Consuming Hong Kong
by Project Muse, Mathews, Gordon, Lü, Dale
fromUPCC book collections on Project MUSE
by Project Muse, Mathews, Gordon, Lü, Dale
fromUPCC book collections on Project MUSE
by Project Muse, Mathews, Gordon, Lü, Dale
fromUPCC book collections on Project MUSE
This book shows how the detailed ehtnographic study of consumption in Hong Kong can lead to a deeper understanding of Hong Kong life as a whole, as well as of consumption in the world at large.
This book contains nine essays written by distinguished scholars from North America. Europe, and Asia, and provides an in-depth examination of the socio-legal developments of drug control in different countries. Important rational approaches to the formulation of drug policy are…
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 contesta…
"Written by three academic specialists on cultural identity, social history, and the mass media, this book explores the processes through which the people of Hong Kong are "learning to belong to a nation" by examining their shifting relationship with the Chinese nation and state…