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Summary:

The Cold War was a distinct and crucial period in Hong Kong's evolution and in its relations with China and the rest of the world. Hong Kong was a window through which the West could monitor what was happening in China and an outlet that China could use to keep in touch with the outside world. Exploring the many complexities of Cold War politics from a global and interdisciplinary perspective, Hong Kong in the Cold War shows how Hong Kong attained and honed a pragmatic tradition that bridged the abyss between such opposite ideas as capitalism and communism, thus maintaining a compromise betwee.

Table of Contents:

• Hong Kong's twentieth century: the global setting / Wang Gungwu
• Cold War Hong Kong : the foundations / Priscilla Roberts
• Cold War Hong Kong : juggling opposing forces and identities / Priscilla Roberts
• Hong Kong's enduring global business relations / David R. Meyer
• Hong Kong and the Cold War in the 1950s / Tracy Steele
• The American Cold War in Hong Kong, 1949-1960 : intelligence and propaganda / Lu Xun
• Crisis and opportunity : the work of aid refugee Chinese intellectuals (ARCI in Hong Kong and beyond / Glen Peterson
• Hong Kong as an international tourism space : the politics of American tourism in the 1960s / Chi-Kwan Mark
• "Reel sisters" and other diplomacy : Cathay Studios and Cold War cultural production / Stacilee Ford
• Hong Kong as a global frontier : interface of China, Asia and the world / Prasenjit Duara
• Cold War Hong Kong : a path to the future? / Priscilla Roberts.

Contributors:

Roberts, Priscilla Mary, 1955- , author, editor

Carroll, John M. (John Mark), 1961- , editor

Meetings:

Hong Kong in the Global Setting (Conference) (2011 : Hong Kong)

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Hong Kong in the Cold War (Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, [2016] — ISBN 9789888208005)

Subjects:

Hong Kong (China) — History — 20th century — Congresses

Hong Kong (China) — Relations — China — History — 20th century — Congresses

China — Relations — China — Hong Kong — History — 20th century — Congresses

1900-1999

Relations

China

China — Hong Kong

Genres:

Conference papers and proceedings

History

General Notes:

Most of the chapters in this volume are based on papers originally delivered at an international workshop entitled 'Hong Kong in the Global Setting' held at the University of Hong Kong in January 2011--Acknowledgements.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on: Print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

DS796.H757 H66 2016eb

ISBNs:

9789888390106 (electronic bk.)
9888390104 (electronic bk.)
9789888208005 [Invalid]
9888208004 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

968793657

Other Control Numbers:

EBC4724633 (source: MiAaPQ)
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