Reluctant heroes : rickshaw pullers in Hong Kong and Canton, 1874-1954 / Chi Ming Fung.

By:

Fung, Chi Ming

Contributor(s):

Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong studies seriesPublication details: Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press ; [London] : [Eurospan, distributor], ©2005.Description: 1 online resource (xx, 216 pages) : illustrations, mapContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9789882202658
9882202659

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Reluctant heroes.DDC classification:

388.341 22

LOC classification:

HD8039.R52 C64 2005eb

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Contents:

Illustrations; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; Editorial Conventions; Introduction; Part One -- Across the Colonial Matrix; 1.A City of Sojourners and Transients; 2. The Urban Workplace and Street Politics; 3. British Rule and Chinese Valiancy, up to 1926; Part Two -- Republical Canton 1911-38; 4. Evolution of a New Civic Paradigm; 5. Partisan Politics and the 1927 Insurrection; 6. Reforms on the Municipal Agenda in the 1930s; Part Three -- Within A Fast -- Changing Context; 7. Growing Passion for Change, up to 1941; 8. Surviving in the Pacific War, 1937-45.

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In: HKU Press digital editionsSummary: Reluctant Heroes is a fascinating study of rickshaw pullers in Hong Kong and Canton.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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