China, Hong Kong, and the Long 1970s: Global Perspectives

Priscilla Roberts, Odd Arne Westad, Priscilla Roberts, Odd Arne Westad

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2017
• ISBN:
  9783319512501
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Asian History
• Index: History

This book explores the forces that impelled China, the world's largest socialist state, to make massive changes in its domestic and international stance during the long 1970s. Fourteen distinguished scholars investigate the special, perhaps crucial part that the territory of Hong Kong played in encouraging and midwifing China's relationship with the non-Communist world. The Long 1970s were the years when China moved dramatically and decisively toward much closer relations with the non-Communist world. In the late 1970s, China also embarked on major economic reforms, designed to win it great power status by the early twenty-first centuries. The volume addresses the long-term implications of China's choices for the outcome of the Cold War and in steering the global international outlook toward free-market capitalism. Decisions made in the 1970s are key to understanding the nature and policies of the Chinese state today and the worldview of current Chinese leaders.

Table of contents

• China, Hong Kong, and the Long 1970s: Global Perspectives
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Untrusting and Untrusted: Mao’s China at the Crossroads, 1969
• 3 Building China’s 1970s Green Revolution: Responding to Population Growth, Decreasing Arable Land, and Capital Depreciation
• 4 China and South Asia in the 1970s: Contrasting Trajectories
• 5 Reimagining and Repositioning China in International Politics: The Role of Sports in China’s Long 1970s
• 6 From China’s “Barefoot Doctor” to Alma Ata: The Primary Health Care Movement in the Long 1970s
• 7 China’s Economic Statecraft in the 1970s
• 8 The Roots of a Globalized Relationship: Western Knowledge of the Chinese Economy and US–China Relations in the Long 1970s
• 9 Sino-Australian Relations in the Long 1970s
• 10 1967 as the Turning Point in Hong Kong–British–PRC Economic Relations
• 11 Crisis or Opportunity? Britain, China, and the Decolonization of Hong Kong in the Long 1970s
• 12 “Bat lau dung laai”: Shifting Hong Kong Perspectives Toward the Vietnamese Boatpeople
• 13 Bringing the Chinese Back In: The Role of Quasi-Private Institutions in Britain and the United States
• 14 Conclusion
• Index