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Record Nr.

UNINA9910972332703321

Titolo

Colonial Hong Kong and modern China : interaction and reintegration / / edited by Lee Pui-tak

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hong Kong, : Hong Kong University Press, c2005

ISBN

9786612705816

9781282705814

1282705814

9789882200784

9882200788

Edizione

[1st edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (295 pages)

Collana

Gale eBooks

Altri autori (Persone)

LeePui-tak

Disciplina

951.2505

Soggetti

HISTORY / Asia / China

Hong Kong (China) History

Hong Kong (China) Relations China

China Relations China Hong Kong

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; About the Contributors; INTRODUCTION; PART I : HISTORY OF HONG KONG; 1.The Common People in Hong Kong History: Their Livelihood and Aspirations Until the 1930s; 2.Religion in Hong Kong History; 3.The Sunday Rest Issue in Nineteenth Century Hong Kong; 4.Governorships of Lugard and May: Fears of Double Allegiance and Perceived Disloyalty; 5.The Making of a Market Town in Rural Hong Kong: The Luen Wo Market; 6.Recording a Rich Heritage: Research in Hong Kong's ""New Territories""; PART II : HONG KONG AND ITS RELATIONS WITH MODERN CHINA

7.The Contribution Made by Frederick Stewart (1836-1889) Through the Hong Kong Government Education System and Its Pupils, to the Modernization of China8.The Use of Sinology in the Nineteenth Century: Two Perspectives Revealed in the History of Hong Kong; 9.The Guangxi Clique and Hong Kong: Sanctuary in a Dangerous World; 10.Business and Radicalism: Hong Kong Chinese Merchants and the Chinese Communist Movement, 1921-1934; 11.Made in China or Made



in Hong Kong? National Goods and the Hong Kong Business Community

12.Hong Kong's Economic Relations With China 1949-55: Blockade,Embargo and Financial ControlsNotes; Chinese Glossary; Chinese Glossary; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The evolution of Hong Kong, as a British colony and now a Special Administrative Region at China's door step, has always been inextricably intertwined with the situation in China. This relationship is examined through various perspectives in this volume.