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Made in Hong Kong transpacific networks and a new history of globalization

"Between 1949 and 1997, Hong Kong transformed from a struggling British colonial outpost into a global financial capital. Made in Hong Kong delivers a new narrative of this metamorphosis, revealing Hong Kong both as a critical engine in the expansion and remaking of postwar global capitalism an...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hamilton, Peter E. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York Columbia University Press [2021]
Colección:Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction. Center of the Earth : Hong Kong's transpacific networks and the origins of China's globalization
  • Capitalist transplants : elite refugees and the first reorientations of Hong Kong
  • Christian transplants : non-elite refugees and American educational outreach
  • Cold War partners : Hong Kong's "refugee colleges" and American aid
  • The turning point : Li Choh-Ming and kuashang strategies at Chinese University
  • Decolonization by investment : American social and financial capital in Hong Kong
  • The kuashang effect : American social capital and Hong Kong's 1970s takeoff
  • Leading the way : kuashang brokers in China, 1971-1982
  • The gatekeepers : kuashang strategies and a new global order, 1982-1992