Hong Kong, China : learning to belong to a nation /

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Author / Creator:	Mathews, Gordon.
Imprint:	London ; New York : Routledge, ©2008.
Description:	1 online resource (xiv, 197 pages) : illustrations, maps
Language:	English
Series:	Routledge contemporary china series ; 23 Routledge contemporary China series ; 23.
Subject:	Nationalism -- China -- Hong Kong. Nationalism. Hong Kong (China) -- History. China -- Hong Kong. Electronic books. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12011194

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Other authors / contributors:	Lü, Dale. Ma, Jiewei.
ISBN:	9780203946510 0203946510 9781134091874 1134091877 9780415426541 0415426545
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-189) and index. Print version record.
Summary:	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.
Other form:	Print version: Mathews, Gordon. Hong Kong, China. London ; New York : Routledge, ©2008 0415426545 9780415426541

Table of Contents:

The significance of Hong Kong
Fleeing the nation, creating a local home, 1949-1983
Rejoining the nation : Hong Kong, 1983-2006
Representing the nation in the Hong Kong mass media
Hong Kong schools and the teaching of national identity
Hong Kong people's changing comprehensions of national identity
How American, Chinese, and Hong Kong university students understand "belonging to a nation"
Hong Kong people encountering the nation in south China
Hong Kong's market-based national identity : harbinger of a global future?

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