Cargando…
Edge of empires : Chinese elites and British colonials in Hong Kong /
In an engaging, revisionist study, John M. Carroll argues that in the century after the Opium War, Hong Kong's colonial nature helped create a local Chinese business elite. By the end of the nineteenth century, the colonial government saw Chinese businessmen as allies in establishing Hong Kong...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
|---|---|
| Autor principal: | |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Cambridge, Mass. ; London, Eng. :
Harvard University Press,
2005.
|
| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Colonialism and collaboration : Chinese subjects and the making of British Hong Kong
- A better class of Chinese : building the emporium of the east
- Strategic balance : status and respect in the colonial context
- A place of their own : clubs and associations
- Nationalism and identity : the case of Ho Kai
- Preserving Hong Kong : the strike-boycott of 1925-1926
- Transforming the barren island : the 1941 centenary.