Hong Kong and British Culture, 1945-97

Informationen zum Autor Mark Hampton is Associate Professor of History and Director of the Centre for Cinema Studies at Lingnan University Klappentext A major contribution to the scholarship on British decolonisation, the cultural history of imperialism and British engagement with China. This highly original study places the emergence of contemporary Hong Kong in the wider, post-imperial setting. Zusammenfassung A major contribution to the scholarship on British decolonisation! the cultural history of imperialism and British engagement with China. This highly original study places the emergence of contemporary Hong Kong in the wider! post-imperial setting. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction1. Hong Kong and British culture: postwar contexts2. The discourse of unbridled capitalism in post-war Hong Kong3. A man's playground4. The discourses of order and modernisation5. Good governance6. Chinese Britishness7. Narratives of 1997Epilogue: Colonial hangoversBibliographyIndex

Product details

• Authors: Dr Mark Hampton, Mark Hampton
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.11.2015
• EAN: 9780719099236
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-9923-6
• No. of pages: 248
• Series: Studies in Imperialism
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous