Hong Kong, China: Learning to Belong to a Nation (Routledge Contemporary China Series)

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Year: 2007
Tongue: English
Leaves: 212
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

The idea of ‘national identity’ is an ambiguous one for Hong Kong. Returned to the national embrace of China on 1 July 1997 after 150 years as a British colony, the concept of national identity and what it means to "belong to a nation" is a matter of great tension and contestation in Hong Kong. Written by three academic specialists on Hong Kong cultural identity, social history, and mass media, this book explores the processes through which the people of Hong Kong are "learning to belong to a nation" by examining their relationship with the Chinese nation and state in the recent past, present, and future. It considers the complex meanings of and debates over national identity in Hong Kong over the past fifty years and especially during the last decade following Hong Kong’s return to China. It also places these arguments within a larger, global perspective, to ask what Hong Kong can teach us about national identity and its potential transformations. Multidisciplinary in its approach, Hong Kong and China explores national identity in terms of theory, mass media, survey date, ethnography and history, and will appeal to students and scholars of Chinese history, cultural studies, and nationalism.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 6
Copyright......Page 7
Contents......Page 8
Illustrations......Page 9
Acknowledgments......Page 10
Notes on Hong Kong and Chinese......Page 11
Prologue......Page 14
1 The significance of Hong Kong......Page 16
2 Fleeing the nation, creating a local home, 1949–1983......Page 37
3 Rejoining the nation: Hong Kong, 1983–2006......Page 55
4 Representing the nation in the Hong Kong mass media......Page 73
5 Hong Kong schools and the teaching of national identity......Page 93
6 Hong Kong people’s changing comprehensions of national identity......Page 110
7 How American, Chinese, and Hong Kong university students understand “belonging to a nation”......Page 130
8 Hong Kong people encountering the nation in south China......Page 146
9 Hong Kong’s market-based national identity: Harbinger of a global future?......Page 163
Notes......Page 183
References......Page 192
Index......Page 205

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