Hong Kong: Legacies and Prospects of Development

by Benjamin K.P. Leung (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138726499
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	11/11/2019
Series:	Routledge Revivals
Pages:	526
Product dimensions:	6.50(w) x 9.62(h) x (d)

About the Author

Benjamin K.P. Leung, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.

Table of Contents

Profiles of change and development: Tai-lok Lui, Thomas Wong, the Hong Kong experience; Paul Wilding, social policy and social development in Hong Kong; Hsin-chi Khan, escape from politics - Hong Kong's predicament of political development; Ming K. Chan, the legacy of the British administration of Hong Kong - a view from Hong Kong. Culture and identity: Siumi Maria Tam, eating metropolitaneity - Hong Kong identity in yumcha; Gordon Mathews, Heunggongyahn - on the past, present and future of Hong Kong identity; Hoi-man Chan, Rance P.L. Lee, Hong Kong families - at the crossroads of modernism and traditionalism; Eric Kit-wai Ma, reinventing Hong Kong - memory, identity and television. Recent trends in political development: Alvin So, Hong Kong's embattled democracy - perspectives from East Asian NIEs; Anthony B.L. Cheung, rebureaucratization of politics in Hong Kong - prospects after 1997; Ian Scott, the disarticulation of Hong Kong's post-handover political system; Siu-kai Lau, the rise and decline of political support for the Hong Kong SAR government; Shiu-hing Lo, political parties, elite-mass gap and political instability in Hong Kong; Steve Tsang, changes in continuity - government and politics in the Hong Kong special administrative region. Economy and society: Alex Hang-keung Choi, the political economy of Hong Kong's industrial upgrading - a lost opportunity; Stephen W.K. Chiu, David A. Levin, the organization of industrial relations in Hong Kong - economic, political and sociological perspectives; Ed Snape, Andy W. Chan, wither Hong Kong unions - autonomous trade unionism or classic dualism; Stephen W.K. Chiu, C.K. Lee, after the Hong Kong miracle - women workers under industrial restructuring; Siu-kai Lau, the fraying of the socio-economic fabric of Hong Kong. Social issues and social policy: Paul Morris, school knowledge, the state and the market - an analysis of the Hong Kong secondary school curriculum; Nelson Chow, the Chinese society and family policy for Hong Kong; Tai-lok Lui, Stephen W.K. Chiu, the structuring of social movements in contemporary Hong Kong; Po-king Choi, the politics of identity - the women's movement in Hong Kong; Siu-lun Wong, Janet Salaff, network capital - emigration from Hong Kong.