ISBN:
9789888139118
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (323 p)
Edition:
2nd ed
Series Statement:
Echoes: Classics of Hong Kong Culture and History
Series Statement:
Echoes: Classics of Hong Kong Culture and History Ser.
Parallel Title:
Print version The Hong Kong Region 1850-1911 : Institutions and Leadership in Town and Countryside
DDC:
307
Keywords:
Immunocytochemistry -- Methodology
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Immunology -- Animal models
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Hong Kong (China) ; Social conditions
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Social institutions ; China ; Hong Kong
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
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Online-Publikation
Abstract:
First published in 1977, The Hong Kong Region is a historical reconstruction of village and township society in Hong Kong's New Territories between 1850 and 1911. Drawing on documentary sources and intensive fieldwork, Hayes argues for the part taken by ordinary peasants and shopkeepers in running these communities, and in dealing virtually unaided with routine administration and every form of disaster, natural or man-made. The gentry and imperial bureaucracy, in contrast, played almost no role. A substantial new introduction by the author reviews the research and its wider implications for ou
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; List of Maps; List of Plates; Introduction to the Paperback Edition; Plates; Preface; Introduction; Abbreviations Used in the Text; 1. A General Account of the Hong Kong Region; 2. The Community of Cheung Chau; 3. The Community of Tai O; 4. Shek Pik; 5. Pui O; 6. Ngau Tau Kok Village; 7. Kowloon City and Kowloon Street; 8. Summary and Discussion; Postscript; Appendix; Notes; Glossary; Bibliography; Index;
Note:
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