Hong Kong's Reunion with China: The Global Dimensions: The Global Dimensions

by Postiglione,Gerard A.

• ISBN13: 9780765601551
• ISBN10: 0765601559
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-07-31
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

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 internationalizatio

Table of Contents

Foreword: Chinese Globalism in Hong Kong	vii	(4)
Lynn T. White III
Acknowledgments	xi	(2)
Contributors	xiii
Introduction: Transforming Hong Kong's Global Identity	3	(17)
Gerard A. Postiglione
James T. H. Tang
Ting Wai
1. Global Implications of Hong Kong's Retrocession to Chinese Sovereignty	20	(22)
Ming K. Chan
2. Mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong as International Actors	42	(37)
Byron S. J. Weng
3. Playing the International Card? The View from Australia, Canada, and the United States	79	(23)
Kim Richard Nossal
4. Hong Kong and the Newly Industrializing Economies: From Americanization to Asianization	102	(21)
Lai On-Kwok
Alvin Y. So
5. Links to and Through South China: Local, Regional, and Global Connections	123	(24)
Graham E. Johnson
6. The Internalization of International Law in Hong Kong	147	(22)
Roda Mushkat
7. Labyrinth of Hybridization: The Cultural Internationalization of Hong Kong	169	(31)
Hoiman Chan
8. Globalization of Hong Kong's People: International Migration and the Family	200	(22)
Janet W. Salaff
Wong Siu-lun
9. Media Internationalization in Hong Kong: Patterns, Factors, and Tensions	222	(17)
Joseph Man Chan
10. Hong Kong's Universities Within the Global Academy	239	(30)
Gerard A. Postiglione
Appendix 1: Hong Kong's Participation in Multilateral Forums up to March 31, 1996	269	(3)
Appendix 2: U.S.-Hong Kong Policy Act of 1992	272	(9)
Selected References	281	(16)
Index	297