Bibliograph

Hong Kong, global China's restive frontier, Ching Kwan Lee

Type

Label

Hong Kong, global China's restive frontier, Ching Kwan Lee

Language

eng

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Hong Kong

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

1341281453

Responsibility statement

Ching Kwan Lee

Series statement

Cambridge elements. Elements in global China, 2632-7341Open Access e-Books

Sub title

global China's restive frontier

Summary

How did Hong Kong transform itself from a 'shoppers' and capitalists' paradise' into a 'city of protests' at the frontline of a global anti-China backlash? CK Lee situates the post-1997 China-Hong Kong contestation in the broader context of 'global China.' Beijing deploys a bundle of power mechanisms - economic statecraft, patron-clientelism, and symbolic domination - around the world, including Hong Kong. This Chinese power project triggers a variety of countermovements from Asia to Africa, ranging from acquiescence and adaptation to appropriation and resistance. In Hong Kong, reactions against the totality of Chinese power have taken the form of eventful protests, which, over two decades, have broadened into a momentous decolonization struggle. More than an ideological conflict between a liberal capitalist democratizing city and its Communist authoritarian sovereign, the Hong Kong story, stunning and singular in its many peculiarities, offers lessons about China as a global force.--, Provided by publisher

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