Remaking Citizenship in Hong Kong: Community, nation and the global city

by Agnes S. Ku (Editor), Ngai Pun (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415332095
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	08/05/2004
Series:	Routledge Studies in Asia's Transformations , #6
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

List of TablesAcknowledgmentsForeword Introduction 1. Introduction: Remaking Citizenship in Hong Kong Part 1: State, Institutions, and Ideologies 2. Citizenship as a Form of Governance: A Historical Overview3. Welfare Good or Colonial Citizenship? A Case Study of Early Resettlement Housing4. Civic Education and the Making of Deformed Citizenry: From British Colony to Chinese Sar5. 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 Issues7. Hong Kong as a Semi-Ethnocracy: 'Race', Migration, and Citizenship in a Globalized Region8. 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 Regimes10. En-Gendering Citizenship11. (Post-)Identity Politics and Anti-Normalization: (Homo)Sexual Rights Movement12. In Search of Communal Economic Subject - Reflections on a Local Community Currency Project13. One Country, Three Systems? State, Nation, and Civil Society in the Making of Citizenship in the Chinese Triangle of Mainland-Taiwan-Hong KongIndexContributors

Editorial Reviews

'The authors provide insightful analyses on the complex interwining between state and market and between doemstic politics and the global economy.' - The China Journal

'All the chapters reflect familiarity with contemporary general literature on their respective themes, considerable fieldwork and research, as well as insights derived from having personally experienced many of the changes presented in academic prose here.' - Michael Yahuda, LSE, in Political Studies Review

'[T]his is a book of great value in terms of its research agenda as well as theoretical and empirical contributions.' - Lam Wai-Man, China Perspectives, No. 2, 2007

'The authors provide insightful analyses on the complex interwining between state and market and between doemstic politics and the global economy.' - The China Journal

'All the chapters reflect familiarity with contemporary general literature on their respective themes, considerable fieldwork and research, as well as insights derived from having personally experienced many of the changes presented in academic prose here.' - Michael Yahuda, LSE, in Political Studies Review

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