Hong Kong Land For Hong Kong People
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Hong Kong Land For Hong Kong People
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Author : Yue Chim Richard Wong
language : en
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
Release Date : 2015-01-01
Hong Kong Land For Hong Kong People written by Yue Chim Richard Wong and has been published by Hong Kong University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-01-01 with Political Science categories.
Hong Kong is one of the world’s most densely populated cities. Land supply, property values, and housing provision are inextricably linked with the city’s economic growth and questions of economic equality. In Hong Kong Land for Hong Kong People, Yue Chim Richard Wong traces the history of Hong Kong’s postwar housing policy. He then discusses current housing problems and their solutions, drawing on examples from around the world. Wong argues that housing policy in Hong Kong, with its multiple, often incompatible objectives, and its focus on supply over demand, can no longer satisfy the needs of a diverse and dynamic population. He recommends three simple low-cost policies to promote homeownership and social mobility: sell public rental housing units to the sitting tenants; make subsidized homes more affordable; and reform the public housing program along lines adopted in Singapore, where government-built housing may be resold or leased in a free market. This is the second of Richard Wong’s collections of articles on society and economy in Hong Kong. The first, Diversity and Occasional Anarchy, published by Hong Kong University Press in 2013, examines the growing contradictions in Hong Kong’s economy predicament in historical context.
Land And Housing Controversies In Hong Kong
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Author : Betty Yung
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2020-07-16
Land And Housing Controversies In Hong Kong written by Betty Yung and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-07-16 with Political Science categories.
This book discusses land and housing controversies in Hong Kong, which offer a point of reference for the comparison and analysis of similar or contrasting cases overseas from the perspective of social values. It enhances readers’ understanding of the social values, philosophical and theoretical issues that underpin land and housing controversies, as well as their policy implications. The discussion in each chapter goes beyond mere substantive and contextual analysis, and is explicitly positioned and theorized within the broader context of social values, with a theoretical and philosophical framework for assessing the issue concerned. The book is interdisciplinary in nature, with each chapter integrating two or more disciplines to examine various controversial land and housing issues.
Fixing Inequality In Hong Kong
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Author : Yue Chim Richard Wong
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017
Fixing Inequality In Hong Kong written by Yue Chim Richard Wong and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with BUSINESS & ECONOMICS categories.
When discussing inequality and poverty in Hong Kong, scholars and politicians often focus on the failures of government policy and push for an increase in social welfare. Richard Wong argues in Fixing Inequality in Hong Kong that universal retirement support, minimum wage, and standard hours of work are of limited effect in alleviating inequality. By comparing Hong Kong with Singapore, he points out that Hong Kong needs a new and long-term strategy on human resource policy. He recommends more investment in education, starting with early education and immigration policy reforms to attract highly educated and skilled people to join the workforce. In analyzing what causes inequality, this book ties disparate issues together into a coherent framework, such as Hong Kong's aging population, lack of investment in human capital, and family breakdowns. Rising divorce rates among low-income households have created a shortage of housing, driving rents and property prices upwards, and enlarging the wealth gap between those who own housing and those who do not, thus causing intergenerational upward mobility. This is the third of Richard Wong's collections of articles on society and economy in Hong Kong. Diversity and Occasional Anarchy and Hong Kong Land for Hong Kong People, published by Hong Kong University Press in 2013 and 2015 respectively, discuss growing contradictions in Hong Kong's economy and current housing problems as well as their solutions.
Fortune S Bazaar
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Author : Vaudine England
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2023-05-18
Fortune S Bazaar written by Vaudine England and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-05-18 with History categories.
'Vivid, atmospheric, packed with brilliant story-telling' - Humphrey Hawksley, former BBC Beijing, Hong Kong and Asia Correspondent '[An] entertaining guide, rich in anecdote and understanding for an early globalised world that has gone' - Michael Sheridan, Sunday Times 'Illuminating' - Thomas Dyja, New York Times Book Review A timely, well-researched, and vibrant new history of Hong Kong that reveals the untold stories of the diverse peoples who have made it a multicultural world metropolis-and whose freedoms are endangered today. Hong Kong has always been many cities to many people: a seaport, a gateway to an empire, a place where fortunes can be dramatically made or lost. A British Crown Colony for 155 years, Hong Kong is now ruled by the Chinese Communist Party who continues to threaten its democracy and put its rich legacy at risk. Here, renowned journalist Vaudine England delves into Hong Kong's complex history and its people-diverse, multi-cultural, cosmopolitan-who have made this one-time fishing village into the world port city it is today. Rather than a traditional history describing a town led by British Governors or a mere offshoot of a collapsing Chinese empire, Fortune's Bazaar is the first thorough examination of the varied peoples who made Hong Kong. Many of Hong Kong's most influential figures during its first century as a city were neither British nor Chinese - they were Malay or Indian, Jewish or Armenian, Parsi or Portuguese, Eurasian or Chindian - or simply, Hong Kongers. England describes those overlooked in history including the opium-traders who built synagogues or churches, ship-owners carrying gold-rush migrants, property tycoons, and more. A story of empire, race, and sex, Fortune's Bazaar combines deep archival research and oral history to present a vivid history of a special place-a unique city made by diverse people of the world, whose part in its creation has never been properly told until now.
Maid To Order In Hong Kong
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Author : Nicole Constable
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 1997
Maid To Order In Hong Kong written by Nicole Constable and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Business & Economics categories.
The forms of discipline range from physical abuse to intrusive regulations including restrictions on hair length and the prohibition of lipstick.
Tsuen Wan
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Author : James Hayes
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 1993
Tsuen Wan written by James Hayes and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with History categories.
Perhaps no other part of post-war Hong Kong experienced the trauma of rapid urbanization and industrialization as intensely as did Tsuen Wan. The district (including Kwai Chung, Tsing Yi, Ma Wan, and north-east Lantau) was once known for its sweet pineapples and fiercely independent villagers. The arrival of floods of refugees from China converted it into a loose hotchpotch of people and a polluted and overcrowded centre for Hong Kong's burgeoning textile industry and expanding port. Tsuen Wan: Growth of a 'New Town' and Its People is the story of this metamorphosis. Formerly Tsuen Wan's Town Manager and District Officer, James Hayes offers a first-hand glimpse inside government and its relations with local residents at a time when Tsuen Wan was a guinea-pig for some of the administration's first efforts at relocating masses of people and implementing large-scale urban development, town planning, and more representative district-level government. He writes with wit and insight of the local people whose traditional ways of life have been irrevocably altered by post-war growth.
The Other Hong Kong Report 1998
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Author : Larry Chuen-ho Chow
language : en
Publisher: Chinese University Press
Release Date : 1998-12-31
The Other Hong Kong Report 1998 written by Larry Chuen-ho Chow and has been published by Chinese University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-12-31 with History categories.
Published annually since 1989, "The Other Hong Kong Report" is a review of the various aspects of development in Hong Kong in the past year by scholars and experts, who are not government officials, and is intended to offer an alternative view to that portrayed in government publications.
Consuming Hong Kong
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Author : Gordon Mathews
language : en
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
Release Date : 2001-10-01
Consuming Hong Kong written by Gordon Mathews and has been published by Hong Kong University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-10-01 with Business & Economics categories.
Consumption forms an essential part of Hong Kong people's lives today, but until now little serious attention has been paid to it. This book fills this gap, in a fascinating way. The contributors to this volume explore such topics as: - the coming of shopping malls to Hong Kong - tenants' senses of home in cramped public housing - the experiences of movie-going - alcohol as a marker of social class - the pursuit of fashion - Chinese art and identity among Hong Kong collectors - the dream and reality of owning a flat - Lan Kwai Fong and its mystique - the McDonald's Snoopy craze of fall 1998 - cultural identity and consumption in Hong Kong today This book shows how the detailed ehtnographic study of consumption in Hong Kong can lead to a deeper understanding of Hong Kong life as a whole, as well as of consumption in the world at large.
Development Appraisal Of Land In Hong Kong
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Author : Ling-hin Li
language : en
Publisher: Chinese University Press
Release Date : 2006
Development Appraisal Of Land In Hong Kong written by Ling-hin Li and has been published by Chinese University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Business & Economics categories.
This book provides the market and the profession an overall view of the land management system in Hong Kong by presenting a combination of both factual account of the system and practice as well as some academic and theoretical discussion of the application of development appraisal models. The author discusses various basic appraisal models and gives his views on the future development of cash flow model to be applied in land. This is not only a useful guide to investors investing in Hong Kong, but also an important reference for development appraisal taking place in a similar land market, Mainland China.
The Government And Politics Of Hong Kong
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Author : Norman Miners
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 1998
The Government And Politics Of Hong Kong written by Norman Miners and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Political Science categories.
Fully covering the political and administrative structures of Hong Kong's system of government, this text--now in its fifth edition--is regarded by many as the definitive work on the subject. As readable and accessible as it is thorough and detailed, the book's most recent edition features an additional chapter on the political and governmental developments that Hong Kong has encountered since it returned to Chinese rule in July 1997 under the "one country, two systems" policy.