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Hong Kong's history : state and society under colonial rule

Title: Hong Kong's history : state and society under colonial rule / edited by Tak-Wing Ngo.
Publication: London ; New York : Routledge, 1999.

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Additional Authors

Ngo, Tak-Wing, 1962-

Description

xii, 205 pages; 24 cm

Summary

Hong Kong's rise from obscure fishing port to world city is usually put down to good colonial rule by Britain. This book challenges such a view and shows how the city's success was shaped by the ruling elite and other native Hong Kongers.

Series Statement

Routledge studies in Asia's transformations

Uniform Title

Routledge studies in Asia's transformations

Subjects

Genre/Form

History.
History (form)

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 180-197) and index.

Contents

Colonialism in Hong Kong revisited / Tak-Wing Ngo -- Chinese collaboration in the making of British Hong Kong / John M. Carroll -- Comprador politics and middleman capitalism / Hui Po-Keung -- The criminal trial under early colonial rule / Christopher Munn -- State building and rural stability / Stephen W.K. Chiu and Ho-Fung Hung -- Social movements and public discourse on politics / Tai-Lok Lui and Stephen W.K. Chiu -- Industrial history and the artifice of laissez-faire colonialism / Tak-Wing Ngo --State-business relations and industrial restructuring / Alex H. Choi -- Flexible manufacturing in a colonial economy / Kim-Ming Lee.

ISBN

0415203058
9780415203050
0415208688
9780415208680

LCCN

99011839

OCLC

ocm40714221
40714221
SCSB-14447459

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library