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Título: Made in Hong Kong
Condición: Nuevo
EAN: 9780231184854
ISBN: 9780231184854
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Formato: Tapa blanda
Fecha de publicación: 05/01/2021
Altura del artículo: 229mm
Longitud del artículo: 152mm
Autor: Peter E. Hamilton
Idioma: inglés
Subtítulos: Transpacific Networks and a New History of Globalization
ISBN-10: 0231184859
Description: 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 the linchpin of Sino-U.S. trade since the 1970s.

Peter E. Hamilton explores the role of an overlooked transnational Chinese elite who fled to Hong Kong amid war and revolution. Despite losing material possessions, these industrialists, bankers, academics, and other professionals retained crucial connections to the United States. They used these relationships to enmesh themselves and Hong Kong with the U.S. through commercial ties and higher education. By the 1960s, Hong Kong had become a manufacturing powerhouse supplying American consumers, and by the 1970s it was the world’s largest sender of foreign students to American colleges and universities. Hong Kong’s reorientation toward U.S. international leadership enabled its transplanted Chinese elites to benefit from expanding American influence in Asia and positioned them to act as shepherds to China’s reengagement with global capitalism. After China’s reforms accelerated under Deng Xiaoping, Hong Kong became a crucial node for China’s export-driven development, connecting Chinese labor with the U.S. market.

Analyzing untapped archival sources from around the world, this book demonstrates why we cannot understand postwar globalization, China’s economic rise, or today’s Sino-U.S. trade relationship without centering Hong Kong.
País/Región de fabricación: US
Serie: Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
Género: History
Año de publicación: 2021

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