| Author | : Sally Blyth |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 308 |
| Release | : 1996 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
Contains first-hand accounts of life and times in Hong Kong from before the Second World War to the end of its life as a colonial territory. B/W illus.
| Author | : Martin Booth |
| Publisher | : Macmillan |
| Total Pages | : 354 |
| Release | : 2006-11-14 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9780312426262 |
The last work of the internationally known, Booker-shortlisted writer is a memoir of growing up in 1950s Hong Kong.
| Author | : Miroslav Sasek |
| Publisher | : Rizzoli Publications |
| Total Pages | : 64 |
| Release | : 2007-02-13 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : 0789315602 |
Like the other Sasek classics, this is a facsimile edition of the original book. The brilliant, vibrant illustrations have been meticulously preserved, remaining true to his vision more than 40 years later. Facts have been updated for the 21st-century, appearing on a "This is . . . Today" page at the back of the book. These charming illustrations, coupled with Sasek's witty, playful narrative, make for a perfect souvenir that will delight both children and their parents, many of whom will remember the series from their own childhoods. This is Hong Kong, first published in 1965, captures the enchantment and the contrasts of Hong Kong in the sixties. Roaring jets bring in the tourists; bamboo rickshaws taxi them through exotic streets fragrant with incense, roasting chestnuts, and honey-glazed Peking duck. Sasek shows you the sweeping panorama of gleaming Kowloon Bay framed by misty mountain ridges, then moves in for close-ups of laborers and hawkers, refugees from the mainland, and sailors of flame-red junks, and the strange "water people" who, it is said, never set foot on dry land.
| Author | : Chan LEE |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 2021-08-02 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9789463728447 |
This book analyzes how collective memory regarding the 1989 Beijing student movement and the Tiananmen crackdown was produced, contested, sustained, and transformed in Hong Kong between 1989 and 2019. Drawing on data gathered through multiple sources such as news reports, digital media content, vigil onsite surveys, population surveys, and in-depth interviews with activists, rally participants, and other stakeholders, it identifies six key processes in the dynamics of social remembering: memory formation, memory mobilization, memory institutionalization, intergenerational transfer, memory repair, and memory balkanization. Memories of Tiananmen demonstrates how a socially dominant collective memory, even one the state finds politically irritable, can be generated and maintained through constant negotiation and efforts by a wide range of actors. While the book mainly focuses on the interplay between political changes and Tiananmen commemoration in the historical period within which the society enjoyed a significant degree of civil liberties, it also discusses how the trajectory of the collective memory may take a drastic turn as Hong Kong's autonomy is abridged. The book promises to be a key reference for anyone interested in collective memory studies, social movement research, political communication, and China and Hong Kong studies.
| Author | : Isabel Sun Chao |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 308 |
| Release | : 2021-09-14 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781954854031 |
"A volume that demands to be held." --Los Angeles Review of Books True stories of glamour, drama, and tragedy told through five generations of a Shanghai family, from the last days of imperial rule to the Cultural Revolution. A high position bestowed by China's empress dowager grants power and wealth to the Sun family. For Isabel, growing up in glamorous 1930s and '40s Shanghai, it is a life of utmost privilege. But while her scholar father and fashionable mother shelter her from civil war and Japanese occupation, they cannot shield the family forever. When Mao comes to power, eighteen-year-old Isabel journeys to Hong Kong, not realizing that she will make it her home--and that she will never see her father again. She returns to Shanghai fifty years later with her daughter, Claire, to confront their family's past--one they discover is filled with love and betrayal, kidnappers and concubines, glittering palaces and underworld crime bosses. Lavishly illustrated and meticulously researched, Remembering Shanghai follows five generations from a hardscrabble village to the bright lights of Hong Kong. By turns harrowing and heartwarming, this vivid memoir explores identity, loss, and redemption against an epic backdrop. WINNER OF 20 LITERARY AND DESIGN AWARDS, INCLUDING: Writer's Digest GRAND PRIZE Rubery Book Award BOOK OF THE YEAR IAN Independent Author Network OUTSTANDING MEMOIR IPPY Independent Publisher Book Awards BEST FIRST BOOK Reader Views GLOBAL AWARD
| Author | : Yaowei Zhu |
| Publisher | : SUNY Press |
| Total Pages | : 230 |
| Release | : 2013-06-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1438446454 |
Looks at the fate of Hong Kong’s unique culture since its reversion to China.
| Author | : Zheng Wang |
| Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
| Total Pages | : 312 |
| Release | : 2012 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0231148909 |
Wang follows the Chinese Communist Party's ideological re-education of the public through the exploitation of China's humiliating modern history, tracking the CCP's use of history education to glorify the party, re-establish its legitimacy, consolidate national identity, and justify one-party rule in the post-Tiananmen and post-Cold War era.
| Author | : John M. Carroll |
| Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 283 |
| Release | : 2007-06-07 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0742574695 |
When the British occupied the tiny island of Hong Kong during the First Opium War, the Chinese empire was well into its decline, while Great Britain was already in the second decade of its legendary "Imperial Century." From this collision of empires arose a city that continues to intrigue observers. Melding Chinese and Western influences, Hong Kong has long defied easy categorization. John M. Carroll's engrossing and accessible narrative explores the remarkable history of Hong Kong from the early 1800s through the post-1997 handover, when this former colony became a Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China. The book explores Hong Kong as a place with a unique identity, yet also a crossroads where Chinese history, British colonial history, and world history intersect. Carroll concludes by exploring the legacies of colonial rule, the consequences of Hong Kong's reintegration with China, and significant developments and challenges since 1997.
| Author | : Tak-Wing Ngo |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 218 |
| Release | : 2002-09-11 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1134630956 |
Rewriting Hong Kong's history from the bottom up, the chapters investigate vital, but hitherto obscured, aspects of the colony's rise. They cover the Chinese collaboration with the colonial regime, legal discrimination and intimidation, rural politics, social movements, government-business relations, industrial policy, flexible manufacturing and colonial historiography. Drawing together contributions from historians, sociologists and political scientists, the book highlights the role played by a variety of social actors in Hong Kong's history and differs both from recent celebrations of British colonialism and anti-colonial Chinese nationalism.
