The Hong Kong Region 1850 1911

Author : James Hayes
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789888139118

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The Hong Kong Region 1850-1911 by James Hayes Pdf

First published in 1977, The Hong Kong Region is a historical reconstruction of long-settled vil­lage and township society in Hong Kong's New Territories between 1850 and 1911. The book's central argument is that the gentry and bureau­cracy played almost no role in these commu­nities, which were run by local peasants and shopkeepers who had to deal virtually unaided with routine administration and with every form of disaster, natural or man-made. A sub­stantial new introduction reviews the research and its wider implications for our understand­ing of traditional Chinese society in the light of later scholarly studies.

Author : John Strickland
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2010-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789888028382

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Southern District Officer Reports by John Strickland Pdf

This is a collection of administrative dispatches from the 1910s through the early 1960s which illuminate not only rural life in Hong Kong but also Hong Kong government policies during the post-World War II period. The authors of the reports include such notable figures as Eric Hamilton, Walter Schofield, S. H. Peplow, Paul Tsui, Austin Coates, and James Hayes. The volume is another important addition to the Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Studies series, which has played a vital role in reviving and sustaining local history.

Author : Jessie Gregory Lutz,Rolland Ray Lutz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317469216

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Hakka Chinese Confront Protestant Christianity, 1850-1900 by Jessie Gregory Lutz,Rolland Ray Lutz Pdf

This work focuses on the 19th-century mission conducted by Chinese evangelists among the Hakka, an ethnic minority in south China. The principal part of the text comprises the autobiographies of eight pioneer missionaries who offer insight into village life and customs of the Hakka people.

Author : Malcolm Merry
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 555 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-06
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789888528325

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The Unruly New Territories by Malcolm Merry Pdf

At the end of the nineteenth century a slice of imperial China was abruptly incorporated into the British Crown Colony of Hong Kong. It became known as the New Territories. The people of this remote and traditional corner of the Ching empire were not consulted about the annexation, initially resisted and long resented it. To placate them, the incoming authorities promised that little would alter and that their customs would be respected. The promise would not be fully kept but it became the source of the preservation of Chinese customary law in respect of rural land and the justification for privileges afforded to indigenous inhabitants. Their tenacious assertion of those rights and aversion to authority is detectible throughout the twentieth century and into the era of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region; it permeates almost every aspect of policy and law relating to rural land. The Unruly New Territories is an account of the annexed area and of its special place in Hong Kong history and law. It recounts the customs and privileges, how they preserved a China that was elsewhere disappearing and how they gave—and, despite enormous changes, continue to give—leverage to indigenous representatives in dealings with government as well as handsome profits to rural landowners. ‘This fascinating and impressive book is a must-read for all who want to know more about the New Territories. Malcolm Merry traces, with his usual clarity and insight, its unique land history that blends, not always harmoniously, Chinese custom with the advance of common law and this area’s dramatic development.’ —Sarah Nield, University of Southampton ‘The Unruly New Territories covers various aspects of land law and custom in the New Territories and the history of this region in a thoughtful and provocative combined thesis. A must-read for anyone studying the laws and customs affecting land in rural Hong Kong and interested in the history of the New Territories.’ —Steven Gallagher, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Author : Steve Tsang
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2007-07-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857730831

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A Modern History of Hong Kong by Steve Tsang Pdf

This major history of Hong Kong tells the remarkable story of how a cluster of remote fishing villages grew into an icon of capitalism. The story began in 1842 with the founding of the Crown Colony after the First Anglo-Chinese war - the original 'Opium War'. As premier power in Europe and an expansionist empire, Britain first created in Hong Kong a major naval station and the principal base to open the Celestial Chinese Empire to trade. Working in parallel with the locals, the British built it up to become a focus for investment in the region and an international centre with global shipping, banking and financial interests. Yet by far the most momentous change in the history of this prosperous, capitalist colony was its return in 1997 to 'Mother China', the most powerful Communist state in the world.

Author : Anthony Sweeting
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1990-05-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9622092586

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Education in Hong Kong, Pre-1841 to 1941 by Anthony Sweeting Pdf

To reflect the development and history of education in Hong Kong, the author has collected a wide range of fascinating and illuminating material from different sources, and, wherever appropriate, has included his own commentaries. The book will be a valuable source of reference for educationalists and others who are interested in the development of education in Hong Kong.

Author : Stephen Chiu,Tai-Lok Lui
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2009-06-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134600649

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Hong Kong by Stephen Chiu,Tai-Lok Lui Pdf

Hong Kong is a small city with a big reputation. As mainland China has become an 'economic powerhouse' Hong Kong has taken a route of development of its own, flourishing as an entrepot and a centre of commerce and finance for Chinese business, then as an industrial city and subsequently a regional and international financial centre. This volume examines the developmental history of Hong Kong, focusing on its rise to the status of a Chinese global city in the world economy. Chiu and Lui's analysis is distinct in its perspective of the development as an integrated process involving economic, political and social dimensions, and as such this insightful and original book will be a core text on Hong Kong society for students.

Author : Stella Meng Wang
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2024-01-23
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783031444012

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Space and Everyday Lives of Children in Hong Kong by Stella Meng Wang Pdf

Deploying a spatial approach towards children’s everyday life in interwar Hong Kong, this book considers the context-specific development of five transnational movements: the garden city movement; imperial hygiene movement; nationalist sentiments; the Young Women's Christian Association; and the Girl Guide. Locating these transnational cultural movements in four layers of context, from the most immediate to the most global, including the context of Hong Kong, Republican China, the British empire, and global influences, this book shows Hong Kong as a distinctive colonial domain where the imperatives around race, gender and class produced new products of empire where the child, the garden, the school and sport turned out to be the main dynamics in play in the interwar period.

Author : Jessie G. Lutz,Rolland Ray Lutz
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1998-01-16
Category : History
ISBN : 0765637634

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Hakka Chinese Confront Protestant Christianity, 1850-1900 by Jessie G. Lutz,Rolland Ray Lutz Pdf

The Basil Society's China mission, one of the more successful Protestant missions in the nineteenth century, was distinguished by the fact that most of the initial proselytizing was conducted by Chinese converts in the interior rather than by Western missionaries in the treaty ports. Thus the first viable protestant communities were not only established by Chinese evangelists, they were established among an ethnic minority in south China, the Hakka people. The autobiographies of eight pioneer Chinese missionaries featured in this book offer an unusual opportunity to view village life and customs in Guangdong during the mid-nineteenth century by providing details on Hakka death and burial rituals, ancestor veneration, lineages and lineage feuds, geomancy, the status of Hakka women, widespread economic hardship, and civil disorder. They also illustrate the appeals of Christianity, the obstacles to conversion, and Chinese opposition to Christianity and Western missionaries. The authors' commentary addresses the issue of conversion, which was fueled by individual desire for solace and salvation, the building of a support community amid social chaos, and the possibility of social mobility through education. Despite an expanding role by Western missionaries, the Chinese origins, the rural interior locale, and the status of the Hakka as a disadvantaged minority contributed to successive generations of Christian families and to early progress toward an autonomous Hakka church.

Author : Yuen-fong Woon
Publisher : University of Michigan Center for chinese
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780892640485

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Social Organization in South China, 1911-1949 by Yuen-fong Woon Pdf

Author : Patrick H. Hase
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789888139088

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Custom, Land and Livelihood in Rural South China by Patrick H. Hase Pdf

Land was always at the centre of life in Hong Kong’s rural New Territories: it sustained livelihoods and lineages and, for some, was a route to power. Villagers managed their land according to customs that were often at odds with formal Chinese law. British rule, 1898—1997, added complications by assimilating traditional practices into a Western legal system. Custom, Land and Livelihood in Rural South China explores land ownership in the New Territories, analysing over a hundred surviving land deeds from the late Ch’ing Dynasty to recent times, which are transcribed in full and translated into English. Together with other sources collected by the author during 30 years of research, these deeds yield information on all aspects of traditional village life—from raising families and making a living to coping with intruders—and evoke a view of the world which, despite decades of urbanisation, still has resonance today.

Author : Christopher Munn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 487 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136838453

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Anglo-China by Christopher Munn Pdf

A study of the first three decades of British rule in Hong Kong, focusing on the troubled and controversial process of establishing a British colony at Hong Kong and on the reception of British rule by people in the region.

Author : David Faure,Helen F. Siu
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 9780804724357

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Down to Earth by David Faure,Helen F. Siu Pdf

The contributors argue that local society in the Delta was integrated into the Chinese state through a series of changes that involved constant redefinition of lineages, territories, and ethnic identities. The emergence of lineages in the Ming and Qing dynasties, the deployment of deities in local alliances, and the shrewd use of ethnic labels provided terms for a discourse that reified the criteria for membership in Chinese local society. The ideology produced by these developments continued to serve as the norm for the legitimation of power in local society through the Republican period

Author : Göran Aijmer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000217582

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Leadership on the China Coast by Göran Aijmer Pdf

Originally published in 1984, Leadership on the China Coast brings together four independent empirical studies of leadership exercised on China’s southern coastland. Written by academics from across several disciplines, the book presents a wealth of research on methods of constructing authority in China, and on informal politics as a process integrated with formal bureaucratic administrations in which idiosyncratic leadership operates on all levels under shared ideological and legal constraints. Leadership on the China Coast will appeal to those with an interest in the social and political history of China.

Author : Hugh D.R. Baker
Publisher : City University of HK Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9789629375539

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A Pattern of Life—Essays on Rural Hong Kong by James Hayes by Hugh D.R. Baker Pdf

“For myself, however, it is the human element, the recollected words, the remembered faces, which give life to the printed record.” James Hayes’s many writings have made a major contribution to knowledge about life in rural Hong Kong. This book presents sixteen of his illuminating and original articles, each of which is rooted in his experiences as a district officer, administering and visiting villages under his care. His interest in the life and lives of the people went far beyond the formal demands of his official work, and Dr Hayes grew to admire and respect the villagers. As a result, his writings are suffused with his affection and esteem. Intended for scholars in the field of New Territories history as well as general readers interested in rural life in the region, A Pattern of Life provides a fascinating, academically important, yet highly readable picture of traditional life in rural South China and reinforces Dr Hayes’s reputation as one of the most important writers on the New Territories. “[James was] the archetypical example of those remarkable Colonial Service officers who became fascinated by, and deeply engaged with, the territories and people which it was their task to administer.” – Lord Wilson of Tillyorn Governor of Hong Kong (1987–1992)