Carol A. G. Jones

Lost in China?

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Since 1997, the walls of law around Hong Kong have come under attack. This book examines the strategies of resistance.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. April 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 568g
• ISBN-13: 9781107093379
• ISBN-10: 1107093376
• Artikelnr.: 42139547

Autorenporträt

Carol Jones taught at universities in Hong Kong from 1990 to 2002, and remains involved academically there. She has written extensively about the role of law in Hong Kong's history and society, and she has a particular interest in how ideas about the law have shaped and been shaped by Hong Kong's colonial and postcolonial development.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: the lie of the land
1. Walls of law
2. The transition: fears and fantasies
3. Danger, death and disappearance
4. The disappearance of Yu Man Hon
5. Patrolling the walls of law
6. The law wars - wayward children and the right of abode cases
7. The law wars - the flag cases
8. The law wars - Article 23 and the 1 July 2003 march
9. The law wars - law as politics, politics as law
10. The law wars - law and civil society
11. The law wars - interpreting the law
12. The culture wars - globalism, nationalism and localism
13. The culture wars - creating the nation
14. The culture wars - education and the cultivation of identity
15. The culture wars - history, identity and the nostalgia boom
16. The culture wars - freedom of the press
17. Conclusion: lost and found.