Book ID: CBB901496636

Made in Hong Kong : Transpacific networks and a new history of globalization (2021)

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Peter E. Hamilton (Author)


Columbia University Press


Publication Date: 2021
Physical Details: 419
Language: English

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. (Publisher)

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Review Priscilla Roberts (2022) Review of "Made in Hong Kong : Transpacific networks and a new history of globalization". Business History Review (pp. 474-477). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Beemen, Olivier van
Cihan Artunç
Barton, Stuart John
Southgate, Douglas
Scott Rozelle
Guangya, Zhu
Concepts
Economic development
Business history
Globalization; internationalization
Economic history
Business and Politics
Migration
Time Periods
20th century
21st century
19th century
Places
China
United States
Africa
Savannah, Georgia
Southern states (U.S.)
Uganda
Institutions
Heineken’s Bierbrouwerij Maatschappij
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