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Remaking Citizenship in Hong Kong Bryan S. Turner (Australian Catholic University, Australia)

Remaking Citizenship in Hong Kong By Bryan S. Turner (Australian Catholic University, Australia)

Remaking Citizenship in Hong Kong by Bryan S. Turner (Australian Catholic University, Australia)


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Hong Kong has been undergoing considerable changes since its postcolonial independence. The authors provide a detailed comparative account of the development of citizenship and civil society in Hong Kong from its time as a British colony to its current status as a special autonomous region of China.

Remaking Citizenship in Hong Kong Summary

Remaking Citizenship in Hong Kong: Community, nation and the global city by Bryan S. Turner (Australian Catholic University, Australia)

This book provides a detailed comparative account of the development of citizenship and civil society in Hong Kong from its time as a British colony to its current status as a special autonomous region of China.

Remaking Citizenship in Hong Kong Reviews

'The authors provide insightful analyses on the complex interwining between state and market and between doemstic politics and the global economy.' - The China Journal

'All the chapters reflect familiarity with contemporary general literature on their respective themes, considerable fieldwork and research, as well as insights derived from having personally experienced many of the changes presented in academic prose here.' - Michael Yahuda, LSE, in Political Studies Review

'[T]his is a book of great value in terms of its research agenda as well as theoretical and empirical contributions.' - Lam Wai-Man, China Perspectives, No. 2, 2007


'The authors provide insightful analyses on the complex interwining between state and market and between doemstic politics and the global economy.' - The China Journal

'All the chapters reflect familiarity with contemporary general literature on their respective themes, considerable fieldwork and research, as well as insights derived from having personally experienced many of the changes presented in academic prose here.' - Michael Yahuda, LSE, in Political Studies Review

About Bryan S. Turner (Australian Catholic University, Australia)

Agnes S. Ku is Associate Professor of Social Science at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

Ngai Pun is Assistant Professor of Social Science at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

Table of Contents

List of Tables Acknowledgments Foreword Introduction 1. Introduction: Remaking Citizenship in Hong Kong Part 1: State, Institutions, and Ideologies 2. Citizenship as a Form of Governance: A Historical Overview 3. Welfare Good or Colonial Citizenship? A Case Study of Early Resettlement Housing 4. Civic Education and the Making of Deformed Citizenry: From British Colony to Chinese Sar 5. The Making of 'Ideal Citizen' in Schooling Processes: Gender, Differences and Inequalities Part 2: Migration, Belonging, and Exclusion 6. Politics of Incorporation and Exclusion: Citizenship and Immigration Issues 7. Hong Kong as a Semi-Ethnocracy: 'Race', Migration, and Citizenship in a Globalized Region 8. Lived Citizenship and Lower Class Chinese Migrant Women: A Global City without its People Part 3: Civil Society, Resistance, and Participation 9. Negotiating Law, Rights, and Civil Autonomy: From the Colonial to the Post-Colonial Regimes 10. En-Gendering Citizenship 11. (Post-)Identity Politics and Anti-Normalization: (Homo)Sexual Rights Movement 12. In Search of Communal Economic Subject - Reflections on a Local Community Currency Project 13. One Country, Three Systems? State, Nation, and Civil Society in the Making of Citizenship in the Chinese Triangle of Mainland-Taiwan-Hong Kong Index Contributors

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NLS9780415396721
9780415396721
0415396727
Remaking Citizenship in Hong Kong: Community, nation and the global city by Bryan S. Turner (Australian Catholic University, Australia)
New
Paperback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
2006-08-10
288
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