Keeping Democracy at Bay - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Keeping Democracy at Bay write by Suzanne Pepper. This book was released on 2008. Keeping Democracy at Bay available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This thoroughly researched study provides an invaluable account of Hong Kong's political evolution from its founding as a British colony to the present. Exploring the interplay between colonial, capitalist, communist, and democratic forces in shaping Hong Kong's political institutions and culture, Suzanne Pepper offers a fresh perspective on the territory's development and a gripping account of the transition from British to Chinese rule. The author carries her narrative forward through the lives of significant figures, capturing the personalities and issues central to understanding Hong Kong's political history. Bringing a balanced view to her often contentious subject, she places Hong Kong's current partisan debates between democrats and their opponents within the context of China's ongoing search for a viable political form. The book considers Beijing's increasing intervention in local affairs and focuses on the challenge for Hong Kong's democratic reformers in an environment where ultimate political power resides with the communist-led mainland government and its appointees.
Keeping Democracy Alive
Keeping Democracy Alive - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Keeping Democracy Alive write by Walton Elbert Cole. This book was released on 194?. Keeping Democracy Alive available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Hong Kong and British culture, 1945–97
Hong Kong and British culture, 1945–97 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Hong Kong and British culture, 1945–97 write by Mark Hampton. This book was released on 2015-11-01. Hong Kong and British culture, 1945–97 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book examines the British cultural engagement with Hong Kong in the second half of the twentieth century. It shows how the territory fit unusually within Britain’s decolonisation narratives and served as an occasional foil for examining Britain’s own culture during a period of perceived stagnation and decline. Drawing on a wide range of archival and published primary sources, Hong Kong and British culture, 1945–97 investigates such themes as Hong Kong as a site of unrestrained capitalism, modernisation, and good government, as well as an arena of male social and sexual opportunity. It also examines the ways in which Hong Kong Chinese embraced British culture, and the competing predictions that British observers made concerning the colony’s return to Chinese sovereignty. An epilogue considers the enduring legacy of British colonialism. This book will be essential reading for historians of Hong Kong, British decolonisation, and Britain’s culture of declinism.
Hong Kong Documentary Film
Hong Kong Documentary Film - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Hong Kong Documentary Film write by Ian Aitken. This book was released on 2014-03-17. Hong Kong Documentary Film available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Described as the 'lost genre', the tradition of documentary film making in Hong Kong is far less known than its martial arts films. However documentary film has always existed in Hong Kong and often trenchantly represents its troubled relationship to itself, China and the west. Including the period of colonial film-making, the high points of television documentary and the tradition of independent documentary film-making, this book is the first to present a comprehensive study of this lost genre. It explores the role of public-service television (including representations of the massacre at Tiananmen Square) and presents critical analysis of key films. Based on original archival research, it will be an invaluable resource for students and academics who work in the fields if film studies, colonial studies and Hong Kong cinema.
Politics in China
Politics in China - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Politics in China write by William A. Joseph. This book was released on 2014-03-14. Politics in China available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. On October 1, 2009, the People's Republic of China (PRC) celebrated the 60th anniversary of its founding. And what an eventful and tumultuous six decades it had been. During that time, under the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), China was transformed from one of the world's poorest countries into the world's fastest growing major economy, and from a weak state barely able to govern or protect its own territory to a rising power that is challenging the United States for global influence. Over those same years, the PRC also experienced the most deadly famine in human history, caused largely by the actions and inactions of its political leaders. Not long after, there was a collapse of government authority that pushed the country to the brink of (and in some places actually into) civil war and anarchy. Today, China is, for the most part, peaceful, prospering, and proud. This is the China that was on display for the world to see during the Beijing Olympics in 2008. The CCP maintains a firm grip on power through a combination of popular support largely based on its recent record of promoting rapid economic growth and harsh repression of political opposition. Yet, the party and country face serious challenges on many fronts, including a slowing economy, environmental desecration, pervasive corruption, extreme inequalities, and a rising tide of social protest. Politics in China is an authoritative introduction to how the world's most populous nation and rapidly rising global power is governed today. Written by leading China scholars, the book's chapters offers accessible overviews of major periods in China's modern political history from the mid-nineteenth century to the present, key topics in contemporary Chinese politics, and developments in four important areas located on China's geographic periphery: Tibet, Xinjiang, Hong Kong, and Taiwan.
