Lost in China? - Law, Culture and Identity in Post-1997 Hong Kong

Since 1997, the walls of law around Hong Kong have come under attack. This book examines the strategies of resistance.

List of contents

Introduction: the lie of the land; 1. Walls of law; 2. The transition: fears and fantasies; 3. Danger, death and disappearance; 4. The disappearance of Yu Man Hon; 5. Patrolling the walls of law; 6. The law wars - wayward children and the right of abode cases; 7. The law wars - the flag cases; 8. The law wars - Article 23 and the 1 July 2003 march; 9. The law wars - law as politics, politics as law; 10. The law wars - law and civil society; 11. The law wars - interpreting the law; 12. The culture wars - globalism, nationalism and localism; 13. The culture wars - creating the nation; 14. The culture wars - education and the cultivation of identity; 15. The culture wars - history, identity and the nostalgia boom; 16. The culture wars - freedom of the press; 17. Conclusion: lost and found.

About the author

Carol Jones taught at universities in Hong Kong from 1990 to 2002, and remains involved academically there. She has written extensively about the role of law in Hong Kong's history and society, and she has a particular interest in how ideas about the law have shaped and been shaped by Hong Kong's colonial and postcolonial development.

Summary

The 2014 'Umbrella Revolution' in Hong Kong saw hundreds of thousands of demonstrators on the streets, the culmination of rising fears and frustrations about the loss of Hong Kong's core values – principally the rule of law – since 1997. Carol Jones examines how and why this resistance arose.

Product details

• Authors: Carol A. G. Jones, Carol A. G. (University of Wolverhampton) Jones, Jones Carol A. G.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2015
• EAN: 9781107093379
• ISBN: 978-1-107-09337-9
• No. of pages: 284
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Law and Society; Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
• Subjects: Education and learning > Adult education/adult education classes; Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; Law, LAW / General, Hong Kong, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, Politics and government, c 1990 to c 1999, Law & society, Law and society, sociology of law