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Author: Ambrose Y. C. King
Publisher: Chinese University Press
Published: 1981
Total Pages: 396
ISBN-13: 9789622013377
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe papers in this volume, prepared by social scientists with different specializations, address selected aspects of Hong Kong's post-War development.
Author: Wai-man Lam
Publisher: M.E. Sharpe
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780765613141
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book challenges the widely held belief that Hong Kong's political culture is one of indifference. The term "political indifference" is used to suggest the apathy, naivete, passivity, and utilitarianism of Hong Kong's people toward political life. Taking a broad historical look at political participation in the former colony, Wai-man Lam argues that this is not a valid view and demonstrates Hong Kong's significant political activism in thirteen selected case studies covering 1949 through the present. Through in-depth analysis of these cases she provides a new understanding of the nature of Hong Kong politics, which can be described as a combination of political activism and a culture of depoliticization.
Author: Tak-Wing Ngo
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2002-09-11
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 1134630948
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRewriting Hong Kong's history from the bottom up, the chapters investigate vital, but hitherto obscured, aspects of the colony's rise. They cover the Chinese collaboration with the colonial regime, legal discrimination and intimidation, rural politics, social movements, government-business relations, industrial policy, flexible manufacturing and colonial historiography. Drawing together contributions from historians, sociologists and political scientists, the book highlights the role played by a variety of social actors in Hong Kong's history and differs both from recent celebrations of British colonialism and anti-colonial Chinese nationalism.
Author: Paul Kwong
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 301
ISBN-13: 3643900783
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe term ContactZone was coined in postcolonial discourse to signify the place where cultures and religions meet. It implies that first contact, cultural-religious exchange and conflict have always been determined by power-relations. Through making use of communication theories, hermeneutics and aesthetics intercultural theology generates new terminologies and theoretical tools to explore these interactions. Its scope ranges from issues such as dialogue and syncretism to fundamentalism and ethnicity. Perspectives of culture, religion, race, class and gender alike are involved in the necessary multi-axial approach. ContactZone is going to create a space where a choir of multiple voices is responding to the challenges of the cultural religious pluralism of the 21st century. Archbishop Paul Kwong (* 1950) develops the idea of "identity in community" as central to the mission and theological agenda of Christians in Hong Kong. In a wide-ranging multidisciplinary study, he analyzes diverse perspectives on the territory's recent history and compares the methodological approaches of local theologians with contextual theologies from other parts of the world. He argues that the overlapping cultural and religious identities of Christians in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR) of China can empower Hong Kong people to embrace rather than to exclude differences and otherness, so that they can accept and live out our their identities in community without having to make a choice for one among the many.
Author: Wong Heung Wah Wong
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-03-05
Total Pages: 261
ISBN-13: 1136814167
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines the ways in of organising work, rank, compensation, and promotion inside a large Japanese company in Hong Kong, and its spiritual training, to reveal the socio-economic base of managerial control. A must for anthropologists and Japanologists.
Author: Gunter Schubert
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012-01-30
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 1136701273
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs we look to enter the second decade of the 21st century, Taiwan’s quest for identity remains the most contentious issue in the domestic arena of Taiwanese politics. From here, it spills over into the cross-Strait relationship and impacts on regional and global security. Whether Taiwan is a nation state or whether Taiwan has any claim to be a nation-state and how Taiwan should relate to "China" are issues which have long been hotly debated on the island, although it seems that much of this debate is now more focused on finding an adequate strategy to deal with the Beijing government than on the legitimacy of Taiwan’s claim to sovereignty as the Republic of China. The collection of chapters in this book shed light on very different aspects of Taiwan’s current state of identity formation from historical, political, social and economic perspectives, both domestically, and globally. As such it will be invaluable reading for students and scholars of Taiwan studies, politics, history and society, as well as those interested in cross-Strait relations, Chinese politics, and Chinese international relations.
Author: Pui-tak Lee
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
Published: 2001-01-01
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9622095119
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis comprehensive book provides a multi-dimensional analysis of Hong Kong's development, and her political, socio-economic and cultural relations with China.
Author: Catherine M. Jones
Publisher: Chinese University Press
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9789622014756
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Edward Vickers
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-09-13
Total Pages: 410
ISBN-13: 1135405077
DOWNLOAD EBOOKVisions of the past are crucual to the way that any community imagines itself and constructs its identity. This edited volume contains the first significant studies of the politics of history education in East Asian societies.
