Binding: Hardcover
Description: For decades Hong Kong has maintained precarious freedom at the edge of competing world powers. In City on the Edge Ho - fung Hung offers a timely and engaging account of Hong Kong's development from precolonial times to the present with particular focus on the post 1997 handover period. Through careful analysis of vast economic data a myriad of political events and intricate networks of actors and ideas Hung offers readers insight into the fraught economic political and social forces that led to the 2019 uprising while situating the protests in the context of global finance and the geopolitics of the US - China rivalry. A provocative contribution to the discussion on Hong Kong's position in today's world City on the Edge demonstrates that the resistance and repression of 2019 - 2020 does not spell the end of Hong Kong but the beginning of a long conflict with global repercussions.
Title: City On The Edge Hong Kong Under Chinese Rule
Author(s): Hung Ho - Fung (The Johns Hopkins University Maryland)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Barcode: 9781108840330
Pages: 316 Pages, Worked Examples Or Exercises
Publication Date: 5/19/2022
Category: Geopolitics