Live and Work In Hong Kong

Live and Work In Hong Kong
Title Live and Work In Hong Kong PDF eBook
Author Rachel Wright
Publisher How To Books
Pages 222
Release 2013-12-05
Genre Travel
ISBN 1848036108

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Whatever your reasons for planning to live and work in Hong Kong, this comprehensive guide will tell you all you need to know to make the most of your time in this vibrant and challenging city. Organised into three sections: Living, Working, and Leisure, this book includes up to date information and well-informed opinion on: * The kind of lifestyle you can expect to enjoy in Hong Kong * The cost of living * Finding accommodation, whether short term or to buy or rent *Having and raising children in Hong Kong *Shopping for food or luxuries - Working and volunteering *Teaching English *Sporting events, special interest groups and the local arts scene *Travelling and places to visit *Entertainment and nightlife

Hong Kong in the Shadow of China

Hong Kong in the Shadow of China
Title Hong Kong in the Shadow of China PDF eBook
Author Richard C. Bush
Publisher Brookings Institution Press
Pages 395
Release 2016-10-11
Genre Political Science
ISBN 081572814X

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A close-up look at the struggle for democracy in Hong Kong. Hong Kong in the Shadow of China is a reflection on the recent political turmoil in Hong Kong during which the Chinese government insisted on gradual movement toward electoral democracy and hundreds of thousands of protesters occupied major thoroughfares to push for full democracy now. Fueling this struggle is deep public resentment over growing inequality and how the political system—established by China and dominated by the local business community—reinforces the divide been those who have profited immensely and those who struggle for basics such as housing. Richard Bush, director of the Brookings Institution’s Center on East Asia Policy Studies, takes us inside the demonstrations and the demands of the demonstrators and then pulls back to critically explore what Hong Kong and China must do to ensure both economic competitiveness and good governance and the implications of Hong Kong developments for United States policy.

Hong Kong & Macau

Hong Kong & Macau
Title Hong Kong & Macau PDF eBook
Author Jules Brown
Publisher Rough Guides
Pages 448
Release 2002
Genre Hong Kong (China)
ISBN 9781858288727

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This resource includes full details of Hong Kong harbour, its shopping and nightlife districts, traditional sites and off-the-beaten track areas of the New Territories and outlying islands. A history and a cultural guide is included, as well as places to eat, drink and sleep on every budget. Background information on post-handover politics and features on festivals, feng shui and Chinese astrology are also included.

Living in the Margins in Mainland China, Hong Kong and India

Living in the Margins in Mainland China, Hong Kong and India
Title Living in the Margins in Mainland China, Hong Kong and India PDF eBook
Author Wing Chung Ho
Publisher Routledge
Pages 230
Release 2020-05-06
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1000079287

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With a range of case studies from Asia, this book sheds light on empirical realizations of marginality in a globalized context using first-hand original research. In the late 2000s, the financial crisis witnessed the fragility of high levels of market integration and the vulnerability of globalisation. Since then, the world seems to have entered an epoch of anxiety featuring populism with varying degrees of protectionism and nationalism. What is the nature of this populist mood as a backlash against globalisation? How do people feel about it and act upon it? Why should specific intellectual attention be paid to the increasingly marginalised by the recent macroscopic structural changes? These are the questions addressed by the contributors of this book, illustrated with specific cases from mainland China, Hong Kong and India, all of which have undergone substantial populist or nationalist movements since 2010. A valuable resource for sociologists looking to understand the impacts of globalization, especially those with a particular interest in Asia.

Hong Kong Under Chinese Rule

Hong Kong Under Chinese Rule
Title Hong Kong Under Chinese Rule PDF eBook
Author Warren I. Cohen
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 272
Release 1997-05-28
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 9780521627610

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A balanced analysis of a sensitive subject: Hong Kong's future prospects.

Guangdong and Chinese Diaspora

Guangdong and Chinese Diaspora
Title Guangdong and Chinese Diaspora PDF eBook
Author Yow Cheun Hoe
Publisher Routledge
Pages 256
Release 2013-06-26
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1136171193

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China’s rapid economic growth has drawn attention to the Chinese diasporic communities and the multiple networks that link Chinese individuals and organizations throughout the world. Ethnic Chinese have done very well economically, and the role of the Chinese Diaspora in China’s economic success has created a myth that their relations with China is natural and primordial, and that regardless of their base outside China and generation of migration, the Chinese Diaspora are inclined to participate enthusiastically in China’s social and economic agendas. This book seeks to dispel such a myth. By focusing on Guangdong, the largest ancestral and native homeland, it argues that not all Chinese diasporic communities are the same in terms of mentality and orientation, and that their connections to the ancestral homeland vary from one community to another. Taking the two Cantonese-speaking localities of Panyu and Xinyi, Yow Cheun Hoe examines the hierarchy of power and politics of these two localities in terms of their diasporic kinsfolk in Singapore and Malaysia, in comparison with their counterparts in North America and Hong Kong. The book reveals that, particularly in China’s reform era since 1978, the arguably primordial sentiment and kinship are less than crucial in determining the content and magnitude of linkages between China and the overseas Chinese. Rather, it suggests that since 1978 business calculation and economic rationale are some of the key motivating factors in determining the destination and degree of diasporic engagement. Examining various forms of Chinese diasporic engagement with China, this book will appeal to students and scholars of Chinese Diaspora, Chinese culture and society, Southeast Asian culture and society and ethnicity.

Living Intersections: Transnational Migrant Identifications in Asia

Living Intersections: Transnational Migrant Identifications in Asia
Title Living Intersections: Transnational Migrant Identifications in Asia PDF eBook
Author Caroline Plüss
Publisher Springer Science & Business Media
Pages 281
Release 2012-03-13
Genre Social Science
ISBN 9400729669

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This book presents ground-breaking theoretical, and empirical knowledge to produce a fine-grained and encompassing understanding of the costs and benefits that different groups of Asian migrants, moving between different countries in Asia and in the West, experience. The contributors—all specialist scholars in anthropology, geography, history, political science, social psychology, and sociology—present new approaches to intersectionality analysis, focusing on the migrants’ performance of their identities as the core indicator to unravel the mutual constituitivity of cultural, social, political, and economic characteristics rooted in different places, which characterizes transnational lifestyles. The book answers one key question: What happens to people, communities, and societies under globalization, which is, among others, characterized by increasing cultural disidentification?