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Author : I.C. Jarvie
Release : 2013-07-04
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 268/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Hong Kong by : I.C. Jarvie
Download or read book Hong Kong written by I.C. Jarvie. This book was released on 2013-07-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is Volume IV in a series of six on the Sociology of East Asia. Originally published in 1969, the aim was to fill the lack of sociological studies of Hong Kong at the time.
Author : Yiu-Wai Chu
Release : 2017-03-15
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 683/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Hong Kong Culture and Society in the New Millennium by : Yiu-Wai Chu
Download or read book Hong Kong Culture and Society in the New Millennium written by Yiu-Wai Chu. This book was released on 2017-03-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses the notion of “Hong Kong as Method” as it relates to the rise of China in the context of Asianization. It explores new Hong Kong imaginaries with regard to the complex relationship between the local, the national and the global. The major theoretical thrust of the book is to address the reconfiguration of Hong Kong’s culture and society in an age of global modernity from the standpoints of different disciplines, exploring the possibilities of approaching Hong Kong as a method. Through critical inquiries into different fields related to Hong Kong’s culture and society, including gender, resistance and minorities, various perspectives on the country’s culture and society can be re-assessed. New directions and guidelines related to Hong Kong are also presented, offering a unique resource for researchers and students in the fields of cultural studies, media studies, postcolonial studies, globalization and Asian studies.
Author : Siu-kai Lau
Release : 1984
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 360/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Society and Politics in Hong Kong by : Siu-kai Lau
Download or read book Society and Politics in Hong Kong written by Siu-kai Lau. This book was released on 1984. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Marjorie Topley
Release : 2011-01-01
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 146/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Cantonese Society in Hong Kong and Singapore by : Marjorie Topley
Download or read book Cantonese Society in Hong Kong and Singapore written by Marjorie Topley. This book was released on 2011-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume collects the published articles of Dr. Marjorie Topley, who was a pioneer in the field of social anthropology in the postwar period and also the first president of the revived Hong Kong Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society. Her ethnographic research in Singapore and Hong Kong set a high standard for urban anthropology, and helped creating the fields of religious studies, migration studies, gender studies, and medical anthropology, focusing on topics that remain current and important in the disciplines. The essays in this collection showcase Dr. Topley's groundbreaking contributions in several areas of scholarship. These include “Chinese Women’s Vegetarian Houses in Singapore” (1954) and “The Great Way of Former Heaven: A Group of Chinese Secret Religious Sects” (1963), both important research on the study of subcultural groups in a complex urban society; “Marriage Resistance in Rural Kwangtung” (1978), now a classic in Chinese anthropology and women’s studies; her widely known and cited article, “Cosmic Antagonisms: A Mother-Child Syndrome” (1974), which investigates widely shared everyday practices and cosmological explanations that Cantonese mothers invoked when they encountered difficulties in child-rearing; and “Capital, Saving and Credit among Indigenous Rice Farmers and Immigrant Vegetable Farmers in Hong Kong's New Territories” (2004 [1964]).
Author : Benjamin K. P. Leung
Release : 1996
Genre : Social Science
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Book Synopsis Perspectives on Hong Kong Society by : Benjamin K. P. Leung
Download or read book Perspectives on Hong Kong Society written by Benjamin K. P. Leung. This book was released on 1996. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the socio-economic and political aspects of Hong Kong society through a study of existing research and writing. It is of interest to any reader wishing to gain an understanding of Hong Kong society - its past and current developments, as well as its future directions.
