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Hong Kong and British culture, 1945-97
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- Summary
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A major contribution to the scholarship on British decolonisation, the cultural history of imperialism and Britain's engagement with China, this highly original study places the emergence of contem...
A major contribution to the scholarship on British decolonisation, the cultural history of imperialism and Britain's engagement with China, this highly original study places the emergence of contemporary Hong Kong in a wider post-imperial setting.
Details
- Creator
- Mark Hampton
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2016
- ©2016
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (xii, 234 pages) : illustrations
- ISBNs
- 9781784996925, 1784996920, 9780719099236, 0719099234, 9780719099236
- OCLC
- ocn927296846
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Introduction: Britishness, empire, and Hong Kong -- Hong Kong and British culture: postwar contexts -- The discourse of unbridled capitalism in postwar Hong Kong -- A man's playground -- The discourses of order and modernism -- Good governance and Chinese British -- Narratives of 1997 -- Epilogue: postcolonial hangovers