Made in Hong Kong: Transpacific Networks and a New History of Globalization

by Peter E Hamilton and Peter E. Hamilton

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231184859
• ISBN13: 9780231184854
• Release Date: January 2021
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 440 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 8.9"