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Surveys the people, customs, geography, history, economics, food, and contemporary crowded urban lifestyle of Hong Kong. ... Read more

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Tells the tale of an historical ambiguity. "The Colony That Never Was" can be read as shorthand for all the political anomalies, constitutional complexities and geographical surprises that make the story of Hong Kong unique. ... Read more

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While traditional apsects of GIS have been growing rapidly in recent years, new developments have focused on the geographic information service and delivery, which will realise the benefits of spatial information to the community.  The analysis and application of spatial information for decision support systems is an important development in realising these benefits.  This book is a collection of peer-reviewed articles presented at the ISPRS Workshop on Spatial Analysis and Decision Making in Hong Kong in 2003.  It covers topics such as image-based spatial analysis and decision making; 3-D modelling and analysis; general spatial analysis methodology; web- and mobile-based analysis; knowledge-based systems; integrated systems; visualisation and representation methodology, and some application systems.  ... Read more

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Discovery Bay is a mixed, primarily residential, development comprising a residential development and private and public recreational facilities in Hong Kong, situated on the north-eastern coast of Lantau Island in the New Territories. The development spans an area of 650 hectares, and includes two bays, the Tai Pak Bay and Yi Pak Bay. DB has a current population of around 16,000 residents with a sizeable community of expatriates from over thirty countries. DB is located 2 km west of Hong Kong Disneyland and approximately 12 km west from the nearest point on Hong Kong Island, with the co-ordinates of22°17?44?N 114°00?59?E22.29556°N 114.01639°E. DB currently (April 2009) consists of 13 residential development phases with properties ranging from garden houses to high-rise towers of up to 24 storeys. ... Read more

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Litte fresh insight
It is disappointing that this book brings so few fresh insights to the subject. The authors seem to have nothing much to say other than repeating views that have been spelled out by other economists and academics. While it can serve as a reference, it doesn't have too much value as a piece of scholarly work. ... Read more

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This book discusses civic engagement and public policymaking in postcolonial Hong Kong. Utilizing case studies of citizens’ advisory committees involving four policy areas - urban planning, social welfare policy, environmental protection, and arts and culture policy - it examines the interaction between the state and civil society, and explores how far the state opens up its policy process for citizens’ participation. Although citizens' advisory committees are widely used in liberal democracies, they were made extensive use of by the colonial administration in Kong Kong, and continue to be used under the present regime. Some people have argued that the committees are mostly window-dressing.  This book, however, demonstrates that they do offer the opportunity for increased public involvement, with some committees having been tranformed into more open forums, though at the same time other forms of societal mobilisation have had a significant impact on policy, forcing the government to delay or alter a wide range of policies on harbour reclamation, urban planning and heritage conservation.

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This guide aims to help travellers to experience the best of Hong Kong's blend of ancient eastern and modern western cultures, from Taoist temples to designer boutiques. It includes coverage of hotels, restaurants, nightlife, and essays on the city's historical and political background. ... Read more

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The rapid economic growth in recent years has resulted in increasing demand on Hong Kong's infrastructure, and the use of steeply sloping sites with extensive cut and fill slopes for building development. In the dense urban environment of Hong Kong, pressure to maximize land use is intense.
The proceedings contain a keynote paper which describes the risk management of slopes of Hong Kong and an invited paper which presents the state-of-the-art of slope design in Hong Kong. The publication also contains papers with a wide range of topics including case studies, slope hydrology, design and analysis of slopes, application of quantitative risk techniques in slope stability assessment and other special topics.
This will be a useful reference book for geotechnical engineers in Hong Kong and other parts of the world dealing with slopes in tropical soils and densely populated areas.

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Unstructuring Chinese Society is a culmination of long term field work and archival research that challenges existing theories of social organization and cultural change. The book makes new sense of historical contradictions, political conflicts and deep seated social transformations that have underlined the experience of colonial rule and the practices of local institutions in Hong Kong over the past century. By focusing on the ongoing interactions of discourse, practice and global-local relations in cultural terms, Unstructuring Chinese Society puts forth a fresh perspective in the field of historical anthropology, while addressing ongoing, critical concerns in post-colonial theory and our understanding of tradition and modernity. ... Read more

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This book is a major achievement. Detailed consideration of cases and memoranda, with sensitivity to their legal and administrative minutiae, brings out the interplay of large forces, all of them changing in relation to each other. He shows the importance of global forces, of the conversion of the Hong Kong economy into an advanced market-capitalist centre, of a colonial regime moving from a paternal imperialist to a powerful arbiter of profit-taking local interests and of Cold War strategy with pragmatic (mutually beneficial) arrangements with the mainland Communist government, and of the transformation of landholding and kinship by New Territory residents from surface-sub-soil bundles of rights to relations transformed by immigration of new settlers and urban migration of old in which the nature of land changes without disturbing ties to land. He achieves his aim to show that what are usually studied as phenomena isolated from each other, namely the kinship organisations of the New Territories, the laissez-faire and indirect rule of Hong Kong, and globalisation of politics and economy were not isolated, but formed in relation to each other locally and in basic ways. He shows successfully that the descriptions of each have been stereotyped.

The book is a contribution to historical anthropology, questioning and rethinking the way 'custom' has been an object first of transformation when it is preserved by a rationalising ordinance and then of negotiation and misunderstanding, as well as a preserve of indigenous subjects adapting themselves to fiercely competitive change. It is a contribution to the history of the ways in which the British colonial doctrine of indirect rule has been implemented. Finally, within these achievements, it is a reappraisal of the post-war anthropology of kinship, in the New Territories and elsewhere, while bringing together a great many individual studies. To them he adds his own enquiries into a number of Hakka villages in the NT. Again this is done with great sensitivity, this time to the participants' usage of terms and their misunderstanding when translated into English as 'family' or 'lineage'. The major theoretical result of this reappraisal is to dissolve the British social-structural problematic of local solidarity carried by lineage trusts and local lineage segments, and to demonstrate that the formation of trusts is an individual's will to his patri-descendants, distinct from the transmission of worship and of common substance down a patriline, and also from the general obligation to continue to look after the dead, and that all these are distinct from the incorporation of a family or of a village in a present situation which includes the formation of villages as communities in different and specifiable historical conjunctures (Ming dynasty as distinct from pre-Ming, British colony pre-war and post-war, etc.).

In short, this book is bound to be a major contribution to the anthropology of China and to the historical anthropology of British colonial rule, its basic assumptions and how some of the same assumptions were inflected through British anthropology. ... Read more

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Hong Kong is perched on the fault line between China and the West, a Special Administrative Region of the PRC. Leo Ou-fan Lee offers an insider’s view of Hong Kong, capturing the history and culture that make his densely packed home city so different from its generic neighbors.

The search for an indigenous Hong Kong takes Lee to the wet markets and corner bookshops of congested Mong Kok, remote fishing villages and mountainside temples, teahouses and noodle stalls, Cantonese opera and Cantopop. But he also finds the “real” Hong Kong in a maze of interconnected shopping malls, a jungle of high-rise residential towers, and the neon glow of Chinese-owned skyscrapers in the Central Business District, where land development, global trade, capital accumulation, consumerism, and free-market competition trump every value—except family.

Lee illuminates the relationship between Hong Kong’s geography and its colonial experience, revisiting colonial life on the secluded Peak, in the opium-filled godowns along the harborfront, and in crowded, plague-infested tenements. He examines, with a critic’s eye, the “Hong Kong story” in film and fiction: romance in the bars and brothels of Wan Chai, crime in the walled city of Kowloon, ennui on the eve of the 1997 handover.

Whether viewed from Tsing Yi Bridge or the deck of the Star Ferry, from Victoria Peak or Lion Rock, Hong Kong sparkles here in all its multifaceted complexity, a city forever between worlds.

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More Words Than Photos
The wonderful photo of Hong Kong/Victoria Harbor on the jacket is nice, however, the majority of this book is words, words, and, more words, over 300 pages worth--even if this is a "memoir" of the author, it doesn't take 300 words plus.It lacks photos, it should have more photos of Hong Kong and its sights, and, the pages are in matte finish, not glossy.Plus, the book's a square shape and not that big, only 8 1/2" lengthwise by 7 3/4" widthwise--there's no panoramic photos of Hong Kong within this book.I did like the detailed maps in the back, but, if you're wanting more big, huge, photos, this book is not for you. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Temple Street is a street located in the areas of Jordan and Yau Ma Tei in Kowloon, Hong Kong. It is well known for its night market and the busiest flea market at night in the territory. The night market is in the Yau Ma Tei, Jordan areas of the street and not the Mong Kok area of the street. Popular with both tourists and locals alike in the evening, it is common to see the place crowded at dusk. It sells cheap merchandise and food items. The place is sometimes known as Men's Street. ... Read more

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The Magic Kingdom is a theme park at the Walt Disney World Resort. The first park built at the resort, it opened on October 1, 1971. The park saw an estimated 17 million visitors in 2008, making it the most visited theme park in the world. Designed and built by WED Enterprises (now known as Walt Disney Imagineering), the park's layout and attractions are similar to Disneyland Park in Anaheim, California. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Wo Hop Shek is an area in the south of Fanling, Hong Kong. It consists of villages and recently developed housing estates. The area is famous for its large public cemetery, Wo Hop Shek Public Cemetery, on the nearby hillside. Every year, during the Ching Ming Festival and Chung Yeung Festival, many people would come to visit their ancestors. In 1950-1951, a Wo Hop Shek Branch (in fact only a long siding) of Kowloon-Canton Railway was built to transport bodies of civilians killed in World War II, and later to cater the visitor in Ching Ming Festival and Chung Yeung Festival. The whole single track branch was built upon an embankment. It branched off south of Fanling Station, at the start of the curve. ... Read more

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A book in a series of illustrated information books designed for young children who are just beginning to read for themselves. Each page features photographs with clear and simple text. This title concentrates on living in Hong Kong. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Wo Yang Shan located in the New Territories, is the fifth highest peak in Hong Kong. With a height of 771 m, it is at the southeast of Tai Mo Shan. The peak is located in between Tsuen Wan District and Tai Po District. New Territoriesis one of the three main regions of Hong Kong, alongside Hong Kong Island and the Kowloon peninsula. Historically, it is the region described in The Convention for the Extension of Hong Kong Territory. According to that the territories comprise the mainland area north of the Boundary Street of Kowloon Peninsula and south of the Sham Chun River which is the border between Hong Kong and Mainland China, as well as over 200 outlying Islands including Lantau Island, Lamma Island, Cheung Chau, and Peng Chau in the territory of Hong Kong. ... Read more

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Informative and useful analysis
Education and politics in East Asia have charted a very different course when compared with the case in the West.

In this very informative book, the authors have highlighted a number of different themes which illustrates in a pellucid manner the characteristics of education and politics (as well as social development) in the East Asian region.

This is a scholarly work with a broad focus and will be useful for people who are studying or have an interest in disciplines that touch upon the subject. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Wong Tai Sin is an area in Wong Tai Sin District, New Kowloon, Hong Kong. The area was named after the Wong Tai Sin Temple. Wong Tai Sin is surrounded by northeast Tsz Wan Shan, east Diamond Hill, south San Po Kong, south west Tung Tau and west Wang Tai Hom. Lion Rock is located north west of Wong Tai Sin. Public housing estates in the area include Upper Wong Tai Sin Estate, Lower Wong Tai Sin Estate, Chuk Yuen North Estate and Chuk Yuen South Estate. Fung Wong San Tsuen is also considered part of Wong Tai Sin. ... Read more

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With newly expanded food and accommodation sections, and in-depth coverage of a wide array of shopping, this edition offers information on excursions, with essays on the city's historical and political background. ... Read more

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Webster's bibliographic and event-based timelines are comprehensive in scope, covering virtually all topics, geographic locations and people. They do so from a linguistic point of view, and in the case of this book, the focus is on "Hong Kong," including when used in literature (e.g. all authors that might have Hong Kong in their name). As such, this book represents the largest compilation of timeline events associated with Hong Kong when it is used in proper noun form. Webster's timelines cover bibliographic citations, patented inventions, as well as non-conventional and alternative meanings which capture ambiguities in usage. These furthermore cover all parts of speech (possessive, institutional usage, geographic usage) and contexts, including pop culture, the arts, social sciences (linguistics, history, geography, economics, sociology, political science), business, computer science, literature, law, medicine, psychology, mathematics, chemistry, physics, biology and other physical sciences. This "data dump" results in a comprehensive set of entries for a bibliographic and/or event-based timeline on the proper name Hong Kong, since editorial decisions to include or exclude events is purely a linguistic process. The resulting entries are used under license or with permission, used under "fair use" conditions, used in agreement with the original authors, or are in the public domain. ... Read more