Hong Kong Will Be Introduced As Asia 's World City

Travelling gives us mixed feelings: happiness, anxiety, eagerness, … and it gives us expectations about the country or city we are visiting. The two travelers have felt similar feelings as what we might feel. They both were eagered to find what Athens was like.

In “The Ugly Tourist” by Jamaica Kincaid, tourism is thought as a disgusting and an extremely harmful industry. In her perspective, it allows first world citizens to escape and marvel at the simplest and most ordinary things. Although there is some truth in what Jamaica Kincaid describes to the reader, I believe there is a prejudiced view towards the tourist themselves. Kincaid’s essay about the ugliness and affects of being a tourist contrasts everything I’ve experienced being a tourist in Italy and Greece.

Kaye Hong grown up in San Francisco and attended university of Washington. At the begging of his essay, he was not sure where he should lie his future in because he sees his future clearly in both China and America. Through half of his essay, we can tell that he is also considered China as a weak and low quality county by saying, “I shall deplore China’s lower standard of living, that the chaos of China’s government offers me no promise of economic security” (62). Although he had thought of go back to China, the bad living condition and insecure economy has immediately stopped his thinking. To put it differently, Hong is also lack of knowledge of China, and they way he looks at China’s future was incorrect. Indeed, at that time China’s economy and condition were not as good as today. But due to his enormous population, it is possible for its citizens to make it strong and rich, which this is also what the Stanford students are trying to express. However, Hong is very pessimistic with China’s

“Dear Scott, you are about to embark on the ride of your life, so, buckle up dude,” writes author Scott Kronick in the opening line of a letter his younger self. “…When you have the chance to move to China in 1995, jump at this. It will be an inflection point in your life you will not forget.” Kronick, CEO of Ogilvy Public Relations, Asia Pacific, the leading public relations consultancy in Asia, has lived in China for nearly two decades, during which he’s experienced tremendous social, economic and personal change. The Lighter Side of China, while diminutive in weight, is more than an autobiography or travelogue, it’s Kronick’s professionally refined “CliffsNotes” on how to survive 20 years as a foreigner in modern China. They key to it all, to happiness in business and at home, Kronick explains, is to continuously “seek to understand.”

Macau is a place of fusion; it fuses aspects of European and Asian culture together and creates something entirely unique. The origin of Macau’s blend of these two different cultures is a direct result of European colonialism in China, as it had been a Portuguese-controlled colony since 1887 until 1999 where Macau was handed back to China and placed under special administrative regulations. With more than 400 years of Portuguese influence, comingling with Chinese traditions, and an explosion in tourism due to a booming gambling industry has left Macau with a culture that cannot be found anywhere else.

Hong Kong, itself is a cosmopolitan metropolis where old tradition blends perfectly with Western culture and post-modern trends. Ethnic Chinese make up the bulk of its population, but there is also a sizeable presence of expatriates and people of different ethnicity, all enjoying the freedoms and prosperity

When the Exclusion Act was lifted in 1943, China was given a small immigration quota, and the community continued to grow. It started expanding slowly throughout the ‘40s and ‘50s. Today Chinatown is greatly crowded but is still growing. Chinatown now offers to many tourists and residents like restaurants, booming fruit, fish markets, and shops of knickknacks. But its overcrowding streets are the main offer it gives us.

In China today, slogans on public hygiene are everywhere, restaurants, subways, road sides, to name just a few. Literally, it is one of the priorities of the Chinese government to promote public hygiene and to encourage people to behave civilized in public. Yet here comes the question: why is personal hygiene associated with public in China, and why does it have to do with being civilized? Ruth Rogaski’s Hygienic Modernity provides perceptive answers to these questions. It traces the history of the word weisheng, hygiene in Chinese, through the late-Qing Tianjin, its Republican period, Japanese occupation, and until the first few years of New China. Rogaski argues that the changing meaning of weisheng in Tianjin provides a window to China’s conception of modernity and its emphasis of modernization projects; it is the implication of hygienic modernity in weisheng that marks China’s deficiency, internalized by the intellectuals in the pre-war era and used against imperialism after the establishment of the PRC. In other words, weisheng itself embodies China’s complex modern history represented in the semi-colonial condition of Tianjin as a treaty port. This paper aims to discuss China’s semicoloniality through Rogaski’s concept of hygienic modernity, or weisheng and compare it with the previous week’s reading, i.e. Rhoads Murphey’s and Bryna Goodman’s notions of Chinese

It’s easy to get swept up in all of the beautiful things that New York City has to offer. The flashing lights and large billboards of Times Square, dizzying height of the Empire State Building, and majestic Statue of Liberty attract tourists from all over the world to Manhattan. However, what most visitors - and even New Yorkers - don’t know, is how many secrets the city holds. Behind every brick of old brownstones, beneath the roar of the trains, above the skyscrapers, beyond the skyline, there are hidden secrets detailing the history and culture of the city that never sleeps.

Hong Kong has always remained a very unique city, one which is said to have ‘a Western past, an Eastern future’. Since its colonisation by the British in the 1860s, it has maintained to a very large extent its Chinese identity and its connection to its Motherland, while at the same time, has frequent contact with the Western world, politically, economically, and culturally. Hong Kong’s unique position has made the city a vibrant international metropolis that acts as a bridge between East and West. Yet after it was returned to China in 1997, this former British colony has been constantly reassessing its British past, struggling to find its new position and

The key subject here is China Town London. In London the visual communication could be directly reflected in its China Town, it could mostly contain abundant varieties of Chinese shops. The present Chinatown occupies the area in and around Gerrard Street, which is part of the City of Westminster.

What place has the best harmony of the east and the west in the world do you think? The Middle East? Southeast Asia? or China town in the US? I think Hong Kong has the best harmonious culture in the world because it was a part of England and China, and many people from Hong Kong can speak English and Chinese. Even until now, China is not much open as many other liberal economy countries, but Hong Kong is. According to Milton Friedman who is one of the famous economies in the world, and who were awarded the Novel Prize in Economic Sciences, Hong Kong is a good example of the free market system. Therefore, Hong Kong has been influenced many different cultures, and it becomes one of the harmoniest countries in the world. It became independent from England, but it has not been included China yet, so it has very distinctive culture. It was established in July 1st 1997 and would be a part of China 50 years after 1997 (Hong Kong Basic Law). Hong Kong rapidly developed social systems and economy in 1980. Therefore, there are many similarities and differences between 1980 and now.

A hardworking, entrepreneurial and well-educated population of about seven million people serves as the foundation of Hong Kong’s productivity and creativity. Located at the southeastern tip of China, Hong Kong is ideally positioned at the center of East Asia. Not only is Hong Kong a large city on the mainland, but its territory extends to include small rural islands and the Kowloon Peninsula. Once a small port city, Hong Kong is now a world-class center for business, finance, and art culture.

Hong Kong is a modern, fast-paced international city saturated with skilled workforce and a desired destination of many immigrants. Due to such nature of Hong Kong, it is a highly competitive society. In 1997, Hong Kong, originally a colony of the UK, was returned to China, as a special territory free of China’s administration. This provided a balance between both Western and Oriental cultures in the educational system of Hong Kong. However, since 1980s, globalization affected many places in some form on the society. Therefore, Hong Kong has spent a decade in reforming its educational system which gradually emphasizes more on technical subjects to keep up with the trends resulting from globalization. These changes are made to

The Asian continent is soon going be home to more than two thirds of the global middle class. This implies that entrepreneurs from different parts of the world are taking interest in the continent. Honk Kong itself is at the heart of Asia and key regional markets within Asia are within a four hours flight from Hong Kong.