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Hong Kong
Becoming a Chinese Global City
Series: Asia's Transformations/Asia's Great Cities
Hong Kong is a small city with a big reputation. As mainland China has become an 'economic powerhouse' Hong Kong has taken a route of development of its own, flourishing as an entrepot and a centre of commerce and finance for Chinese business, then as an industrial city and subsequently a regional...
Published June 3rd 2009 by Routledge
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Hong Kong, China
Learning to belong to a nation
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