Foreign Communities In Hong Kong, 1840s-1950s

by Chu, Cindy Yik-yi

• ISBN13: 9781403970596
• ISBN10: 1403970599
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-10-07
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This collection of essays describes adaptations of ethnic minority groups to cross-cultural situations in Hong Kong from the 1840s through the 1950s. It aims to portray Hong Kong history through the perspectives of foreign communities--the British, Germans, Americans, Indians, and Japanese--and to understand how they perceived the economic situation, political administration, and culture of the colony.

Author Biography

Cindy Yik-yi Chu is Associate Professor of History at the Hong Kong Baptist University.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
A Note on Romanization	xi
About the Contributors	xiii
1. Introduction	1	(16)
Cindy Yik-yi Chu
2. Early Beginnings of British Community (1841-1898)	17	(22)
Gillian Bickley
3. British Attitudes toward Hong Kong in the Nineteenth Century	39	(22)
Gillian Bickley
4. Nineteenth-Century German Community	61	(24)
Ricardo K.S. Mak
5. Catholic Church between Two World Wars	85	(26)
Cindy Yik-yi Chu
6. Making of a Japanese Community in Prewar Period (1841-1941)	111	(22)
Benjamin Wai-ming Ng
7. Stanley Civilian Internment Camp during Japanese Occupation	133	(22)
Cindy Yik-yi Chu
8. Migrants from India and Their Relations with British and Chinese Residents	155	(16)
Caroline Plüss
9. American "China Hands" in the 1950's	171	(24)
Chi-kwan Mark
Suggestions for Further Reading	195	(6)
Index	201