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Author : Robert Edward Mitchell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015041801914
Author : Chi Kuen Lau
Publisher : Chinese University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9622017932
After ruling Hong Kong for 155 years, what did the British leave behind when they withdrew at midnight on 30 June 1997? C. K. Lau answers this question for the lay reader. Whether you are a long-time resident or merely a newcomer to the territory, Hong Kong's Colonial Legacy promises to deepen your understanding of this Pearl of the Orient. Questions this book tackles include: (1) What is the attitude of Hong Kong Chinese towards British rule and the resumption of Chinese sovereignty? (2) Why have most of them failed to master English despite a century and a half of colonial rule? (3) What is the future of the common law after 1997? (4) What do Hong Kong's leaders mean by executive-led government? (5) What is Hong Kong's recipe for economic success? (6) What is the future of press freedom in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region?
Author : Benjamin K.P. Leung
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351751797
This title was first published in 2003. Hong Kong is a society of contrasts and paradoxes. The city has a contrasting and yet fluid intermingling of social and cultural images - east and west, local and colonial, modern and traditional, extravagant and frugal. In this volume, the editor has selected essays dealing with a variety of aspects of Hong Kong including change and development, culture and identity, trends in political development, economy and society, social issues and social policy.
Author : Robert Edward Mitchell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : IND:30000053922013
Author : Felia Allum,Stan Gilmour
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135424572
Transnational organized crime crosses borders, challenges States, exploits individuals, pursues profit, wrecks economies, destroys civil society, and ultimately weakens global democracy. It is a phenomenon that is all too often misunderstood and misrepresented. This handbook attempts to redress the balance, by providing a fresh and interdisciplinary overview of the problems which transnational organized crime represents. The innovative aspect of this handbook is not only its interdisciplinary nature but also the dialogue between international academics and practitioners that it presents. The handbook seeks to provide the definitive overview of transnational organized crime, including contributions from leading international scholars as well as emerging researchers. The work starts by examining the origins, concepts, contagion and evolution of transnational organized crime and then moves on to discuss the impact, governance and reactions of governments and their agencies, before looking to the future of transnational organized crime, and how the State will seek to respond. Providing a cutting edge survey of the discipline, this work will be essential reading for all those with an interest in this dangerous phenomenon.
Author : John Gray Geer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Public opinion
ISBN : PSU:000056276657
Covering the good, the bad, and the ugly of polling, this work serves as an important handbook on the ways to understand what citizens are really thinking and how those views can be translated into governmental action.
Author : Ed Bowker Staff,Staff Bowker, Ed
Publisher : R. R. Bowker
Page : 3274 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0835246426
Author : Owen White
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674248441
The surprising story of the wine industry’s role in the rise of French Algeria and the fall of empire. “We owe to wine a blessing far more precious than gold: the peopling of Algeria with Frenchmen,” stated agriculturist Pierre Berthault in the early 1930s. In the last decades of the nineteenth century, Europeans had displaced Algerians from the colony’s best agricultural land and planted grapevines. Soon enough, wine was the primary export of a region whose mostly Muslim inhabitants didn’t drink alcohol. Settlers made fortunes while drawing large numbers of Algerians into salaried work for the first time. But the success of Algerian wine resulted in friction with French producers, challenging the traditional view that imperial possessions should complement, not compete with, the metropole. By the middle of the twentieth century, amid the fight for independence, Algerians had come to see the rows of vines as an especially hated symbol of French domination. After the war, Algerians had to decide how far they would go to undo the transformations the colonists had wrought—including the world’s fourth-biggest wine industry. Owen White examines Algeria’s experiment with nationalized wine production in worker-run vineyards, the pressures that resulted in the failure of that experiment, and the eventual uprooting of most of the country’s vines. With a special focus on individual experiences of empire, from the wealthiest Europeans to the poorest laborers in the fields, The Blood of the Colony shows the central role of wine in the economic life of French Algeria and in its settler culture. White makes clear that the industry left a long-term mark on the development of the nation.
Author : Paolo Bertella Farnetti,Cecilia Dau Novelli
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781527504141
The twentieth century saw a proliferation of media discourses on colonialism and, later, decolonisation. Newspapers, periodicals, films, radio and TV broadcasts contributed to the construction of the image of the African “Other” across the colonial world. In recent years, a growing body of literature has explored the role of these media in many colonial societies. As regards the Italian context, however, although several works have been published about the links between colonial culture and national identity, none have addressed the specific role of the media and their impact on collective memory (or lack thereof). This book fills that gap, providing a review of images and themes that have surfaced and resurfaced over time. The volume is divided into two sections, each organised around an underlying theme: while the first deals with visual memory and images from the cinema, radio, television and new media, the second addresses the role of the printed press, graphic novels and comics, photography and trading cards.
Author : Gill Shaddick
Publisher : Australian Scholarly Publishing
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-29
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781925801637
In the late sixties when the Beatles are top of the charts and Twiggy is hitting the catwalk, Gill embarks on a life-changing journey to Hong Kong. Mao’s revolution is at its height. Vietnam has become America’s longest war with no end in sight. But it’s at an ad agency under insane direction where Gill finds her battles and learns to stand her ground. In this spirited memoir, where Mad Men meets Han Suyin’s A Many-Splendoured Thing, Gill recreates a Hong Kong of the imagination. Attractive and naïve, wined and dined by Hong Kong’s elite, she gravitates towards camaraderie outside the world of advertising and money, and adventure follows. A weekend sail goes awry when a yacht with her on board strays into the waters of Communist China. A full-scale sea and air search mounted from Hong Kong can find no trace. Yet Gill is very much alive. With her friends, she is reciting from Mao’s Little Red Book with no idea what fate awaits her or how long she will be held. The Hong Kong Letters is part memoir, part travelogue. Gill introduces us to characters that fiction couldn’t have invented any better and transports the reader to another time and place, a reminder that anyone can fit the experiences of a lifetime into two short years.
Author : Gregory Bracken
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789089643988
China's opkomst als wereldmacht is een van de ingrijpendste gebeurtenissen van deze tijd. Honderden miljoenen mensen zijn de armoede ontvlucht dankzij de snelle industrialisatie van het land. De wonderbaarlijke economische groei van China heeft zijn nadelen, iets wat vaak het meest pijnlijk duidelijk wordt in de steden. Deze studie is geschreven door wetenschappers uit verschillende disciplines, waaronder architectuur, stedenbouw, sociale wetenschappen, aardrijkskunde en antrolpologie. Een dee van de auteurs behandelt de mondiale ambities van de steden, terwijl andere hun culturele en architecturale uitingen onderzoeken.
Author : Jerod Ra'Del Hollyfield
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781474429962
A wide-ranging study of shifting temporalities and their literary consequences in twentieth-century fiction
Author : Brian Wilson
Publisher : Melrose Book Company
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Civil service
ISBN : 1907040951
After WWII, Hong Kong was to some extent still continuing with its pre-war way of life. This book describes the society and culture, its people, its physical environment and the colonial presence there during its formative years, showing how Westerners and Chinese lived in Hong Kong when conditions were vastly different to what they are today.
Author : James Petras,Henry Veltmeyer
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004307421
This book focuses on US imperialism today in Latin America. It concerns the projection of state power as a means of advancing the economic interests of the US capitalist class and maintaining its hegemony over the world capitalist system.
Author : Amy Elizabeth Bogansky
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781588394965
Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Sept. 16, 2013-Jan. 5, 2014.
