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1. Hong Kong, China

   Learning to belong to a nation

   By Gordon Mathews, Eric Ma, Tai-Lok Lui

   Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series

   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...

   Published July 19th 2008 by Routledge
2. Culture, Politics and Television in Hong Kong

   By Eric Kit-wai Ma

   Series: Culture and Communication in Asia

   Ma looks at the ways in which the identity of Hong Kong citizens has changed in the 1990s especially since the handover to China in 1997. This is the first analysis which focuses on the role, in this process, of popular media in general and television in particular. The author specifically analyses...

   Published January 27th 1999 by Routledge