Taken In Hong Kong
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Take Back Our Future
Author: Ching Kwan Lee
language: en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date: 2019-11-15
In a comprehensive and theoretically novel analysis, Take Back Our Future unveils the causes, processes, and implications of the 2014 seventy-nine-day occupation movement in Hong Kong known as the Umbrella Movement. The essays presented here by a team of experts with deep local knowledge ask: how and why had a world financial center known for its free-wheeling capitalism transformed into a hotbed of mass defiance and civic disobedience? Take Back Our Future argues that the Umbrella Movement was a response to China's internal colonization strategies—political disenfranchisement, economic subsumption, and identity reengineering—in post-handover Hong Kong. The contributors outline how this historic and transformative movement formulated new cultural categories and narratives, fueled the formation and expansion of civil society organizations and networks both for and against the regime, and spurred the regime's turn to repression and structural closure of dissent. Although the Umbrella Movement was fraught with internal tensions, Take Back Our Future demonstrates that the movement politicized a whole generation of people who had no prior experience in politics, fashioned new subjects and identities, and awakened popular consciousness.
The Taking of Hong Kong
Author: Susanna Hoe
language: en
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
Release Date: 2009-10-01
. . . The first original contribution to the debate on the opium war in a very long time. -- Peter Wesley-Smith, author of Unequal Treaty 1898-1997--Relations between Britain and China have, for over 150 years, been inextricably bound up with the taking of Hong Kong on 26 January 1841. The man responsible - Britain's Plenipotentiary Captain Charles Elliot - was recalled by his government in disgrace and has also been vilified ever since by China. --This book tells a different story. Describing the taking of Hong Kong from Elliot's point of view - through the personal letters of himself and his wife Clara - it shows a man of intelligence, conscience and humanitarian instincts. On three occasions, for example, Elliot insisted on negotiating with the Chinese as British forces were poised to take the large and prosperous city of Canton. These revelations about Elliot's role, intentions and analysis are significant and could make an important difference to our understanding of the dynamics of Sino-British relations.--On a different level, the book explores how Charles, the private man, with his wife by his side, experienced events, rather than how Elliot the public figure reported them to the British Government. --This book is both for students and scholars of East Asian history and for the general reader. It also has appeal for readers of biography and letters, of naval history, of women's place in history and Victorian politics and mores. --Susanna Hoe is author of amongst other books, including Watching the Flag Come Down: An Englishwoman in Hong Kong 1987-97 (2007).-Derek Roebuck is author, co-author or editor of more than forty books in ten languages on law and legal history.-
Streets
Author: Jason Wordie
language: en
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
Release Date: 2002-03-01
In this book, Jason Wordie takes the reader on fifty tours through the urban and historic places of Hong Kong Island ranging from Central through Wan Chai, to Shau Kei Wan then to Shek O, along the south coast from Stanley to Aberdeen, completing a circuit of the Island through Pok Fu Lam, Kennedy Town to Sheung Wan. Each place is introduced with an essay that describes the area and the way it has changed, then the reader is taken on a walk around the area's streets with the important, interesting, curious and historically illuminating sites described and illustrated.