Description
Book SynopsisA major contribution to the scholarship on British decolonisation, the cultural history of imperialism and British engagement with China. This highly original study places the emergence of contemporary Hong Kong in the wider, post-imperial setting. -- .
Trade Review'A richly detailed study of Britain's cultural engagement with one of its most successful if under-studied colonies, Hampton does a wonderful job of showing us how Britain imagined Hong Kong and its people, how Britons actually lived in the colony and how locals regarded the British presence in an era of decolonisation. Hampton plumbs a wide array of materials to furnish us with this invigorating and original, as well as immensely readable, study.'
Philippa Levine, the University of Texas
‘…a well-written and original study that deserves to be widely read.’
Tanja Bueltmann, Northumbria University, The American Historical Review, Vol 122, Issue 1
-- .
Table of ContentsIntroduction
1. Hong Kong and British culture: postwar contexts
2. The discourse of unbridled capitalism in post-war Hong Kong
3. A man’s playground
4. The discourses of order and modernisation
5. Good governance
6. Chinese Britishness
7. Narratives of 1997
Epilogue: Colonial hangovers
Bibliography
Index
