1st Edition
Hong Kong's History State and Society Under Colonial Rule
Edited By Tak-Wing Ngo
Copyright 1999
218 Pages
by
Routledge
217 Pages
by
Routledge
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Rewriting Hong Kong's history from the bottom up, the chapters investigate vital, but hitherto obscured, aspects of the colony's rise. They cover the Chinese collaboration with the colonial regime, legal discrimination and intimidation, rural politics, social movements, government-business relations, industrial policy, flexible manufacturing and colonial historiography. Drawing together... Read more
1 Colonialism in Hong Kong revisited 2 Chinese collaboration in the making of British Hong Kong 3 Comprador politics and middleman capitalism 4 The criminal trial under early colonial rule 5 State building and rural stability 6 Social movements and public discourse on politics 7 Industrial history and the artifice of laissez-faire colonialism 8 State–business relations and industrial restructuring 9 Flexible manufacturing in a colonial economy
Biography
Tak-Wing Ngo is Lecturer in Chinese Politics at Leiden University, and currently Fellow of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences at the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.
