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UNINA9910451051403321 |
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Sing Ming <1960-> |
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Hong Kong's tortuous democratization [[electronic resource] ] : a comparative analysis / / Ming Sing |
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London ; ; New York, : RoutledgeCurzon, 2004 |
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1-280-05712-2 |
0-203-18040-2 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (320 p.) |
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RoutledgeCurzon contemporary China series ; ; 2 |
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Democracy - China - Hong Kong |
Democratization - China - Hong Kong |
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Hong Kong (China) Politics and government |
Hong Kong (China) Politics and government 1997- |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-299) and index. |
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Hong Kong's Tortuous Democratization A comparative analysis; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Foreword; Acknowledgments; 1 Studying Hong Kong from a comparative perspective: an anomaly for modernization theory (1980-mid-2002); 2 Hong Kong's democratization: outcome of bargaining among multiple actors; 3 Why was Hong Kong an anomaly before 1984? Lack of top-downand bottom-up democratization (1946-84); 4 Britain's first retreat from rapid democratization and formation of the first pro-democratic alliance |
5 Growing vibrancy of society-led democratic reform: polarization, compromise and decisions over Hong Kong's democratization (late-1986-90)6 Renewed British-led democratic reform from 1992 to 1994: ambivalence in public support for democratic reform; 7 Decline in popular mobilization for democracy and emergenceof PRC-initiated democratic reversal (1992-7); 8 Further democratic reversalin the post-handover period (mid-1997-2002); 9 Hong Kong as a rare anomaly to modernization theory; Appendix 1 Different blueprints for the legislature of 1997; Appendix 2 Details of interviews undertaken |
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Appendix 3 Member organizations of Joint Association of People's Organizations (JAPOD)Appendix 4 Member organizations of Democracy 2000; Appendix 5 Members of JCPDG; Appendix 6 Sources for Table 8.10; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
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This book raises interesting questions about the process of democratization in Hong Kong. It asks why democracy has been so long delayed when Hong Kong's level of socio-economic development has become so high. It relates democratization in Hong Kong to wider studies of the democratization process elsewhere, and it supplements the received wisdom - that democracy was delayed because of colonial rule and by the opposition of China - with new thinking, for example, that its quasi-bureaucratic authoritarian political structure vested power in bureaucrats who refused to have top-down democratizatio |
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UNINA9910824634003321 |
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McManamon John M. |
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Neither letters nor swimming : the rebirth of swimming and free-diving / / John M. McManamon |
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Leiden, Netherlands ; ; Boston, Massachusetts : , : Brill, , [2021] |
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©2021 |
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Brill's Studies in Maritime History ; ; 09 |
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Swimming - History |
Swimming - Study and teaching |
Swimming - Psychological aspects |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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In a novel study of the impact of classical culture, John McManamon demonstrates that Renaissance scholars rediscovered the importance of swimming to the ancient Greeks and Romans and conceptualized the teaching of swimming as an art. The ancients had a proverb that |
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described a truly ignorant person as knowing "neither letters nor swimming." McManamon traces the ancient textual and iconographic evidence for an art of swimming, demonstrates its importance in warfare, and highlights the activities of free-divers who exploited the skill of swimming to earn a living. Renaissance theorists of a humanist education first advocated a rebirth for swim training, Erasmus included the classical proverb in his Adages , and two sixteenth-century scholars wrote treatises in dialogue form on methods for teaching young people how to swim. |
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