Drawing upon the massive redevelopment catalyzed by the
government-led urban renewal in Hong Kong in the past two decades,
Shu-Mei Huang recharges the story of post-colonial Hong Kong
through care, displacement, and how care is displaced in urban
governance. Theorizing “carescapes” as a heuristic device,
Huang tracks how care is displaced, undervalued and even exploited
in transforming urban landscape. In a rather counter-intuitive way,
Urbanizing Carescapes of Hong Kong: Two Systems, One City considers
the post-colonial picturing of “One Country, Two Systems” as
insufficient if not misleading in understanding the city of Hong
Kong and its changing ties with the world. Huang illustrates the
way in which each urban citizen is propelled to be a
self-enterprising subject and local urban initiatives are becoming
cross-border investments upon global mobility. In an era when
putatively both the talents and capital are moving toward Asia, the
book illuminates how dynamism of colonialism is sustained rather
than disappears within the two systems in one city.
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