Hong Kong: Becoming a Chinese Global City

by Chiu; Stephen

• ISBN13: 9780415220101
• ISBN10: 0415220106
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-08-04
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Hong Kong: The Global City examines the developmental history of Hong Kong, focusing on its rise to the status of a Chinese global city in the world economy, and its social and political correlates between the 1970s to the 1990s. Chiu and Lui's analysis is distinct in its perspective of the development as an integrated process involving economic, political and social dimensions, and as such this insightful and original book is a core text on Hong Kong society for students.

Author Biography

Stephen Chiu is Professor of Sociology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. Tai-Lok Lui is Professor of Sociology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.

Table of Contents

List of figures	p. xii
List of tables	p. xiii
Acknowledgements	p. xv
Introduction	p. 1
Global connections: centre of Chinese capitalism	p. 15
An industrial colony: Hong Kong manufacturing from boom to bust	p. 25
The building of an international financial centre	p. 56
A divided city?	p. 81
Decolonization, political restructuring and post-colonial governance crisis	p. 103
The return of the regional and the national	p. 129
A Chinese global city?	p. 152
Notes	p. 163
Bibliography	p. 167
Index	p. 182
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