1st Edition
Homeownership in Hong Kong House Buying as Hope Mechanism
By Chung-kin Tsang
Copyright 2021
148 Pages
19 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
148 Pages
19 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
148 Pages
19 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book studies the cultural framework of the connections between homeownership and social stability in Hong Kong.
In the post-war period, homeownership became the most preferable housing choice in developed societies, such as Australia, Britain, Japan, Spain, and the United States. In the financialization era, its proliferation aggregated enormous wealth and debt in the housing and mortgage... Read more
1. Introduction; 2. Financialization and hope: the case of Hong Kong; 3. Hope in the tunnel (1970s–1990s); 4. Transformation after 1997; 5. Hope through waiting for the coming crisis (2010s); 6. Going beyond active and passive hope
Biography
Chung-kin Tsang attained PhD in Communication Studies from UNC at Chapel Hill. His research interests include cultural sociology and cultural studies, urban and housing studies, economic culture and discourses, and popular culture in the East Asian context. He now works as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Sociology at the Hong Kong Shue Yan University.
