Description
Book SynopsisThis historical study traces unrest and social transformation in Hong Kong and explores how merchants, the intelligentsia and labourers played important roles in China's social and political movements from the mid-19th century until the first years of the Chinese Republic.
Table of ContentsHistorical Setting: The Making of an Entrepot; A Frontier Settlement: The Chinese Community Under Alien Rule, 1840s-1860s; The Chinese Community in a Colonial Situation, the 1870s-1900s; Coolies in the British Colony; Popular Insurrection in 1884 During the Sino-French War; Coolie Unrest and Elitist Nationalism, 1887-1900; The Anti-American Boycott, 1905-6; The Anti-Japanese Boycott and Riot in 1908; Hong Kong in the Chinese Revolution, 1911-12; The Boycott of the Hong Kong Tramway, 1912-13.
