Social Transformations in Chinese Societies: Volume 19 Issue 1

Advertising activism and social resistance: a case study of a bottom-up advertising campaign in Hong Kong

Chi Kit Chan, Anna Wai Yee Yuen

This study scrutinizes the convergence between commercial advertising and the political vision of social movement in media advertisements. This study deliberates how commercial…

A tech takeover: Alibaba and the transforming work culture of the South China Morning Post

Holy Hoi-ki Shum

The influx of mainland capital to different media sectors in Hong Kong has been commonly seen throughout the last decade (Leung, 2019). While the changes in ownership have been…

Happy Valley heterotopia: representing colonial order in a Hong Kong “other space”

L. Nicole Vaughan

This paper aims to trace the development of Hong Kong's Happy Valley from a space associated with dangerous miasmas to the site of a racecourse, recreation ground and a series of…

The preconditions of interreligious education in Hong Kong: religious heterogeneity, freedom of religion, and secularity

Alexander Fedorov

In the light of intensifying academic discourses on contemporary religious education in Hong Kong, this paper aims to examine how the interreligious model (i.e. that features…

Support from service agency and resilience of ethnic minorities: the case of Nepalese communities in Hong Kong in COVID-19

Helen Yin-Kwan Lee, Lawrence Ka-ki Ho, Fredie Pak-Cheung Hung

This study aims to explore the community strengths/ weaknesses and the opportunities/ threats of the Nepalese communities in Hong Kong that have faced during the COVID-19…