Understanding the political culture of Hong Kong : the paradox of activism and depoliticization /
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| Author / Creator: | Lam, Wai-man. |
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| Imprint: | Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, c2004. |
| Description: | xxvi, 292 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Hong Kong becoming China Asia and the Pacific Asia and the Pacific (Armonk, N.Y.) |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5159557 |
Table of Contents:
- List of Tables
- List of Abbreviations and Acronyms
- Foreword: Hong Kong Political Activism Rediscovered
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Hong Kong-Rethinking Political Activism
- 1. A Critique of the Claims on Political Indifference
- The Traditional Argument of Political Apathy
- Surveys on Political Attitudes
- A Critique of Siu-kai Lau's Concept of Political Aloofness
- Conclusion
- 2. An Alternative Understanding of Political Participation
- A Critique of the Orthodox Definition
- Toward a Contextual Understanding of Political Participation
- An Informed Definition of Political Participation
- Conclusion
- 3. A Multiple-Case Interpretive Approach
- Historical Nature of the Study
- Collective Dimension of Public Action
- Contextual Understanding of Events
- Alternative Interpretation
- The Question of Generality
- A Multiple-Case Interpretive Approach
- Conclusion
- 4. Rebutting the Minimal Political Participation Claim
- A Chronology of Significant Political Events
- Statistics and Major Events of Political Participation
- A New Comparison of Political Participation
- Conclusion
- 5. Rediscovering Politics: Hong Kong between 1949 and 1959
- The Campaign for Rent Control
- The Campaign to Change the Marriage Laws
- The Tramway Workers' Labor Dispute of 1952
- The 1956 Riots
- The Campaign to Remove a Marriage Ban on Nurses at the Tung Wah Group of Hospitals
- An Overview
- 6. Rediscovering Politics: Hong Kong in the 1960s
- The 1964 Campaign against Telephone Rate Increases
- The 1966 Star Ferry Riots
- The First Campaign for Chinese as an Official Language
- An Overview
- 7. Rediscovering Politics: Hong Kong in the 1970s
- The Campaign for Equal Pay for Nurses
- Defend the Diaoyutai Islands Movement of 1970
- The Godber Issue
- The 1975 Campaign against Telephone Rate Increases
- The Campaign to Reopen the Precious Blood Golden Jubilee Secondary School
- An Overview
- 8. Political Discourses and Political Activism
- Competing National Identities
- Liberalism
- Rights and Economic Fairness
- Criticisms of Colonialism
- Conclusion
- 9. The Culture of Depoliticization and Political Activism
- The Trajectory of the Culture of Depoliticization
- The Making of a Depoliticized Culture
- Beyond Political Indifference
- Conclusion
- 10. Conclusion
- Epilogue
- Change of Sovereignty and Limited Electoral Reform
- Political Activism
- Patterns of Political Participation
- The Paradox of Activism and Depoliticization
- The Discourse of Political Indifference
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
