Covert Colonialism - Governance, Surveillance Political Culture in British Hong Kong, C.

This book fills the long-standing void in the existing scholarship by constructing an empirical study of colonial governance and political culture in Hong Kong from 1966 to 1997.Using under-exploited archival and unofficial data in London and Hong Kong, it overcomes the limitations in the existing literature which has been written mainly by political scientists and sociologists, and has been primarily theoretically driven. It addresses a highly contested and timely agenda, one in which colonial historians have made major interventions: the nature of colonial governance and autonomy of the colonial polity. This book focusing on colonialism and the Chinese society in Hong Kong in a pivotal period will generate meaningful discussions and heated debates on comparisons between 'colonialism' in different space and time: between Hong Kong and other former British colonies; and between colonial and post-colonial Hong Kong.

Info autore

Florence Mok is a Nanyang Assistant Professor of History at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Florence Mok
• Editore: Manchester University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 24.09.2024
• EAN: 9781526182333
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-8233-3
• Pagine: 296
• Serie: Studies in Imperialism
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze politiche > Scienze politiche e cittadinanza attiva; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > XX° secolo (fino al 1945); Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, British Empire, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, Hong Kong, Colonialism & imperialism, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Social and cultural history, Colonialism and imperialism, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period)