Made in Hong Kong : : Transpacific Networks and a New History of Globalization / / Peter E. Hamilton.
Between 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 t...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2021] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource :; 25 b&w photographs |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Language
- Abbreviations
- introduction Made in Hong Kong: Transpacific Networks and a New History of Globalization
- I. Capitalist Transplants: Elite Refugees and the First Reorientations of Hong Kong
- II. Christian Transplants: Nonelite Refugees and American Educational Outreach
- III. Cold War Partners: Hong Kong’s “Refugee Colleges” and American Aid
- IV. The Turning Point: Li Choh- ming and Kuashang Strategies at Chinese University
- V. Decolonization by Investment: American Social and Financial Capital in Hong Kong
- VI. The Kuashang Effect: American Social Capital and Hong Kong’s 1970s Takeoff
- VII. Leading the Way: Kuashang Brokers in China, 1971– 1982
- VIII. The Gatekeepers: Kuashang Strategies and a New Global Order, 1982– 1992
- Conclusion
- Abbreviations in Notes
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index