The Hong Kong region, 1850-1911 : institutions and leadership in town and countryside / by James Hayes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hayes, James, 1930-

Series:

Echoes: Classics of Hong Kong Culture and History

Echoes : classics of Hong Kong culture and history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social institutions--China--Hong Kong.

Social institutions.

Hong Kong (China)--Social conditions.

Hong Kong (China).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (323 p.)

Edition:

Pbk. ed.

Place of Publication:

Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

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.

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.

Notes:

"With a new introduction".

Based on the author's thesis, University of London.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-57810-7

9786613890559

988-220-892-4

OCLC:

795120407