HISTORY 2302 - Shanghai and Hong Kong:China's Global Cities

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Bard College

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GIS The high-rise office buildings of Hong Kong island face the stately, colonial-era Peninsula Hotel across Victoria Harbor, and Shanghai's new wealthy middle-class elite choose between coffee at Starbucks or cocktails on the verandas of Jazz Age villas. As international industrial and business centers, and the main conduits for overseas direct investment, Shanghai and Hong Kong are China's global cities, but they are cities with long cosmopolitan pasts. This course explores the history of their current economic, social, and cultural dynamism, and in doing so probes the historical roots of globalization. It analyzes how 19th- and early 20th-century colonialism and semicolonialism both drove and conditioned, in somewhat different ways, the development of these two cities, and examines how this earlier phase of integration into global networks of commerce and culture relates to the patterns of the present.

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4.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.bard.edu

Phone Number:

(845) 758-6822

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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