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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785294603321

Autore

Law Wing Sang

Titolo

Collaborative colonial power [[electronic resource] ] : the making of the Hong Kong Chinese / / Law Wing Sang

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hong Kong, : Hong Kong University Press

London, : Eurospan [distributor], 2009

ISBN

988-220-675-1

1-282-70875-9

9786612708756

988-8052-13-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (277 p.)

Collana

Hong Kong culture and society

Disciplina

951.25

Soggetti

Hong Kong (China) Colonial influence

Hong Kong (China) Civilization

Hong Kong (China) Politics and government

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

""Contents""; ""Series Foreword""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Introduction:  Coloniality and Hong Kong Chineseness""; ""I -  Collaboration and Institutions""; ""1 -  Social Fabric of a Collaborative Colonialism""; ""2 - Cultural Coloniality: The English Language and Schooling""; ""3 - Pedagogy of Imperialism:  Indirect Rule and HKU""; ""II -  Hong Kong In-Betweens""; ""4 - Double Identity of the Colonial Intelligentsia: Ho Kai""; ""5 - Chinese Cultural Nationalism and Southern Localism""; ""6 - Cultural Cold War and the Diasporic Nation""; ""III -  Lingering Colonialism""

""7 - Indigenizing Colonial Power and the Return to China""""8 - Northbound Colonialism:  Reinventing Hong Kong Chinese""; ""Conclusion:  Re-theorizing Colonial Power""; ""Character List""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""

Sommario/riassunto

The contents of this work cover the social fabric of a collaborative colonialism, Chinese cultural nationalism and southern localism, cultural Cold War and the disaporic nation and much more.