Full Description
This title was first published in 2003. Hong Kong is a society of contrasts and paradoxes. The city has a contrasting and yet fluid intermingling of social and cultural images - east and west, local and colonial, modern and traditional, extravagant and frugal. In this volume, the editor has selected essays dealing with a variety of aspects of Hong Kong including change and development, culture and identity, trends in political development, economy and society, social issues and social policy.
Contents
Profiles of change and development: Tai-lok Lui, Thomas Wong, the Hong Kong experience; Paul Wilding, social policy and social development in Hong Kong; Hsin-chi Khan, escape from politics - Hong Kong's predicament of political development; Ming K. Chan, the legacy of the British administration of Hong Kong - a view from Hong Kong. Culture and identity: Siumi Maria Tam, eating metropolitaneity - Hong Kong identity in yumcha; Gordon Mathews, Heunggongyahn - on the past, present and future of Hong Kong identity; Hoi-man Chan, Rance P.L. Lee, Hong Kong families - at the crossroads of modernism and traditionalism; Eric Kit-wai Ma, reinventing Hong Kong - memory, identity and television. Recent trends in political development: Alvin So, Hong Kong's embattled democracy - perspectives from East Asian NIEs; Anthony B.L. Cheung, rebureaucratization of politics in Hong Kong - prospects after 1997; Ian Scott, the disarticulation of Hong Kong's post-handover political system; Siu-kai Lau, the rise and decline of political support for the Hong Kong SAR government; Shiu-hing Lo, political parties, elite-mass gap and political instability in Hong Kong; Steve Tsang, changes in continuity - government and politics in the Hong Kong special administrative region. Economy and society: Alex Hang-keung Choi, the political economy of Hong Kong's industrial upgrading - a lost opportunity; Stephen W.K. Chiu, David A. Levin, the organization of industrial relations in Hong Kong - economic, political and sociological perspectives; Ed Snape, Andy W. Chan, wither Hong Kong unions - autonomous trade unionism or classic dualism; Stephen W.K. Chiu, C.K. Lee, after the Hong Kong miracle - women workers under industrial restructuring; Siu-kai Lau, the fraying of the socio-economic fabric of Hong Kong. Social issues and social policy: Paul Morris, school knowledge, the state and the market - an analysis of the Hong Kong secondary school curriculum; Nelson Chow, the Chinese society and family policy for Hong Kong; Tai-lok Lui, Stephen W.K. Chiu, the structuring of social movements in contemporary Hong Kong; Po-king Choi, the politics of identity - the women's movement in Hong Kong; Siu-lun Wong, Janet Salaff, network capital - emigration from Hong Kong.
