COntents

Volume One

PARt One

POLitiCs

introduction  ..................................................................................................... 1

1. birth and early Problems  ...................................................................... 17 George B. Endacott

2. Race, space and the Regulation of Prostitution in Colonial Hong Kong  ................................................................................................. 37

Philip Howell

3. Crisis: the Plague, 1894  .......................................................................... 59 Elizabeth Sinn

4. April 1899: the War  ................................................................................ 87 Patrick H. Hase

5. the Guangzhou-Hong Kong strike-boycott, June 1925–October 1926  ......................................................................... 137

Chan Lau Kit-ching

6. A bird’s-eye View  ..................................................................................... 169 Steve Tsang

7. Lack of Means or Loss of Will? the United Kingdom and the decolonization of Hong Kong, 1957–1967  ........................................ 197

Chi-Kwan Mark

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8. the struggle for Autonomy  .................................................................. 227 Leo F. Goodstadt

9. the Garden Road incident on May 22, 1967  .................................... 257 Gary Ka-wai Cheung

10. ‘Cultural Revolution in Hong Kong’: emergency Powers, Administration of Justice and the turbulent Year of 1967  ......... 275

Ray Yep

11. Learning from Civil Unrest: state/society Relations in Hong Kong before and After the 1967 disturbances  .................... 301

Alan Smart and Tai-lok Lui

12. Autonomous Hong Kong, 1972–1982  ................................................. 321 Ian Scott

13. british Legal Culture and Colonial Governance: the Attack on Corruption in Hong Kong, 1968–1974  ......................................... 365

Mark Hampton

14. Administrative Absorption of Politics in Hong Kong: emphasis on the Grass Roots Levels  ................................................. 383

Ambrose Yeo-chi King

15. the Culture of depoliticization and Political Activism  .............. 405 Lam Wai-man

16. Crime and Courts 1945–1960  ................................................................ 423 Carol Jones and Jon Vagg

Volume Two

17. the tiananmen incident and the Rebirth of the democracy Project  ......................................................................................................... 447

Alvin Y. So

18. Passage to Reunification: From 1990 to 1997  .................................. 477 Christine Loh

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19. Crossing the 1997 divide  ....................................................................... 519 Suzanne Pepper

PARt tWO

CULtURe And sOCietY

20. Hong Kong island before 1841  ............................................................. 549 James Hayes

21. the emergence of a Chinese Élite in Hong Kong  ......................... 581 Carl T. Smith

22. the birth of a eurasian Community .................................................. 617 Vicky Lee

23. A Place of their Own: Clubs and Associations  ............................... 631 John M. Carroll

24. Caste, Class and Race in Hong Kong before the Japanese Occupation  ................................................................................................ 657 Henry J. Lethbridge

25. the World turned Upside down  ........................................................ 681 Philip Snow

26. Cultural Coloniality: the english Language and schooling  ....... 763 Law Wing Sang

27. A national Custom: debating Female servitude in Late nineteenth-Century Hong Kong  ............................................... 795

John M. Carroll

28. Rural society: Hong Kong’s new territories  ................................... 825 James L. Watson

29. Chinese Culture in the Hong Kong Curriculum: Heritage and Colonialism  ............................................................................................... 839

Bernard Hung-kay Luk

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30. the Malling of Hong Kong  .................................................................. 861 Tai-lok Lui

Volume Three

31. Hong Kong: Other Histories, Other Politics  ................................... 881 Ackbar Abbas

32. Life in the Cities: the emergence of Hong Kong Man  ............... 903 Hugh D.R. Baker

33. the Chinese society i: Major normative themes and Utilitarianistic Familism  ....................................................................... 917

Lau Siu-kai

34. shek Kip Mei  ............................................................................................ 939 Alan Smart

35. Hong Kong: Cultural Kaleidoscope on a World Landscape  ...... 963 Helen F. Siu

PARt tHRee

eCOnOMY

36. Hub of the China trade  ........................................................................ 983 David R. Meyer

37. Jardine, Matheson, and Company and the Making of the british Merchant Class  .......................................................................... 1015

Chan Wai Kwan

38. Finance and Politics in Guangdong, 1912–16  .................................. 1061 Stephanie Po-yin Chung

39. industrial skills and Resources  ........................................................... 1079 Wong Siu-Lun

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40. the Arrangement that Lived Up to its name  ................................ 1121 Lawrence Mills

41. industrial History and the Artifice of Laissez-faire Colonialism  ............................................................................................... 1133

Tak-Wing Ngo

42. From ‘Free’ to ‘Fair’ trade: the evolution of Labour Laws in Colonial Hong Kong, 1958–62  ........................................................ 1157

David Clayton

43. An Avoidable Crisis: the 1965 bank Runs  ...................................... 1181 Leo F. Goodstadt

44. Hong Kong as an international Financial Centre ......................... 1203 Catherine R. Schenk

45. the Pivotal Role of Hong Kong  .......................................................... 1251 Yun-wing Sung

Volume Four

PARt FOUR

CHinA And tHe WORLd

46. ‘Anglo-China’: the Opium War and the british Acquisition of Hong Kong  ................................................................................................ 1281

Christopher Munn

47. the Colony’s shifting Position in the british informal empire in China  ...................................................................................... 1323

Robert A. Bickers

48. the Use of sinology in the nineteenth Century: two Perspectives Revealed in the History of Hong Kong  ......... 1347

Man-kong Wong

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49. Hong Kong in the Chinese Revolution, 1911–12  ............................. 1371 Jung-fang Tsai

50. Hong Kong in sino-british Conflict: Mass Mobilization and the Crisis of Legitimacy, 1912–26  ....................................................... 1405

Ming K. Chan

51. Hong Kong as an in-between Place in the Chinese diaspora, 1849–1939  ................................................................................................... 1443

Elizabeth Sinn

52. Moguls of the Chinese Cinema: the story of the shaw brothers in shanghai, Hong Kong and singapore, 1924–2002  ................................................................................................ 1465

Stephanie Po-yin Chung

53. the War Years, 1937–1941  ..................................................................... 1483 Chan Lau Kit-ching

54. the Walled City of Kowloon  ............................................................... 1515 Peter Wesley-Smith

55. Overt and Covert Functions of the Hong Kong branch of the Xinhua news Agency, 1947–1984  ....................................................... 1537

Cindy Yik-yi Chu

56. to be or not to be a Refugee: the international Politics of the Hong Kong Refugee Crisis, 1949–55  ..................................... 1555

Glen Peterson

57. Vietnam War tourists: Us naval Visits to Hong Kong and british-American-Chinese Relations, 1965–1968  ........................... 1583

Chi-kwan Mark

58. the empire strikes back: Hong Kong and the decline of sterling in the 1960s  ............................................................................... 1617

Catherine R. Schenk

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59. ‘A Window of Opportunity’  ................................................................. 1653 Robert Cottrell

index  ................................................................................................................... 1675