We tested 50 cats from coronavirus disease households or close contacts in Hong Kong, China, for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 RNA in respiratory and fecal samples. We found 6 cases ...of apparent human-to-feline transmission involving healthy cats. Virus genomes sequenced from 1 cat and its owner were identical.
Legal mobilization is the process by which individuals invoke their legal rights and use litigation to defend or develop these rights against the government. In recent years, increasing attention has ...been paid to this phenomenon as it occurs under authoritarian regimes. It is often suggested that, in such situations, legal mobilization is caused by the strategic interests of the ruling elites. Using the case study of post-colonial Hong Kong, where legal mobilization has by no means unfolded as political authorities would wish, Waikeung Tam casts doubt on this contention. To do so, he examines in depth why and how legal mobilization arises under authoritarianism. Tam analyses quantitative data of changes in the Hong Kong judiciary agendas over the last three decades and uses detailed interviews with activists, politicians, cause lawyers, judges and government officials to reveal the complex underlying socio-political forces at play.
In the tumultuous negotiations of the Sino-British Joint Declaration of 1984, the United Kingdom willingly signed over Hong Kong's reigns to the People's Republic of China, but with the ...presupposition that the PRC would faithfully implement the principle of "one country, two systems" for the following fifty years. Yet since the handover in 1997, the PRC has failed to allow Hong Kong a higher degree of autonomy. "One Country, Two Systems" in Crisis elucidates how China's intervention has curtailed Hong Kong's civil liberties; how freedom of speech is at the mercy of the government; and how deception has turned the "Pearl of the Orient" into the rubber stamp of the Chinese Communist Party.
Hong Kong, China Mathews, Gordon; Ma, Eric; Lui, Tai-Lok
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The idea of ‘national identity’ is an ambiguous one for Hong Kong. Returned to the national embrace of China on 1 July 1997 after 150 years as a British colony, the concept of national identity and ...what it means to "belong to a nation" is a matter of great tension and contestation in Hong Kong.
Written by three academic specialists on Hong Kong cultural identity, social history, and mass media, this book explores the processes through which the people of Hong Kong are "learning to belong to a nation" by examining their relationship with the Chinese nation and state in the recent past, present, and future. It considers the complex meanings of and debates over national identity in Hong Kong over the past fifty years and especially during the last decade following Hong Kong’s return to China. It also places these arguments within a larger, global perspective, to ask what Hong Kong can teach us about national identity and its potential transformations.
Multidisciplinary in its approach, Hong Kong and China explores national identity in terms of theory, mass media, survey date, ethnography and history, and will appeal to students and scholars of Chinese history, cultural studies, and nationalism.
Gordon Mathews teaches in the Department of Anthropology, the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Eric Kit-wai Ma teaches in the School of Journalism and Communication, the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Tai-lok Lui teaches in the Department of Sociology, the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
'..how do Hongkongers themselves view their identity, and how is their relationship to the Chinese nation changing? These are the questions addressed in this important and highly readable book. It highlights the peculiar ambivalence of Hongkongers’ affective ties to “China,” attributing this to a history of mass flight from Communism, colonial depoliticization and economic success.' -The China Review, Vol. 8, No. 2 (Fall 2008)
' this book is undoubtedly one of the most important works on the dynamics of identity change in Hong Kong. Students, teachers, and researchers will find it very useful, insightful, and valuable' - Sonny Lo, China Perspectives (Spring 2009)
1 The Significance of Hong Kong; 2: Fleeing the Nation, Creating a Local Home, 1949-1983; 3: Rejoining the Nation, 1983-2006; 4: Representing the Nation in Hong Kong Mass Media; 5: Hong Kong Schools and the Teaching of National Identity; 6: Hong Kong People’s Changing Comprehensions of National Identity; 7: How American, Chinese, and Hong Kong University Students Understand "Belonging to a Nation"; 8: Hong Kong People Encountering the Nation in South China; 9: Hong Kong’s Market-based National Identity: Harbinger of a Global Future?
Drawing on almost fifty years of research and first-hand experience, Elizabeth Lominska Johnson and Graham E. Johnson have produced a masterpiece of ethnography, a fine-grained study of the ...transformation of a rural district into a chaotic industrial—and now post-industrial—city. Their work has implications far beyond its specific location; scholars of history, anthropology and sociology, urban planning, ethnomusicology, women’s studies, political science, ethnic relations, and China studies in general will all find it meaningful. Tsuen Wan was incorporated into colonial Hong Kong in 1898. The original inhabitants were Hakka who were guaranteed land rights, which were central to later developments. After the Japanese war, the town was overwhelmed by vast numbers of immigrants—fleeing civil war and revolution—seeking employment in rapidly developing industries. The newcomers were welcomed as tenants, but in the absence of firm planning guidelines, their number far exceeded the town’s capacity to house and accommodate them. The original inhabitants were firmly rooted in villages and elaborate kinship organizations; the immigrants similarly relied on voluntary associations to help them face the many challenges that change brought into their lives. Over time, the government became more interventionist and developed Tsuen Wan as the first planned new town in Hong Kong’s New Territories. In recent years, the culture of the original inhabitants has been diluted and differences among immigrants have diminished as all have assumed a general Hong Kong identity.
This is the story of a paradox that both limited and stimulated Hong Kong's post-war economy. The book examines how Hong Kong handled, by negotiation, attempts by developed economies to limit ...international trade through protective measures.
In 1899, a year after the Convention of Peking leased the New Territories to Britain, the British moved to establish control. This triggered resistance by the some of the population of the New ...Territories. There ensued six days of fighting with heavy Chin
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