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Book SynopsisBetween 1949 and 1997, Hong Kong transformed from a struggling British colonial outpost into a global financial capital.
Made in Hong Kong delivers a new narrative of this metamorphosis, revealing Hong Kong both as a critical engine in the expansion and remaking of postwar global capitalism and as the linchpin of Sino-U.S. trade since the 1970s.
Trade ReviewThis is a magnificent book on how Hong Kong helped create concepts of the global. It is a very important contribution to our understanding of how postwar capitalism intensified and expanded. -- Odd Arne Westad, author of
The Cold War: A World HistoryHamilton highlights the dynamic, multilayered commercial, financial, family, and cultural networks between Hong Kong and the U.S., and unravels the deep-rooted ties established by students, industrialists, bankers, and academics over decades and generations. A sensitive, scholarly, and articulate study of migration, global capitalism, and U.S.-China and U.S.-Hong Kong relations. So timely. -- Elizabeth Sinn, author of
Pacific Crossing: California Gold, Chinese Migration, and the Making of Hong KongAn ambitious, provocative, and pathbreaking interpretation of the contributions of Hong Kong business elites to Sino-U.S. relations in the twentieth century. This work represents a major contribution to both international and economic history by raising questions and illuminating the nature of transnational networks and business institutions. -- Priscilla Roberts, coeditor of
Hong Kong in the Cold WarTable of ContentsAcknowledgments
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Introduction. Made in Hong Kong: Transpacific Networks and a New History of Globalization
1. Capitalist Transplants: Elite Refugees and the First Reorientations of Hong Kong
2. Christian Transplants: Nonelite Refugees and American Educational Outreach
3. Cold War Partners: Hong Kong’s “Refugee Colleges” and American Aid
4. The Turning Point: Li Choh-ming and Kuashang Strategies at Chinese University
5. Decolonization by Investment: American Social and Financial Capital in Hong Kong
6. The Kuashang Effect: American Social Capital and Hong Kong’s 1970s Takeoff
7. Leading the Way: Kuashang Brokers in China, 1971–1982
8. The Gatekeepers: Kuashang Strategies and a New Global Order, 1982–1992
Conclusion
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