Hong Kong Politics - Brian C. H. Fong

Hong Kong Politics

A Comparative Introduction
Buch | Hardcover
300 Seiten
2024 | 1st ed. 2024
Springer Verlag, Singapore
978-981-13-7959-8 (ISBN)
90,94 inkl. MwSt
Hong Kong Politics: A Comparative Introduction is a comprehensive and pioneering guide of this emerging field. It aims to advance scholarly understanding of Hong Kong’s political developments since the handover of sovereignty in 1997, using a comparative politics approach.
Hong Kong Politics: A Comparative Introduction is a comprehensive and pioneering guide of this emerging field. It aims to advance scholarly understanding of Hong Kong’s political developments since the handover of sovereignty in 1997, using a comparative politics approach. 
The book advances a unique integrated comparative framework for studying Hong Kong through geopolitical, autonomy, centre-periphery, democratisation, political-economic, and governance perspectives. It guides readers to understand and interpret the various political dimensions of Hong Kong in a comprehensive and holistic way. 
This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of comparative politics. Experienced political researchers in Hong Kong will find this book illuminating; while comparative political scholars worldwide would also find it a handy introductory text to the important case of Hong Kong. This book is also an excellent resource for instructors and students of Asian Studies, China Studies, and Hong Kong Studies.

Brian C. H. Fong is Full Professor in the College of Social Sciences at the National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan. His research focuses on great power competition, democratisation, and identity politics, producing more than 80 journal articles, book chapters, authored books, and so forth. He is the author of US-China Great Power Competition in the Indo-Pacifi c: A Tale of Two Hegemons (Edinburgh University Press, 2024) and lead editor of The Routledge Handbook of Great Power Competition (Routledge, 2024).

1. Introduction.- 2. Decentralization in Hong Kong in the Final Decades of British Rule.- 3. Process of Centralization in Hong Kong in Recent Years.- 4. Evolution of Hong Kongese Identity.- 5. Process of De-authorization.- 6. Process of Re-authorization.- 7. Governization.- 8. De-governization.- 9. Conclusion.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 10.8.2024
Reihe/Serie Hong Kong Studies Reader Series
Zusatzinfo Approx. 300 p.
Verlagsort Singapore
Sprache englisch
Maße 148 x 210 mm
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Politische Systeme
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Politische Theorie
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Staat / Verwaltung
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Vergleichende Politikwissenschaften
Schlagworte Hong Kong • Oligarchy • One Country, Two Systems • Rising China • urban politics
ISBN-10 981-13-7959-9 / 9811379599
ISBN-13 978-981-13-7959-8 / 9789811379598
Zustand Neuware
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