Nova Science Publishers Inc 8/15/2005 12: 00: 00 AM UK ed. Hardcover PLEASE NOTE, WE DO NOT SHIP TO DENMARK. New Book. Shipped from UK in 4 to 14 days. Established seller since 2000. Please note we cannot offer an expedited shipping service from the UK.

ISBN10: 1594546002, ISBN13: 9781594546006, [publisher: Nova Science Publishers Inc, New York] Hardcover Hardcover. Hong Kong has an urbanisation history of an interesting course -- from fishing village of the Qing dynasty under the Manchu rule, to British colony with 98 per cent of its population being Chinese, to global city with great wealth and business activities, to Communist China's Special Administrative Region (SAR) from 1 July 1997. China resumed sovereignty over Hong Kong and granted Hong Kong the right to self-government for at least 50 years, except over diplomatic and defense matters. Long before the return of Hong Kong to China, the colony had already firmly established itself as a regional business centre. It had been at the forefront of the East Asian economic 'miracle' between the 1970s and the mid 1990s. Lightened by multi-coloured neon signs of commercial advertisements, the semi-westernised Chinese city is more attractive in night than in daytime. Hong Kong is full of contrasts and paradoxes. The wide variety of the city's contrasting and yet fluid and interesting social and cultural images, aptly has been described as, 'east and west', local and colonial, modern and traditional, extravagant and frugal -- has earned it the epithet 'a cultural kaleidoscope'.The author explores these contrasts and paradoxes not only from economic, cultural, and social perspectives, but also from perspectives of non-linear ...

ISBN10: 1594546002, ISBN13: 9781594546006, [publisher: Nova Science Pub Inc] Hardcover
[Castle Donington, DERBY, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2005]
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ISBN10: 1594546002, ISBN13: 9781594546006, [publisher: Nova Science Publishers Inc] Hardcover Num Pages: 200 pages, tables & charts. BIC Classification: 1FPCH; GTB. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 261 x 186 x 19. Weight in Grams: 662. . 2006. Hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.
[Olney, MD, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2005]

Nova Science Publishers Inc 8/15/2005 12: 00: 00 AM UK ed. Hardcover PLEASE NOTE, WE DO NOT SHIP TO DENMARK. New Book. Shipped from UK in 4 to 14 days. Established seller since 2000. Please note we cannot offer an expedited shipping service from the UK.

ISBN10: 1594546002, ISBN13: 9781594546006, [publisher: Nova Science Publishers Inc] Hardcover New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.
[Fairford, GLOS, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2005]

Hardback. New. Hong Kong has an urbanisation history of an interesting course - from fishing village of the Qing dynasty under the Manchu rule, to British colony. This book explores the contrasts and paradoxes from economic, cultural, and social perspectives, and also from perspectives of non-linear theory and Adam Smith's and Confucian philosophies. ISBN 1594546002 9781594546006 [GB]