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Hong Kong is a unique city in the history of China. After the Opium War, Hong Kong developed from a small fishing village to a cosmopolitan city in the recent 100 years. It is a modern city that retains its Chinese traditions and a Chinese city that is integrated into the world system. Traditional Chinese culture, modernization, colonialism, and post-colonialism are all key words to understand this city. This course will introduce the history of Hong Kong's political, economic, and cultural development, discuss the challenges and coping mechanisms that Hong Kong has encountered in the process of urban development, and then understand the connections and communications between modern China and the world through Hong Kong.
本书内容涵盖史前至1997年香港的政治、经济、社会、文化、教育等领域，是一部全面、系统、权威的香港通史性质的中文著作。全书共分十五章，第一章介绍古代香港的概况，第二章到第十章介绍英占香港地区时期的政法制度、经济、社会状况、文化教育等情况，第十一章介绍日占时期的概况，第十二章到十五章介绍二十世纪后期的政治、经济、社会状况、文化教育等情况。书末还附有香港大事年表、历任香港总督列表等资料。
This book 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 as a commercial center. The idea of a commercially vibrant China united them. Chinese and British leaders cooperated on issues of mutual concern, such as the expansion of capitalism and political and economic directions for an ailing China. The book 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.
This book collects 9 essays, covering the Chinese collaboration with the colonial regime, legal discrimination and intimidation, rural politics, social movements, government-business relations, industrial policy, flexible manufacturing and colonial historiography. Challenging the mainstream view that British rule transformed a barely inhabited fishing port on the South China coast to a capitalist metropolis, the book shows that the development of the colony owed very little to the good policies of the colonial state, but was shaped by the actions of the ruling elite, business class, compradors, rural interests, social activists and marginalized groups in their struggle for domination, manipulation of conflicts, as well as in collaboration and compromise.
