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Author Hampton, Mark, 1970- author

Title Hong Kong and British culture, 1945-97 / Mark Hampton
Published Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2016
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Description 1 online resource (xii, 234 pages) : illustrations
Series Studies in imperialism
Studies in imperialism (Manchester, England)
Contents Introduction: Britishness, empire, and Hong Kong -- Hong Kong and British culture: postwar contexts -- The discourse of unbridled capitalism in postwar Hong Kong -- A man's playground -- The discourses of order and modernism -- Good governance and Chinese British -- Narratives of 1997 -- Epilogue: postcolonial hangovers
Summary A major contribution to the scholarship on British decolonisation, the cultural history of imperialism and Britain's engagement with China, this highly original study places the emergence of contemporary Hong Kong in a wider post-imperial setting
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Postwar 20th Century History, From C 1945 To C 2000.
Social & Cultural History.
Colonialism & Imperialism.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- International.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- International Relations -- General.
HISTORY -- Europe -- Great Britain.
International relations
Kultur
Briten
SUBJECT Great Britain -- Relations -- China -- Hong Kong
Hong Kong (China) -- Relations -- Great Britain
Subject China -- Hong Kong
Great Britain
Hongkong
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781784996925
1784996920