Explores the city's history, its blend of Eastern and Western traditions, and its hopes for the future as Hong Kong prepares to become a part of the People's Republic of China
This comprehensive book provides a multi-dimensional analysis of Hong Kong's development, and her political, socio-economic and cultural relations with China.
The book explores Hong Kong as a place with a unique identity, yet also a crossroads where Chinese history, British colonial history, and world history intersect.
... L. M. 70 Ho, M. L. 85 Hoadley, J. S. 27 Hobsbawm, E. J. 78 “Homecoming” (Sishui liunian) (film) 66 Hong Kong: administrative bureaucracy in 53–5; as “apolitical” 26; as belonging to the global market 9–15, 29, 35, 39, 123, 137, 160; ...
-- Hugh D. R. Baker, Asian Affairs
States. After his eldest two sons attended U.S. graduate schools in the late 1940s, two more sons graduated from ... all returned to Hong Kong for a time and assumed management positions at Ka Wah, Chiap Hua, and Baptist College.
About the history of Hong Kong from ancient times until 1993.
The Hong Kong SAR in Retrospective and Introspective Perspectives Yue-man Yeung ... ( 1999 ) , The Annotated Ordinances of Hong Kong : Hong Kong Bill of Rights Ordinance . Hong Kong : Butterworths Asia . Chan , Johannes M. M. , H. L. Fu ...
Lonely Planet_s Pocket Hong Kong is your guide to the city_s best experiences and local life - neighbourhood by neighbourhood.
This work has established itself as "the definitive description of the Hong Kong government and its underlying politics." It is a complete and systematic examination of the machinery of government...