1st Edition
Power and Politics at the Colonial Seaside Leisure in British Hong Kong
By Shuk-Wah Poon
Copyright 2023
148 Pages
18 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
148 Pages
18 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
148 Pages
18 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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A study of the complex role of the seaside as a leisure space in colonial Hong Kong.
British sports were in many respects more meaningful in the empire than literature, music, art, or religion. They served as an instrument of cultural association and later of cultural change, promoting imperial union and then postimperial goodwill. Poon analyses the ways in which British colonists and Chinese... Read more
1. Introduction 2. Politics of Recreation: Colonial Governance and the Bathing Beaches, 1842–1930s 3. Nationalism and Collaboration: Chinese Sports Associations and Sea Bathing in Hong Kong 4. Cross Harbour Swim: Competition and Integration 5. Liberty and Morality of the Body on the Beach 6. Seaside Tourism: Class, Race, and Spatial Reconfigurations of Repulse Bay, 1920–1982 7. Epilogue: From the Seaside to the Swimming Pool
Biography
Shuk-Wah Poon is Associate Professor of History at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
