Hong Kong has been undergoing considerable changes since its postcolonial independence. This book provides a detailed comparative account of the development of citizenship and civil society in Hong Kong from its time as a British colony to its current status as a special autonomous region of China. Subjects covered include immigration, race, gender, homosexuality, the law and resistance. The book also compares citizenship and civil society in Hong Kong with a number of other East Asian countries.

Agnes S. Ku is Associate Professor of Social Science at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

Ngai Pun is Assistant Professor of Social Science at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

List of TablesAcknowledgmentsForeword Introduction 1. Introduction: Remaking Citizenship in Hong Kong Part 1: State, Institutions, and Ideologies 2. Citizenship as a Form of Governance: A Historical Overview3. Welfare Good or Colonial Citizenship? A Case Study of Early Resettlement Housing4. Civic Education and the Making of Deformed Citizenry: From British Colony to Chinese Sar5. The Making of 'Ideal Citizen' in Schooling Processes: Gender, Differences and Inequalities Part 2: Migration, Belonging, and Exclusion 6. Politics of Incorporation and Exclusion: Citizenship and Immigration Issues7. Hong Kong as a Semi-Ethnocracy: 'Race', Migration, and Citizenship in a Globalized Region8. Lived Citizenship and Lower Class Chinese Migrant Women: A Global City without its People Part 3: Civil Society, Resistance, and Participation 9. Negotiating Law, Rights, and Civil Autonomy: From the Colonial to the Post-Colonial Regimes10. En-Gendering Citizenship11. (Post-)Identity Politics and Anti-Normalization: (Homo)Sexual Rights Movement12. In Search of Communal Economic Subject - Reflections on a Local Community Currency Project13. One Country, Three Systems? State, Nation, and Civil Society in the Making of Citizenship in the Chinese Triangle of Mainland-Taiwan-Hong KongIndexContributors