Hong Kong in Chinese History: Community and Social Unrest in the British Colony, 1842-1913This historical study traces unrest and social transformation in Hong Kong and explores how merchants, the intelligentsia and labourers played important roles in China's social and political movements from the mid-19th century until the first years of the Chinese Republic. |
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Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The Making of an Entrepôt | 17 |
The Chinese Community | 36 |
THREE The Chinese Community in a Colonial Situation | 65 |
FOUR Coolies in the British Colony | 103 |
FIVE Popular Insurrection in 1884 During the | 124 |
SIX Coolie Unrest and Elitist Nationalism 18871900 | 147 |
EIGHT The AntiJapanese Boycott and Riot in 1908 | 207 |
NINE Hong Kong in the Chinese Revolution 191112 | 238 |
TEN The Boycott of the Hong Kong Tramway 191213 | 270 |
Conclusion | 288 |
Notes | 297 |
Character List | 335 |
| 345 | |
| 363 | |
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| Title | Hong Kong in Chinese History: Community and Social Unrest in the British Colony, 1842-1913 |
| Author | Jung-fang Tsai |
| Edition | illustrated, revised |
| Publisher | Columbia University Press, 1993 |
| ISBN | 0231079338, 9780231079334 |
| Length | 375 pages |
| Subjects | › › History / Asia / General |
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