
Hong Kong
Global China's Restive Frontier
Ching Kwan Lee(Author)
Cambridge University Press
Published on 8. September 2022
Book
Paperback/Softback
92 pages
978-1-108-82391-3 (ISBN)
Description
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. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
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Paperback (trade)
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Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 5 mm
Weight
136 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-108-82391-3 (9781108823913)
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Content
1. Hong Kong as Puzzle; 2. Global China's Playbook in Hong Kong; 3. Countermovement: Decolonization from Below; 4. Backlash: Lessons from Hong Kong and Beyond.

