"For decades, Hong Kong has maintained precarious freedom at the edge of competing world powers. In City on the Edge, Ho-fung Hung offers a timely and engaging account of Hong Kong's development from precolonial times to the present, with particular focus on the post 1997 handover period....

Since the 1980s, globalization has reduced between-country inequality and increased within-country inequality in most countries. There has been a debate about whether global inequality, which combines both between- and within-country inequalities, increased or decreased. With more adequate and...

Intro -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations and Tables -- Preface -- Chronology of State Making and Capitalist Development in China, Sixteenth to Twenty-First Centuries -- Introduction: Sinomania and Capitalism -- Part I. Origins -- 1. A Market Without Capitalism, 1650-1850 -- 2....