City on the edge : Hong Kong under Chinese rule

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City on the edge : Hong Kong under Chinese rule

Title remainder

Hong Kong under Chinese rule

Statement of responsibility

Ho-fung Hung

Creator

• Hung, Ho-fung

Subject

• Economic development -- China | Hong Kong -- History
• Hong Kong (China) -- Economic conditions
• China -- Foreign economic relations -- United States
• Hong Kong (China) -- Social conditions
• United States -- Foreign economic relations -- China
• Hong Kong (China) -- Politics and government

Language

eng

Summary

For decades, Hong Kong has maintained precarious freedom at the edge of competing world powers. In City on the Edge, Ho-fung Hung offers a timely and engaging account of Hong Kong's development from precolonial times to the present, with particular focus on the post 1997 handover period. Through careful analysis of vast economic data, a myriad of political events, and intricate networks of actors and ideas, Hung offers readers insight into the fraught economic, political, and social forces that led to the 2019 uprising, while situating the protests in the context of global finance and the geopolitics of the US-China rivalry. A provocative contribution to the discussion on Hong Kong's position in today's world, City on the Edge demonstrates that the resistance and repression of 2019-2020 does not spell the end of Hong Kong but the beginning of a long conflict with global repercussions.--

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non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Series statement

Cambridge Social Sciences eBooks