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Eurasian
In the second half of the nineteenth century, global labor migration, trade, and overseas study brought China and the United States into close contact, leading to new cross-cultural encounters that brought mixed-race families into being. Yet the stories of these families remain largely unknown. How did interracial families negotiate their identities within these societies when mixed-race marriage was taboo and “Eurasian” often a derisive term? In Eurasian, Emma Jinhua Teng compares Chinese-Western mixed-race families in the United States, China, and Hong Kong, examining both the range of ideas that shaped the formation of Eurasian identities in these diverse contexts and the claims set f...
Colonial Hong Kong and Modern China
Essays examine the relationship between Hong Kong and China.
人間到處有青山：四大寇之尢列傳
與孫中山並列「四大寇」的尢列，出身廣東順德富家，本該過?優渥舒適的生活，然而他耳聞目睹清政府的腐敗無能、列強無止境的侵凌，義憤填膺，受時代的感召，毅然踏上革命一途，立下「志不成時誓不還」之宏志。以後為革命大半生飄泊，散盡家財，行蹤無定；又為親近百姓，懸壺濟世，宣揚革命思想；晚年生活貧困，需人接濟，惟仍憂懷國事，四出奔走，至死方休。 本書介紹尢列一生的足跡，也論其同時代人和他所身處的世界，特別是他與香港的種種關係。本書亦是尢列的家族史。過往有關尢列的研究甚少，一方面是尢列生前的藏書、文稿等不是毀於火災，便是早已散佚。另一方面是尢列一生低調，不慕名，不為利，對革命一直抱功成不居的態度，以往事跡亦不彰，故流傳至今的記載不多。本書嘗試多方面搜尋資料，排比考證，客觀地重構尢列的生平面貌。
Framing Europe
Publisher Description
Hong Kong
This is Volume IV in a series of six on the Sociology of East Asia. Originally published in 1969, the aim was to fill the lack of sociological studies of Hong Kong at the time.
Roma the First
Roma Mitchell contributed importantly to her times, pioneering a new kind of womanhood and becoming an inspiration in terms of opportunities and freedoms for women in Australia.
Power and Politics at the Colonial Seaside
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 leaders, backed by the rhetoric of public health and nationalism, respectively, transformed the Hong Kong seaside into a leisure space. She argues that the growing popularity of seaside resorts and sea bathing as a preferred form of leisure activity across the social and ethnic spectrums served an important role in shaping the racial relationship between Westerners and the Chinese population, as well as the Chinese people’s perception of the female body and the seaside, during the colonial period. The popularity of British leisure forms in colonial Hong Kong does not necessarily mean the triumph of “Britishness.” This book will be of great interest to historians with an interest in leisure and in Empire and Colonialism, as well as historians of Colonial Hong Kong and Modern China.
Edge of Empires
In Edge of Empires, Carroll situates Hong Kong squarely within the framework of both Chinese and British colonial history, while exploring larger questions about the meaning and implications of colonialism in modern history.
