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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784682903321

Titolo

Remaking citizenship in Hong Kong : community, nation, and the global city / / edited by Agnes S. Ku, Ngai Pun ; foreword by Bryan S. Turner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2004

ISBN

1-134-32112-0

1-134-32113-9

1-280-28940-6

1-282-37364-1

9786612373640

9786610289400

0-203-64946-X

0-203-40033-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (263 p.)

Collana

RoutledgeCurzon studies in Asia's transformations ; ; 1

Altri autori (Persone)

KuAgnes S. M. <1965->

PunNgai <1970->

Disciplina

323.6/095125

Soggetti

Citizenship - China - Hong Kong

Political participation - China - Hong Kong

Hong Kong (China) Emigration and immigration

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Half-Title; Series-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Citizenship as a form of governance; 2 Welfare good or colonial citizenship?; 3 Civic education and the making of deformed citizenry; 4 The making of the "ideal citizen" in schooling processes; 5 Politics of incorporation and exclusion; 6 Hong Kong as a semi-ethnocracy; 7 Lived citizenship and lower-class Chinese migrant women; 8 Negotiating law, rights, and civil autonomy; 9 Engendering citizenship; 10 (Post-)identity politics and antinormalization

11 In search of a communal economic subject12 One country, three systems?; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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.