan Yuen,Lim Tai Wei
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789813223561

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Studying Hong Kong: 20 Years Of Political, Economic And Social Developments by Kong Tuan Yuen,Lim Tai Wei Pdf

This book captures the essence of Hong Kong's development in the past two decades from 1997 to 2017. It is broken into four parts -- economics, society, politics and culture. Hong Kong's role remains as a gateway for global trading houses, businessmen, investors and traders. Hong Kong continues to be an open economy and has stuck to free trade policies, as one of the former four successful "tiger economies" in East Asia. In the political and international relations realm, this book examines Hong Kong's relations with China, other major powers and the world at large. It also covers domestic developments, including legal developments. Other chapters in the book examine cultural developments in Hong Kong from specific case studies of iconic animation character to trans-boundary popularity of Hong Kong popular culture in China. With contributions from Alvin CAMBA, Henry CHAN, Yoshihisa GODO, Wing Lok HUNG, Sean KING, Tuan Yuen KONG, Tai Wei LIM, Carol MA, Samantha MA, Parama SINHA PALIT, Zhengqi PAN, SIM Japanese Culture and Gaming Society, Hiroshi TAKAHASHI, Ghim Yeow TAN, Katherine TSENG, Elim WONG, Kai Keat YEO and Chun Wang YEUNG, this book provides a snapshot of Hong Kong in the past twenty years and is a fascinating read. Contents: Readership: This book is intended for students as well as professionals and the general public interested in understanding Hong Kong culture, history and politics. Keywords: Hong Kong;China;East Asia;;1997;Economic;PoliticsReview: "Hong Kong is often referred to as a crossroad of the East and West. However, Hong Kong is not merely an intersection of China and the Western world, but has unique history and culture. When I started learning Cantonese in Tokyo, many other students who were similarly motivated were from an older generation than me, and interested in Hong Kong films. This is proof that Hong Kong shown on the screen attracted the Japanese audience as a unique city. Hong Kong has been depicted as a city that is 'exotic' and 'chaotic' in popular media in Japan and the West. Of course, it is certain that orientalism of Japan and the West is present. However, what promotes such imagination and description seems to be the 'freedom' that Hong Kong possesses. I am particularly interested in how this free and somehow chaotic atmosphere of Hong Kong, 20 years after the handover of sovereignty, will generate new culture and evoke our new imagination. I recommend this publication to readers who want to better understand Hong Kong in all its facets and from different perspectives." Masakazu MATSUOKA Hitotsubashi University Key Features: The book is timely as it deals with a topic that is in the news in 2017. The future of Hong Kong has been debated and scrutinized intensely since the 2014 Occupy Central and 2012 National Education protests. Since then, Hong Kong has been forging a new relationship with a new administration in Beijing It has regional and international implications. Hong Kong's "One Country Two Systems" served as a model for possible reunification with Taiwan. Regionally, observers are using Hong Kong as a barometer for the future of Chinese governance. Internationally, Hong Kong's international financial center makes it an important node in the globalized world Very often, Hong Kong's popular culture is left out of academic analyses on the city state. There are macro and micro case studies examined by different scholars in this publication and they explain the popularity of Hong Kong popular cultural characters like the animation McDull and also classic cop films that resonate with an East Asian and even international audience The diversity of scholars in this volume makes

Author : Tai-Wei Lim,Wen Xin Li
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : POLITICAL SCIENCE
ISBN : 9813223553

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Studying Hong Kong by Tai-Wei Lim,Wen Xin Li Pdf

Author : Tzong-Biau Lin,Lily Xiao Hong Lee,Udo Ernst Simonis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351715027

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Hong Kong: Economic, Social, and Political Studies in Development, with a Comprehensive Bibliography by Tzong-Biau Lin,Lily Xiao Hong Lee,Udo Ernst Simonis Pdf

This title was first published in 1979:

Author : Brian C.H. Fong,Tai-Lok Lui
Publisher : Springer
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319513737

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Hong Kong 20 Years after the Handover by Brian C.H. Fong,Tai-Lok Lui Pdf

This book examines the socio-political conflicts which have arisen since Hong Kong’s return to China and confronts the fundamental problems in the design of the One Country, Two Systems (OCTS) Model. It considers not only the issue of democratization, but also the institutional fractures in the executive-dominant political system and the disconnection between the executive and the legislature. It describes the drastic changes which have affected social mobilization and political activism in Hong Kong, as well as the pattern of interaction between the government and civil society. This edited volume brings together a team of cutting-edge researchers to examine the operation of the One Country, Two Systems (OCTS) Model in Hong Kong over the past 20 years. The discussion and analysis offered by the contributors will cast light on social and political tensions and conflicts that will continue to unfold in the coming years. This timely account, published on the 20th anniversary of the handover, will be a valuable read for students and scholars of Chinese and East Asian studies.

Author : Grace Ngai,Daniel T.L. Shek
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789811924378

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Service-Learning Capacity Enhancement in Hong Kong Higher Education by Grace Ngai,Daniel T.L. Shek Pdf

This book provides an in-depth, multi-faceted look into capacity building for service-learning, using the case of the higher education landscape in Hong Kong. Service-learning has been proven to be an effective pedagogy for the holistic development of students, as well as promotion of their well-being. It also attempts to promote the well-being of the service recipients and the community. While service-learning is becoming increasingly popular in many higher educational institutions around the world, the learning gains that can be attained from service-learning are only as good as the learning experience allows, and poorly-developed or motivated service-learning may potentially do adverse harm to students and the community. This book reinforces the imperative to enhance the capacity of the institution, teachers, students and community partners by exploring a diverse range of methods for achieving capacity building among different stakeholders. Examples of the methods explored include formal course-based professional development, scale development, action research, and communities of practice. Furthermore, the book includes a series of detailed, qualitative case studies that are aimed at embodying good practice, unpacking “what matters” from service-learning. Aa a useful resource for scholars and educators who are passionate about holistic youth leadership development, this book is also relevant to researchers in the intersection between well-being and higher education.

Author : Vincent Tin Sing Law,Ben Yuk Fai Fong
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789811930614

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Ageing with Dignity in Hong Kong and Asia by Vincent Tin Sing Law,Ben Yuk Fai Fong Pdf

This book advocates the application of holistic and humanistic approaches in elderly care and services to achieve the goal of ageing with dignity in Hong Kong and Asia. It responds to the needs of an increasing ageing population that has to deal with related health needs in long-term care, community health and social services, particularly for chronic conditions and psychosocial support. The book consists of three sections on policy and development of aged care, holistic and humanistic care for older adults, and capacity building for ageing with dignity, respectively. Topics include the latest initiatives in aged care, appropriate services and delivery models, lifestyle modification, psychosocial and environmental considerations, professional development, technologies, and social capital. The chapters review and discuss these issues within a global context, illustrated by examples from Asian countries, underpinned by locally based empirical research. Contributors include academics and practitioners from diversified professional backgrounds that include medicine, nursing, pharmacy, traditional Chinese medicine, dietetics, and allied health. The book traverses into territories in the social sciences, life sciences, and sports sciences, while also touching on areas of business and administration, hospitality, law, public policy, and information technology in connection with public health. The contents serve as a topical reference for tertiary studies in ageing and related disciplines such as well-being and are also useful to policymakers, community and public health practitioners, health executives and interns working in areas of policy and practice pertinent to care development, health delivery models, planning, quality, ethics, better health promotion, professional training, and monitoring for older adults.

Author : Tzong-Biau Lin,Rance P. L. Lee,Udo Ernst Simonis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Hong Kong
ISBN : 0712909427

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Hong Kong by Tzong-Biau Lin,Rance P. L. Lee,Udo Ernst Simonis Pdf

Author : Chinyong Liow, Joseph,Liu, Hong,Xue, Gong
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781789908718

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Research Handbook on the Belt and Road Initiative by Chinyong Liow, Joseph,Liu, Hong,Xue, Gong Pdf

This timely Research Handbook investigates the radically transformative impact of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), addressing key questions regarding its economic, political and strategic consequences: what does the Chinese government hope to achieve with the BRI? How have recipient states responded? And what are its potential opportunities and risks?

Author : Tai-Lok Lui,Stephen W. K.. Chui
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0367580608

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Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Hong Kong by Tai-Lok Lui,Stephen W. K.. Chui Pdf

When Britain and China negotiated the future of Hong Kong in the early 1980s, their primary concern was about maintaining the status quo. The rise of China in the last thirty years, however, has reshaped the Beijing-Hong Kong dynamic as new tensions and divisions have emerged. Thus, post-1997 Hong Kong is a case about a global city's democratic transition within an authoritarian state. The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Hong Kong introduces readers to these key social, economic and political developments. Bringing together the work of leading researchers in the field, it focuses on the process of transition from a British colony to a Special Administrative Region under China's sovereign rule. Organized thematically, the sections covered include: 'One Country, Two Systems' in practice, Governance in post-colonial Hong Kong, Social mobilization, The changing social fabric of Hong Kong society, Socio-economic development and regional integration, The future of Hong Kong. This book provides a thorough introduction to Hong Kong today. As such, it will be invaluable to students and scholars of Hong Kong's politics, culture and society. It will also be of interest to those studying Chinese political development and the impact of China's rise more generally. Book jacket.

Author : Tzong-Biau Lin,Lily Xiao Hong Lee,Udo Ernst Simonis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351715010

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Hong Kong: Economic, Social, and Political Studies in Development, with a Comprehensive Bibliography by Tzong-Biau Lin,Lily Xiao Hong Lee,Udo Ernst Simonis Pdf

This title was first published in 1979:

Author : Matthew Roberts
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350190474

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Memory and Modern British Politics by Matthew Roberts Pdf

This edited collection explores absence, presence and remembrance in British political culture and memory studies. Comprehensive in its scope, it covers the entire modern period, bringing together the 19th and 20th centuries as well as Britain, Ireland and the Atlantic World. As the first comparative and in-depth study to explore the central and contested place of memory and the invention of tradition in modern British politics, chapters include memorialisation, statue-mania, anniversaries and on the wider impact and invoking of 'dead generations'. In doing so, this book provides a new, exciting and accessible way of engaging with the history of British political culture.

Author : Tai Wei Lim
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789811226205

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Women Hold Up Half The Sky: The Political-economic And Socioeconomic Narratives Of Women In China by Tai Wei Lim Pdf

This volume will look into some macro factors that have an impact on gender conceptualizations in China. First, China is a highly-centralized state with a one-party political system that is also an authoritarian strongman regime. Thus, policies (including those related to gender) from the center are promulgated centripetally to provinces, cities, towns, villages, and local areas effectively.In terms of policy-making, the Chinese government noted that they have strengthened the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) guide for women's work, enacted/upgraded rights protection law in the National People's Congress (NPC), actualized mechanisms for women's cause in the Chinese People's Political Conservative Conference (CPPCC), streamlined work systems for effective implementation of national gender equality policies, and augmented the Women's Federation as an intermediary between the Communist Party of China (CPC), the state, and all Chinese women.As productive forces, Chinese women in the socialist era were exemplary models of mothers and career women who treated family life and work as equally important priorities. They were upper middle class to high net worth individuals who showed their successes in juggling both as objects of moral suasion for other Chinese women in state-led publicity. Some of them were touted by the state as ideal modern Chinese women in state media, moral suasion campaigns, and/or propaganda.

Author : Leo F. Goodstadt
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014-12-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789888208227

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Poverty in the Midst of Affluence by Leo F. Goodstadt Pdf

Hong Kong is among the richest cities in the world. Yet over the past 15 years, living conditions for the average family have deteriorated despite a robust economy, ample budget surpluses, and record labour productivity. Successive governments have been reluctant to invest in services for the elderly, the disabled, the long-term sick, and the poor, while education has become more elitist. The political system has helped to entrench a mistaken consensus that social spending is a threat to financial stability and economic prosperity. In this trenchant attack on government mismanagement, Leo Goodstadt traces how officials have created a ‘new poverty’ in Hong Kong and argues that their misguided policies are both a legacy of the colonial era and a deliberate choice by modern governments, and not the result of economic crises. This provocative book will be essential reading for anyone wishing to understand why poverty returned to Hong Kong in this century. The book has been thoroughly revised and updated for this new, paperback edition. ‘Leo Goodstadt has identified the New Poor as those made vulnerable through diminishing access to essential services and opportunities. The culprits are misguided policies, and the callous and uncaring decisions of those in power. This compelling critique carries weight and demands a response.’ —Christine Fang, Former Chief Executive of The Hong Kong Council of Social Service ‘This is a critical reflection on Hong Kong’s path of social development and a most discerning analysis of the Third World mentality espoused by the government and the business community in the area of social welfare.’ —Lui Tai-lok, Chair Professor of Hong Kong Studies, The Hong Kong Institute of Education ‘Welfare spending was like “pouring sand into the sea to reclaim land”, thought one Chief Executive. Governments restrained social spending based on that skewed view . . . This book is meticulously researched and painfully insightful. It is a masterly chronicle of Hong Kong’s social welfare policy.’ —Anna Wu, Non-Official Member of the Executive Council, HKSAR

Author : Meng U Ieong
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000082135

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Macau 20 Years after the Handover by Meng U Ieong Pdf

This book outlines the major social and political changes in the city of Macau during its first 20 years under the "One Country, Two Systems" arrangement with Mainland China. Despite the long-standing image of Macau as Asia’s Las Vegas, it is a city that has changed a great deal since its return to China. Equally, despite this return, it retains a unique social, economic and political character, distinct both from the Mainland of China and from its larger neighbour, Hong Kong. The chapters in this book examine the detail of this uniqueness from a range of perspectives, including the gambling industry, police-society relations, media usage patterns and protest movements. Analysing the state of affairs 20 years after the city’s return to China, they also attempt to anticipate its future trajectory. This is a valuable guide for scholars of Asian, and particularly Chinese, urban politics that will be of interest to academics and students looking to better understand the particularities of Macau.

Author : Benjamin K. P. Leung,Teresa Y. C. Wong
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 729 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Economic development
ISBN : LCCN:95151867

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25 Years of Social and Economic Development in Hong Kong by Benjamin K. P. Leung,Teresa Y. C. Wong Pdf