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Meeting place : encounters across cultures in Hong Kong, 1841-1984

Title: Meeting place : encounters across cultures in Hong Kong, 1841-1984 / edited by Elizabeth Sinn and Christopher Munn.
Publication: Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, [2017]

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xix, 198 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

Meeting Place: Encounters across Cultures in Hong Kong, 1841-1984 presents detailed empirical studies of day-to-day interactions among people of different cultures in a variety of settings. The broad conclusion-that there was sustained and multilevel contact between men and women of different cultures-will challenge and complicate traditional historical understandings of Hong Kong as a city either of rigid segregation or of pervasive integration. Given its geographical location, its status as a free port, and its role as a center of migration, Hong Kong was an extraordinarily porous place. People of diverse cultures met and mingled here, often with unexpected results. The case studies in this book draw both on previously unused sources and on a rigorous rereading of familiar materials. They explore relationships among and within the Japanese, Eurasian, German, Portuguese, British, Chinese, and other communities in areas of activity that have often been overlooked-from the schoolroom and the family home to the courtroom and international trading concern, from the gardens of Government House to boarding houses for destitute sailors. In their diverse experiences we see not just East meeting West, but also East meeting East, and South meeting North-in fact, a range of complex and dynamic processes that seem to render obsolete any simplistic conception of "East meets West."

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Note

"This volume grew out of the 'Multicultural encounters' workshop held in January 2013 at the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences, the University of Hong Kong."--Page vi.

Bibliography (note)

Include bibliographical references (pages 175-186) and index.

Contents

Wang Tao in Hong Kong and the Chinese "Other" / Elizabeth Sinn -- From dried seafood to instant Ramen: "Japanese" industrial food and Hong Kong foodways / Yoshiko Nakano -- The code of silence across the Hong Kong Eurasian community(ies) / Vicky Lee -- The making of accomplished women: English education for girls in colonial Hong Kong, 1890s-1940s / Patricia P.K. Chiu -- "No day without a deed to crown it": childhood, empire, and the ministering children's league / David M. Pomfret -- Western firms and their Chinese compradors: the case of the Jebsen and Chau families / Bert Becker -- The parallel worlds of seafarers: connections and disconnections on the Hong Kong Waterfront (1841-1970) / Stephen Davies -- Carvalho Yeo and the 1928 Hong Kong treasury swindle / Christopher Munn.

ISBN

9789888390847
9888390848

OCLC

on1018283346
1018283346
SCSB-9041814

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Princeton University Library