Hong Kong as a global metropolis /
"Hong Kong has remained the global metropolis for Asia since its founding in the 1840s following the Opium Wars between Britain and China. David Meyer traces its history from the arrival of the foreign trading firms, when it was established as one of the leading Asian business centers, to its c...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
2000.
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Colección: | Cambridge studies in historical geography ;
30. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Enigma
- Intermediaries of capital
- From Canton to Hong Kong
- Hub of the China trade
- Chinese and foreign social networks of capital
- Trade and finance center for Asia
- Industrial metropolis
- Global metropolis for Asia
- Hong Kong, China.