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From a British to a Chinese Colony?

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This collection of essays explores the development and legacy of British colonialism in Hong Kong, and Hong Kong’s place in Chinese history from the mid-Qing through the Republican and PRC eras. Af...
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This collection of essays explores the development and legacy of British colonialism in Hong Kong, and Hong Kong’s place in Chinese history from the mid-Qing through the Republican and PRC eras. After a substantial introduction by the editor, the nine contributors to this volume analyze (1) the formation and vestiges of British colonialism in Hong Kong, (2) Hong Kong’s role in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century history of the British empire, the Qing dynasty, and subsequent Chinese governments, and (3) the incorporation of Hong Kong into the PRC in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Their detailed essays critically document the political and cultural processes by which colonial structures were constructed and maintained in Hong Kong under British rule. They also offer illuminating analysis of the discourses on “reunification” that have played out in Hong Kong in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, and the aptness of recent characterizations of Hong Kong’s recent history as a process of "recolonization."
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Price: $32.00
Pages: 304
Publisher: Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Imprint: Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Series: China Research Monograph
Publication Date: 01 December 2017
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9781557291769
Format: Paperback
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Gary Chi-hung Luk is the Elizabeth and Cecil Kent Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of History, University of Saskatchewan. Luk works on early modern and modern China, the British Empire in East Asia, and Hong Kong, with special interests in the maritime and river world, empires and colonialism, frontiers and borderlands, and race and ethnicity. Education: B.A. in History, Chinese University of Hong Kong; M.Phil in History, University of Hong Kong; D.Phil in Oriental Studies (Chinese Studies), University of Oxford

Contributors
Note on the Romanization of Names

Introduction. Straddling the Handover: Colonialism and Decolonization in British and PRC Hong Kong
Gary Chi-hung Luk

PART I. BRITISH COLONIAL LEGACIES
1. The Comprador System in Nineteenth-Century Hong Kong
Kaori Abe                 

2. Government and Language in Hong Kong
Sonia Lam-Knott

3. A Ruling Idea of the Time? The Rule of Law in Pre- and Post-1997 Hong Kong
Carol A. G. Jones

PART II. HONG KONG, BRITAIN, AND CHINA(S)
4. From Cold War Warrior to Moral Guardian: Film Censorship in British Hong Kong
Zardas Shuk-man Lee

5. The Roots of Regionalism: Water Management in Postwar Hong Kong
David Clayton

6. Economic Relations between the Mainland and Hong Kong, an “Irreplacable” Financial Center
Leo F. Goodstadt

PART III. DECOLONIZATION, RETROCESSION, AND RECOLONIZATION: NEW PERSPECTIVES

7. At the Edge of Empire: The Eurasian, Portuguese, and Baghdadi Jewish Communities in British Hong Kong
Felicia Yap

8. Reunification Discourse and Chinese Nationalisms
Law Wing Sang

9. From Citizens Back to Subjects: Constructing National Belonging in Hong Kong’s National Education Centre
Kevin Carrico

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