• Notes from Utopia:
• The Tropicalist discusses the long history of cosmopolitan cities in China
• Hosts Jesse and Madhavi talk at length about:
• the exact terms of the agreement between Britain and China
• the experiences of Hong Kong immigrants to Canada and the phenomenon of reverse migration
• the Greater Bay Area and its prospects for integrating Hong Kong into the mainland economy

Links:

• The Legacies of Forced Freedom: China’s Treaty Ports
• Confucian Cosmopolitanism (Note: Start at p. 34)
• China’s Frontiers and the Encounter with the Sea through Early Imperial History
• Together They Might Make Trouble: Cross-Cultural Interactions in Tang Dynasty Guangzhou
• Medieval Tamil-Language Inscriptions in China
• Boundaries and Beyond: China’s Maritime Southeast in Late Imperial Times
• The Way of the Barbarians: Redrawing Ethnic Boundaries in Tang and Song China (draft thesis available here and refer to p.xx for an interesting discussion on how the Chinese viewed Indians)
• The Muslim Merchants of Pre-Modern China
• If you want to get a feel for the Hong Kong of Alan Zeman’s youth, there’s no better chronicle in the English language than Jan Morris’ Hong Kong (1997). Get a taste of her writing in her Guardian piece on post-handover Hong Kong, The View Downhill
• Return Migration from Canada to Hong Kong
• China’s Systemic Advantages for Tech-Enabled Innovations
• Is the Greater Bay Area China’s Future?
• China’s Greater Bay Area Initiative
• HSBC Doubles Down on China with New Greater Bay Area Office
• Making it in the Megacity: China’s GBA Is Increasingly the Career Destination of Choice for Ambitious Young Researchers

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