Hong Kong was and is, as Prasenjit Duara points out in this volume, a place that escaped from the boundaries and constraints of the nation-state, one with the potential to trigger novel and perhaps hybrid institutional arrangements, tailored to its own circumstances, that might ultimately provide models for an increasingly globalized and interdependent world, one where the ways that states functioned were being adapted to meet changing demands. Neither a state nor even perhaps a genuine colony, it had the scope to devise creative solutions to whatever problems it might encounter. Cold War developments sometimes proved significant in this respect. Peter Hamilton argues that when, during the mid-1960s, Tsim Sha Tsui in Kowloon developed into a rather seedy red light district full of rowdy bars and down-market businesses catering to visiting US military personnel on R & R from the Vietnam War, this prompted both Hong Kong elites and ordinary people into organizing to protest against this transformation. In so doing, Hamilton believes, they brought into being a new kind of community activism, one that set political precedents for the future of Hong Kong....
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