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Conference Paper: There’s No Place Like It: Promoting Colonial Hong Kong as a Tourist Destination
| Title | There’s No Place Like It: Promoting Colonial Hong Kong as a Tourist Destination |
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| Authors | |
| Issue Date | 2019 |
| Citation | Hong Kong Studies Seminar, Hong Kong Studies Initiative, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, 20 March 2019 How to Cite? |
| Abstract | From the early 1950s on, Hong Kong became a major tourist destination where visitors could have a taste of Chinese culture and catch a glimpse of the PRC beyond the “Bamboo Curtain.” This talk explores how the Hong Kong Tourist Association, established in 1957, promoted Hong Kong as a unique cultural and geopolitical space: Chinese but not quite China; a harmonious blending of East and West and of old and new; and a modern, bustling metropolis coexisting side-by-side with the rural, quaint New Territories. Especially within the contexts of the Cold War and the disintegration of the British Empire, tourism was about more than economics and the movement of people. It became a way for Hong Kong to position itself within Asia and across the globe. |
| Description | Hosted by the Hong Kong Studies Initiative, Department of Asian Studies, and Department of History, University of British Columbia |
| Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/282595 |
| DC Field | Value | Language |
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| dc.contributor.author | Carroll, JM | - |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2020-05-20T08:53:46Z | - |
| dc.date.available | 2020-05-20T08:53:46Z | - |
| dc.date.issued | 2019 | - |
| dc.identifier.citation | Hong Kong Studies Seminar, Hong Kong Studies Initiative, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, 20 March 2019 | - |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/282595 | - |
| dc.description | Hosted by the Hong Kong Studies Initiative, Department of Asian Studies, and Department of History, University of British Columbia | - |
| dc.description.abstract | From the early 1950s on, Hong Kong became a major tourist destination where visitors could have a taste of Chinese culture and catch a glimpse of the PRC beyond the “Bamboo Curtain.” This talk explores how the Hong Kong Tourist Association, established in 1957, promoted Hong Kong as a unique cultural and geopolitical space: Chinese but not quite China; a harmonious blending of East and West and of old and new; and a modern, bustling metropolis coexisting side-by-side with the rural, quaint New Territories. Especially within the contexts of the Cold War and the disintegration of the British Empire, tourism was about more than economics and the movement of people. It became a way for Hong Kong to position itself within Asia and across the globe. | - |
| dc.language | eng | - |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Hong Kong Studies Seminar, Hong Kong Studies Initiative, University of British Columbia | - |
| dc.title | There’s No Place Like It: Promoting Colonial Hong Kong as a Tourist Destination | - |
| dc.type | Conference_Paper | - |
| dc.identifier.email | Carroll, JM: jcarroll@hku.hk | - |
| dc.identifier.authority | Carroll, JM=rp01188 | - |
| dc.identifier.hkuros | 304702 | - |
| dc.publisher.place | Vancouver | - |