Social Transformations in Chinese Societies: Volume 18 Issue 1

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Hong Kong as a property jurisdiction

Maurice K.-C. Yip

This study aims to explore how urban governance of Hong Kong is impacted by the formulation and implementation of the new constitutional order of “one country, two systems” that…

The securitization of refugees in Hong Kong: government, members of the legislative council and Chinese newspapers (2005 to June 2019)

Wai Ching Choy

This paper explores how the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSARG) securitizes internal security, cultural identity and welfare system through refugee…

Making the local and the decentralized governable: a study of the implementation of the Chinese Temples Ordinance

Wan Yin Kimberly Fung

This paper aims at illustrating how the local and the decentralized temple management bodies were made governable and governed through law.

Colonial governance and state incorporation of Chinese language: the case of the first Chinese language movement in Hong Kong

Chi Keung Charles Fung

Despite the importance of the first Chinese language movement in the early 1970s that elevated the status of Chinese as an official language in British Hong Kong, the movement and…

Urbanism as a political way of life: the case of highly educated mainlanders in Hong Kong

Iam Chong Ip

The disengaged form of urban experience, addressed by Louis Wirth in his classic essay, is worthy of further theorization and contextualization. The themes such as indifference…

“Key challenges facing the rule of law in Hong Kong”

Ryuta Hagiwara

This paper aims to highlight key challenges to the rule of law in Hong Kong.

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ISSN:

1871-2673

Online date, start – end:

2016

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Open Access:

hybrid

Editor:

  • Professor Tai-lok Lui