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Author : Hong Kong
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Despatches and Other Papers Relating to the Extension of the Colony of Hongkong written by Hong Kong and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kwong Chi Man
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
ISBN 13 : 9888208705
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (882 download)
Download or read book Eastern Fortress written by Kwong Chi Man and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrated as a trading port, Hong Kong was also Britain’s “eastern fortress”. Likened by many to Gibraltar and Malta, the colony was a vital but vulnerable link in imperial strategy, exposed to a succession of enemies in a turbulent age and a troubled region. This book examines Hong Kong’s developing role in the Victorian imperial defence system, the emerging challenges from Russia, France, the United States, Germany, Japan and other powers, and preparations in the years leading up to the Second World War. A detailed chapter offers new interpretations of the Battle of Hong Kong of 1941, when the colony succumbed to the Japanese invasion. The remaining chapters discuss Hong Kong’s changing strategic role during the Cold War and the winding down of the military presence. The book not only focuses on policies and events, but also explores the social life of the garrison in Hong Kong, the struggles between military and civil authorities, and relations between the armed forces and civilians in Hong Kong. Drawing on original research in archives around the world, including English, Japanese, and Chinese sources, this is the first full-length study of the defence of Hong Kong from the beginning of the colonial period to the end of British military interests East of Suez in 1970. Illustrated with images and detailed maps, Eastern Fortress will be of interest to both students of history and general readers. Kwong Chi Man is an assistant professor in the History Department of Hong Kong Baptist University. Tsoi Yiu Lun teaches history and liberal studies at Mu Kuang English School, Hong Kong. “Armed with a range of declassified archives—many of them unpublished—Kwong and Tsoi expertly weave together military, political, social, and economic history to show how Hong Kong played a strategic role in East Asia and the British Empire from the early 1840s to the 1970s. Eastern Fortress is a must-read for anyone interested in Hong Kong and its history.” —John Carroll, author of A Concise History of Hong Kong and Edge of Empires: Chinese Elites and British Colonials in Hong Kong “This careful and well-written study does a difficult balancing act very well indeed. It connects the military history of Hong Kong to both the general Hong Kong experience and the wider military history of the region and beyond. Weaving its way with confidence from archive to library, from grand strategy to battlefield, this volume provides what we have long needed. Hong Kong’s experience was unique, but at the same time it was integrally connected to the wider circles of empire, region, and Asia. Nothing brings that trajectory out more strongly than the military dimension, and by ranging from the Opium War to the Cold War, with a critical eye, this volume does that story justice. It is the capstone that brings together a generation of good scholarship on the military history of Hong Kong.” —Brian Farrell, author of The Basis and Making of British Grand Strategy 1940–1943: Was There a Plan? and co-author of Between Two Oceans: A Military History of Singapore from First Settlement to Final British Withdrawal
Author : Patrick H. Hase
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
ISBN 13 : 9622098991
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (22 download)
Download or read book The Six-Day War of 1899 written by Patrick H. Hase and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1899, a year after the Convention of Peking leased the New Territories to Britain, the British moved to establish control. This triggered resistance by the some of the population of the New Territories. There ensued six days of fighting with heavy Chinese casualties. This truly forgotten war has been thoroughly researched for the first time and recounted in lively style by Patrick Hase, an expert on the people and history of the New Territories.
Author : Hai Ren
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136923640
Total Pages : 557 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (369 download)
Download or read book Neoliberalism and Culture in China and Hong Kong written by Hai Ren and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-10-04 with total page 557 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the period leading up to the Hong Kong handover in 1997 - the 'countdown of time', and by using iconic cultural symbols such as the countdown clock, the Hong Kong Museum exhibitions and cultural heritage sites, argues that China has undergone a transition to neoliberal state, in part through its reunification with Hong Kong. The problem of synchronization with the world, a Chinese phrase that epitomizes China's engagement with modern capitalism since the first Opium War, was characterized throughout the 20th century as a 'humiliation', 'weakness', 'tragedy' and 'disaster', with China in the role of the victim of capitalist globalization. During the reunification with Hong Kong, these conventional expressions were replaced by new ones such as 'de-humiliation', 'return', 'self-esteem' and 'revival'. Hai Ren gives an ethnographic and historical analysis of this cultural and political transformation of China's globalization experience by looking closely at public history practices in mainland China and Hong Kong and how the reconfiguration of everyday life and cultural norms led to the development of this neoliberal China. As a book which straddles Chinese and Hong Kong, history, politics, cultural heritage and museum studies more generally, it can be regarded as a work of cultural political economy which will appeal to students and scholars of all of the above.
Author : Max WL Wong
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9811516448
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (115 download)
Download or read book Chinese Marriage and Social Change written by Max WL Wong and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-02-10 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a comparative account of the abolition of concubinage in East Asia, offering a new perspective and revised analysis of the factors leading to – and the debates surrounding – the introduction of a new Marriage Reform Ordinance in Hong Kong in 1971. It uses this law as a platform to examine how the existence of concubinage – long preserved in the name of protecting Chinese traditions and customs — crucially influenced family law reforms, which were in response to a perceived need to create a ‘modern’ marriage system within Hong Kong’s Chinese community after the Second World War. This was, by and large, the result of continued pressure from within Hong Kong and from Britain to bring Hong Kong’s marriage system in line with international marriage treaties. It represented one of the last significant intrusions of colonial law into the private sphere of Hong Kong social life, eliminating Chinese customs which had been previously recognised by the colonial legal system’s family law. This book contextualizes the Hong Kong situation by examining judicial cases interpreting Chinese customs and the Great Qing Code, offering a comprehensive understanding of the Hong Kong situation in relation to the status of concubines in Republican China and other East Asian jurisdictions. It will be of particular interest to teachers and students of law, as well as researchers in gender studies, post-colonialism, sociology and cultural studies.
Author : Jung-fang Tsai
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231079334
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (793 download)
Download or read book Hong Kong in Chinese History written by Jung-fang Tsai and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 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.
Author : Hong Kong
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Annual Report on Hong Kong written by Hong Kong and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Hayes
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
ISBN 13 : 9888139754
Total Pages : 487 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (881 download)
Download or read book The Great Difference written by James Hayes and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2012-07-01 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Stewart Lockhart called it "the great difference". Returned from an inspection tour of the newly leased extension to Hong Kong territory in August 1898, Lockhart, a senior Hong Kong colonial official, had used this phrase to describe the gulf between the New Territories and its people and the existing British colony of Hong Kong and its inhabitants. In this volume, James Hayes argues that this "the great difference" led the colonial government to administer the New Territories and its people differently from the old urban area from the outset, resulting in repercussions that affect present-day Hong Kong. The study covers the whole period of the Lease, with all its crowded events and dramatic changes, as they affected the native inhabitants and their relationship with the government and, over time, the many times larger new urban population. James Hayes (PhD Lond; HonDLitt, HK) is a scholar of the Hong Kong region and its people. He worked in the New Territories for almost half his thirty-two years of government service, and was Regional Secretary in charge of district administration there in 1985-87. His publications include Friends and Teachers: Hong Kong and Its People 1953-87 (Hong Kong University Press, 1996) and South China Village Culture (2001).
Author : Tōyō Bunko (Japan)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 820 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Catalogue of the Asiatic Library of Dr. G. E. Morrison, Now a Part of the Oriental Library, Tokyo, Japan: English books written by Tōyō Bunko (Japan) and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 820 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joseph Tse-Hei Lee
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230622410
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)
Download or read book Marginalization in China written by Joseph Tse-Hei Lee and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-06-22 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together historians, sociologists, and political scientists, this volume documents persistent prejudices against consistently marginal groups in China, and the moral claims they have mustered in response.
Author : Siu Keung Cheung
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135861722
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (358 download)
Download or read book Gender and Community Under British Colonialism written by Siu Keung Cheung and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-12-14 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gender and Community Under British Colonialism is a study of continuity and change in village communities in the New Territories of Hong Kong, China.
Author : James Hayes
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
ISBN 13 : 9888139118
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (881 download)
Download or read book The Hong Kong Region 1850-1911 written by James Hayes and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Göran Aijmer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000217582
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Leadership on the China Coast written by Göran Aijmer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-06-23 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780716516248
Total Pages : 714 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (162 download)
Download or read book Correspondence, Dispatches, Reports, Ordinances, Memoranda and Other Papers Relating to the Affairs of Hong Kong, 1846-60 written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thereafter there was in China a steady extension of the treaty port pattern so established, reflected in papers on the mechanisms and costs of empire (postal services, consular courts, maintenance of troops, suppression of piracy), as well as some of its problems (the Chinese coolie trade, rebellion in China, attacks on missionaries). As well the series includes a great many translations of Chinese documents, which are of great value to the historian. -- Publisher's catalogue.
Author : Anthony P. Haydon
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Sir Matthew Nathan written by Anthony P. Haydon and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 102 pages
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Download or read book Index to the Sessional Papers of Hong Kong 1879-1982 written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hong Kong
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Extracts from Papers Relating to the Extension of the Colony of Hongkong written by Hong Kong and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
