Civic education and the making of deformed citizenry: From British colony to Chinese SAR

Remaking Citizenship in Hong Kong: Community, Nation and the Global City

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 49-66

  Tse, Thomas Kwan Choi ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203400333     Document Type: Chapter

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