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
contents vii
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