The Unruly New Territories : Small Houses, Ancestral Estates, Illegal Structures, and Other Customary Land Practices of Rural Hong Kong.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Merry, Malcolm.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Customary law courts.

Indigenous peoples (International law).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (301 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

HK : Hong Kong University Press, 2020.

Summary:

The Unruly New Territories traces the incorporation of a rural part of imperial China into the British Colony of Hong Kong at the end of the nineteenth century. The book examines how the promises made to local inhabitants shaped the preservation of Chinese customary land law and the creation of privileges for indigenous residents. It explores how these rights, along with resistance to outside authority, influenced policy and legal frameworks throughout the twentieth century and into the era of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

1. An Unruly Territory

2. Treaty, Takeover, and Trouble

3. Land Survey and Settlement

4. Profile of a Territory

5. Preservation of Custom

6. Customary Landholding: Skin and Bones

7. Customary Transfer of Land

8. Customary Institutions

9. Regulation of Customary Institutions

10. Small Houses

11. The Small House Policy

12. Exploitation of Ding Rights

13. Lawfulness of the Policy

14. Article 40

15. Property Theft

16. Illegal Structures

17. Despoliation

Acknowledgements

Index.

Notes:

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OCLC:

1586553055