Hong Kong, China

Learning to belong to a nation
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-415-48013-0
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 212 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 330 g

Reihe: Routledge Contemporary China Series

The idea of ‘national identity’ is an ambiguous one for Hong Kong. Returned to the national embrace of China on 1 July 1997 after 150 years as a British colony, the concept of national identity and what it means to "belong to a nation" is a matter of great tension and contestation in Hong Kong.

Written by three academic specialists on Hong Kong cultural identity, social history, and mass media, this book explores the processes through which the people of Hong Kong are "learning to belong to a nation" by examining their relationship with the Chinese nation and state in the recent past, present, and future. It considers the complex meanings of and debates over national identity in Hong Kong over the past fifty years and especially during the last decade following Hong Kong’s return to China. It also places these arguments within a larger, global perspective, to ask what Hong Kong can teach us about national identity and its potential transformations.

Multidisciplinary in its approach, Hong Kong and China explores national identity in terms of theory, mass media, survey date, ethnography and history, and will appeal to students and scholars of Chinese history, cultural studies, and nationalism.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mathews, Gordon

Ma, Eric

Lui, Tai-Lok

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Naturwissenschaften, Technik, Medizin
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Geisteswissenschaften
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Futurologie (Interdisziplinär)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. The Significance of Hong Kong 2. Fleeing the Nation, Creating a Local Home, 1949-1983 3. Rejoining the Nation, 1983-2006 4. Representing the Nation in Hong Kong Mass Media 5. Hong Kong Schools and the Teaching of National Identity 6. Hong Kong People’s Changing Comprehensions of National Identity 7. How American, Chinese, and Hong Kong University Students Understand "Belonging to a Nation" 8. Hong Kong People Encountering the Nation in South China 9. Hong Kong’s Market-Based National Identity: Harbinger of a Global Future?

Über Autor(innen)

Gordon Mathews teaches in the Department of Anthropology, the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Eric Kit-wai Ma teaches in the School of Journalism and Communication, the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Tai-lok Lui teaches in the Department of Sociology, the Chinese University of Hong Kong.