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The Hong Kong region, 1850-1911 institutions and leadership in town and countryside
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Title
The Hong Kong region, 1850-1911 [electronic resource] : institutions and leadership in town and countryside / by James Hayes.
ISBN
9789882208926 (electronic bk.)
9789888139118
Published
Aberdeen, Hong Kong, China : Hong Kong University Press, 2012 (Baltimore, Md. : Project Muse, 2012) (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2012)
Physical Description
1 online resource (1 electronic text (289 p.) :) ill., digital file.
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Notes
Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
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Summary
The Hong Kong Region, now being reprinted by Hong Kong University Press in its “Echoes” series, was a historical reconstruction of certain long-settled villages and sub-districts in the New Territories of Hong Kong, and, more specifically, an enquiry into the nature of local society in the late Qing period, 1850-1911. Since the book was published in 1977, and much new material has appeared in print in the intervening thirty-four years, a new Introduction is called for. It will describe the favorable circumstances in which I came to research its contents, re-state the book's main propositions, review them in the light of the scholarly studies which bear on these topics, and update and carry them forward with the assistance of other authors and through my own later research and publications.
Variant and related titles
Project MUSE - UPCC 2010-2012 Current Complete Collection Bundle.
Project MUSE - UPCC 2012 Current Complete Collection.
Project MUSE - UPCC 2012 History Collection.
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
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Print version:
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 26, 2012
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-280) and index.
Contents
List of maps
List of plates
Introduction to the paperback edition
Preface
Introduction
Abbreviations
1. A general account of the Hong Kong Region
2. The community of Cheung Chau
3. The community of Tai O
4. Shek Pik: a multilineage settlement of Cantonese farmers
5. Pui O: a linked group of Hakka and Punti farming villages
6. Ngau Tau Kok village: a newer, specialist settlement of Hakkas
7. Kowloon City and Kowloon Street: the community institutions of a Yamen, market, and rural subdistrict
8. Summary and discussion
Postscript: the nature of the political situation in 1898, and its relevance for loacl leadership patterns.
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Electronic books.
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