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Hong Kong and British culture, 1945-97 /

A major contribution to the scholarship on British decolonisation, the cultural history of imperialism and Britain's engagement with China, this highly original study places the emergence of contemporary Hong Kong in a wider post-imperial setting.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Hampton, Mark, 1970- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2016.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Britishness, empire, and Hong Kong
  • Hong Kong and British culture: postwar contexts
  • The discourse of unbridled capitalism in postwar Hong Kong
  • A man's playground
  • The discourses of order and modernism
  • Good governance and Chinese British
  • Narratives of 1997
  • Epilogue: postcolonial hangovers.