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Hong Kong and British culture, 1945-97
eBook - Studies in Imperialism
ISBN/EAN: 9781784996307
Umbreit-Nr.: 2258604
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 248 S.
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Einband:
Keine Angabe
Erschienen am 01.11.2015
Auflage: 1/2015
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Format: EPUB
DRM: Adobe DRM
- Zusatztext
- <p>This book examines the British cultural engagement with Hong Kong in the second half of the twentieth century. It shows how the territory fit unusually within Britains decolonisation narratives and served as an occasional foil for examining Britains own culture during a period of perceived stagnation and decline.<br><br>Drawing on a wide range of archival and published primary sources, Hong Kong and British culture, 194597 investigates such themes as Hong Kong as a site of unrestrained capitalism, modernisation, and good government, as well as an arena of male social and sexual opportunity. It also examines the ways in which Hong Kong Chinese embraced British culture, and the competing predictions that British observers made concerning the colonys return to Chinese sovereignty. An epilogue considers the enduring legacy of British colonialism.<br><br>This book will be essential reading for historians of Hong Kong, British decolonisation, and Britains culture of declinism.</p>
- Kurztext
- A major contribution to the scholarship on British decolonisation, the cultural history of imperialism and British engagement with China. This highly original study places the emergence of contemporary Hong Kong in the wider, post-imperial setting.