Author : James Hayes
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789888139118
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.