Hong Kong's History
State and Society Under Colonial Rule
Published on 11. September 2002
217 pages
978-1-134-63094-3 (ISBN)
Description
Rewriting Hong Kong's history from the bottom up, the chapters investigate vital, but hitherto obscured, aspects of the colony's rise. They cover the Chinese collaboration with the colonial regime, legal discrimination and intimidation, rural politics, social movements, government-business relations, industrial policy, flexible manufacturing and colonial historiography.
Drawing together contributions from historians, sociologists and political scientists, the book highlights the role played by a variety of social actors in Hong Kong's history and differs both from recent celebrations of British colonialism and anti-colonial Chinese nationalism.
Drawing together contributions from historians, sociologists and political scientists, the book highlights the role played by a variety of social actors in Hong Kong's history and differs both from recent celebrations of British colonialism and anti-colonial Chinese nationalism.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Reflowable
Illustrations
8 s/w Tabellen
8 Tables, black and white
File size
0,44 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-134-63094-3 (9781134630943)
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Person
Tak-Wing Ngo is Lecturer in Chinese Politics at Leiden University, and currently Fellow of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences at the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Content
1 Colonialism in Hong Kong revisited 2 Chinese collaboration in the making of British Hong Kong 3 Comprador politics and middleman capitalism 4 The criminal trial under early colonial rule 5 State building and rural stability 6 Social movements and public discourse on politics 7 Industrial history and the artifice of laissez-faire colonialism 8 State-business relations and industrial restructuring 9 Flexible manufacturing in a colonial economy
