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Forever Hong Kong : a global city's decolonization struggle
\"How did Hong Kong, long an affluent and depoliticized hub of global capitalism, become the center of popular anticolonial protest? Ching Kwan Lee provides a reflective history and vivid ethnography of an improbable decolonization movement, exploring what drives Hong Kongers' pursuit of a future built on democracy, justice, and self-determination.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Undercurrents
Undercurrents engages the critical rubric of queer to examine Hong Kong's screen and media culture during the transitional and immediate postcolonial period. Helen Hok-Sze Leung draws on theoretical insights from a range of disciplines to reveal parallels between the crisis and uncertainty of the territory's postcolonial transition and the queer aspects of its cultural productions. She explores Hong Kong cultural productions � cinema, fiction, popular music, and subcultural projects � and argues that while there is no overt consolidation of gay and lesbian identities in Hong Kong culture, undercurrents of diverse and complex expressions of gender and sexual variance are widely in evidence. Undercurrents uncovers a queer media culture that has been largely overlooked by critics in the West and demonstrates the cultural vitality of Hong Kong amidst political transition.
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Found in transition : Hong Kong studies in the age of China
\"In Found in Transition, Yiu-Wai Chu provides a critical examination of the fate of Hong Kong's unique cultural identity in the contexts of both global capitalism and increasing influence of China. Drawing on recent developments in Hong Kong, especially with respect to language and education, movies and popular songs as modes of resistance to \"Mainlandization,\" and different forms of censorship, this book offers an intelligent guide to connect and make sense of the various debates and conundrums facing Hong Kong shortly before and after the twentieth anniversary of its reversion to China as a Special Administrative Region. Highlighting locality and hybridity along postcolonial lines of interpretation, this book will contribute to the important fields of Hong Kong and China Studies. It is also an attempt to imagine the future of Hong Kong by underlining Hong Kong studies as a method. Chu argues that the study of Hong Kong, where the impact of the rise of China is most intensely felt, can also shed light on emergent crises in different areas of the world. As such this book constitutes not only a consequential follow-up to the author's Lost in Transition, but also a valuable contribution to international, area, and cultural studies\"-- Provided by publisher.
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May Days in Hong Kong
In this study of the anti-colonial riots which erupted in Hong Kong in May 1967, the authors of May Days in Hong Kong shed new light on their causes, their impact on future government policy and on Sino-British relations, and their legacy for Hong Kong so
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Hong Kong's Court of Final Appeal
In the years since it was established on 1 July 1997, Hong Kong's Court of Final Appeal has developed a distinctive body of new law and doctrine with the help of eminent foreign common law judges. Under the leadership of Chief Justice Andrew Li, it has also remained independent under Chinese sovereignty and become a model for other Asian final courts working to maintain the rule of law, judicial independence and professionalism in challenging political environments. In this book, leading practitioners, jurists and academics examine the Court's history, operation and jurisprudence, and provide a comparative analysis with European courts and China's other autonomous final court in Macau. It also makes use of extensive empirical data compiled from the jurisprudence to illuminate the Court's decision-making processes and identify the relative impacts of the foreign and local judges.
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Return migration and identity : a global phenomenon, a Hong Kong case
The global trend for immigrants to return home has unique relevance for Hong Kong. This work of cross-cultural psychology explores many personal stories of return migration. The author captures in dozens of interviews the anxieties, anticipations, hardships and flexible world perspectives of migrants and their families as well as friends and co-workers. The book examines cultural identity shifts and population flows during a critical juncture in Hong Kong history between the Sino-British Joint Declaration in 1984 and the early years of Hong Kong’s new status as a special administrative region after 1997. Nearly a million residents of Hong Kong migrated to North America, Europe and Australia in the 1990s. These interviews and analyses help illustrate individual choices and identity profiles during this period of unusual cultural flexibility and behavioral adjustment.
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Media, Social Mobilisation and Mass Protests in Post-colonial Hong Kong
Since 2003, Hong Kong has witnessed a series of large-scale protests which have constituted the core of a reinvigorated pro-democracy movement. What drove tens of thousands of citizens to the street on a yearly basis to protest? What were the social and organizational bases of the protest movement? How did media and public discourses affect the protests’ formation and mobilization? How did the protesters understand their own actions and the political environment? This book tackles such questions by using a wide range of methods, including population and protest onsite surveys, media content analysis, and in-depth interviews with activists, politicians, and protest participants. It provides an account of the \"self-mobilization processes\" behind the historic July 1, 2003 protest, and how the protest kick-started new political dynamics and discursive contestations in the public arena which not only turned a single protest into a series of collective actions constituting a movement, but also continually shaped the movement’s characteristics and influence. The book is highly pertinent to readers interested in political development in Hong Kong, and as a case study on \"the power of critical events,\" the book also has broad implications on the study of both media politics and social movements in general.
1. Introduction: From a Critical Event to Ritualistic Protests 2. Public Opinion on the Eve of Explosion 3. Organization, Communication, and Mobilization 4. The Reshaping of Public Discourse 5. Constructing the Call for Democracy 6. Contextual Changes and Strategic Responses 7. Development of the Movement Organization 8. The Social Bases of Continual Protests 9. Making Sense of Participation 10. The June 4 Connection
Francis L. F. Lee is Associate Professor at the School of Journalism and Communication, Chinese University of Hong Kong. Joseph M. Chan is Professor of Journalism and Communication at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He also served as the Changjiang Chair Professor of Journalism at Fudan University, Shanghai.
The authors also co-edited Media and Politics in Post-handover Hong Kong (also published by Routledge, 2008).
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