Hong Kong: The Global City examines the developmental history of Hong Kong, focusing on its rise to the status of a Chinese global city in the world economy, and its social and political correlates between the 1970s to the 1990s. Chiu and Lui's analysis is distinct in its perspective of the developm[...]
In this book a world-system perspective is adopted to explain the economic success and political stability of East Asian development. The authors begin with a review of the world-system perspective, exploring its intellectual heritage, the historical context through which it arose, its basic assumpt[...]
This book is a collection of the best and latest studies on how the Hong Kong government is repositioning itself in the economy and society under the pressures of globalization, economic restructuring and the rise of the civil society.[...]