Hong Kong Chronicles: Overview & Chronology

Hong Kong Chronicles: Overview & Chronology

Author: Hong Kong Chronicles Institute

Publisher: Chung Hwa Book Co. (H.K.) Ltd.

Published: 2022-06-30

Total Pages: 810

ISBN-13: 9888807323

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Overview & Chronology is the first title of the book series Hong Kong Chronicles by Hong Kong Chronicles Institute. It presents a detailed overview of Hong Kong’s local history and more than 6,500 major historical events taking place between ancient times and 2017. The book series consists of 66 volumes to be released in 42 books with 25 million words and completed in phases by 2027. It covers a historical timeline of 7,000 years – from the New Stone Age 5,000 B.C. to the inauguration of the fifth term of the HKSAR government on July 1, 2017. It includes 10 major categories, including nature, economy, culture, society, politics and people, etc. Local chronicles have the important functions of preserving history, providing reference for policymaking and educating the people. Through the compilation of local chronicles, it serves to seek out, preserve and promote the stories of people, their socio-economic development and way of life as well as political structure. It plays an important role of cultural significance in driving the future by reflecting on the past. The book series is of profound historical significance and cultural value as an accurate, objective, systematic and comprehensive record of 7,000 years of Hong Kong's transformation.


The Challenge of Hong Kong's Reintegration with China

The Challenge of Hong Kong's Reintegration with China

Author: Ming K. Chan

Publisher: Hong Kong University Press

Published: 1997-07-01

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 9789622094413

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The seven essays in this volume address some of the critical issues underlining the process of Hong Kong's reintegration with China. In reviewing the drastic changes in Hong Kong since the mid-1980s, the authors provide multi-disciplinary perspectives to articulate the major institutions and forces that shape the interaction between Beijing and Hong Kong and help to define the challenges ahead.


Hong Kong's Reunion with China

Hong Kong's Reunion with China

Author:

Publisher: Hong Kong University Press

Published: 1997-01-01

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 9789622094482

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As Hong Kong transforms from a colonial dependent territory to a Chinese special administrative region, its international status will be increasingly connected to China's position in the world. the nature of Hong Kong global linkages are shifting as thepo


Hong Kong in Chinese History

Hong Kong in Chinese History

Author: Jung-fang Tsai

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 404

ISBN-13: 9780231079334

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This historical study traces unrest and social transformation in Hong Kong and explores how merchants, the intelligentsia and labourers played important roles in China's social and political movements from the mid-19th century until the first years of the Chinese Republic.


Hong Kong's Reunion with China: The Global Dimensions

Hong Kong's Reunion with China: The Global Dimensions

Author: Gerard A. Postiglione

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-07-01

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 1315503042

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The issues surrounding Hong Kong's global position and international links grow increasingly complex by the day as the process of Hong Kong's transformation from a British colony to a Chinese Special Administration Region unfolds. This volume addresses a number of questions relating to this process. How international is Hong Kong? What are its global and international dimensions? How important are these dimensions to its continued success? How will these dimensions change, especially beyond the sphere of economics? Is Hong Kong's internationalization, defined in terms of its willingness to embrace international values and its capacity to maintain its international presence, at risk? These questions are presented as they pertain to the changing situation; relations between mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong; the positions of Australia, Canada and the United States on Hong Kong; internalization of international legal values; Americanization vs. Asianization; linkages to the world through Guangdong; strategies to emigrate overseas, cultural internationalization; media internationalization and universities within the global economy.


Crisis and Transformation in China's Hong Kong

Crisis and Transformation in China's Hong Kong

Author: Ming K. Chan

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-07-08

Total Pages: 453

ISBN-13: 1315498634

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Hong Kong has undergone sweeping transformation since its return to Chinese sovereignty in 1997. This is a multidisciplinary assessment of the new regime and key issues, challenges, crises and opportunities confronting the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR).


The Fall of Hong Kong

The Fall of Hong Kong

Author: Philip Snow

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2003-01-01

Total Pages: 530

ISBN-13: 9780300103731

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The definitive account of the wartime history of Hong Kong On Christmas Day 1941 the Japanese captured Hong Kong, and Britain lost control of its Chinese colony for almost four years, a turning point in the process by which the British were to be expelled from the colony and from East Asia. This book unravels for the first time the dramatic story of the Japanese occupation and reinterprets the subsequent evolution of Hong Kong. "Magnificent. . . . The clarity of mind Snow brings to his labor of storytelling and contextualizing is] amazing."--John Lanchester, Daily Telegraph "Beautifully written, with many telling anecdotes."--Lawrence D. Freedman, Foreign Affairs "Very good. . . . Provides] a much more nuanced picture than has appeared before in English of life among Hong Kong's different communities before and during the Japanese occupation."--Economist


Global Chinese Cinema

Global Chinese Cinema

Author: Gary D. Rawnsley

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2011-09

Total Pages: 253

ISBN-13: 1135281491

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Director Zhang Yimou's film Hero, released in 2002, is widely regarded as the first globally successful indigenous Chinese blockbuster, touching on key questions of Chinese culture, nation and politics. This book explores the reasons for the film’s popularity with its audiences, and provides fascinating insights into recent developments in Chinese society, popular culture and cultural production.


Area Bibliography of China

Area Bibliography of China

Author: Richard T. Wang

Publisher: Scarecrow Press

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 9780810833500

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A combination of scholarly, commercial, and popular interests has generated a large quantity of literature on every aspect of Chinese life during the past two decades. This bibliography reflects these combined interests; it is broken up into sections by subject headings, and cross-references refer the researcher to related topics.