Writing Women's Histories: women in the colonial record of nineteenth-century Hong Kong

AbstractBy the nineteenth century, with the advance of British colonial activities, British corporate laws had been transplanted to maritime Asia with varying degrees of vigour. In British Hong Kong, these laws often clashed with native customs. Through a reconstruction of the legal disputes found in urban Hong Kong, this paper discusses how British and Chinese business traditions interacted with each other during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Before assessing the historical implications and consequences of these legal decisions, this paper will also explore whether the Chinese institution of tong is compatible with British law in urban Hong Kong.

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Peter J. Golas, Picturing Technology in China. From Earliest times to the Nineteenth Century, Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2015, xv, 205 pp.

East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine ◽

10.1163/26669323-05001008 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 50 (1) ◽

pp. 163-167

Author(s):

Delphine Spicq

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

Hong Kong

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Part I Finance in Hong Kong, 1 Hong Kong’s Financial Markets: Evolution and Overview

10.1093/law/9780198706472.003.0001 ◽

2016 ◽

Author(s):

Arner Douglas W ◽

Hsu Berry FC ◽

Goo Say H ◽

Johnstone Syren ◽

Lejot Paul ◽

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Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

Hong Kong ◽

Financial Markets ◽

Financial Centre ◽

Financial Activity ◽

Historical Developments ◽

Institutional Foundations

The chapter provides an in-depth discussion and analysis of finance in Hong Kong, today one of the world’s major international financial centres, focusing on historical developments along with some of the unique or unusual features of those markets. The chapter considers financial law in relation to financial activity as a whole, and within each segment of Hong Kong’s markets. Hong Kong has been a port of trade since the mid-nineteenth century and subsequent centre of commerce. However, only recently has it developed as a major financial centre. It is known for its unusual institutional foundations, the nature of which are analysed and contrasted at intervals in this book with those of other sophisticated financial hubs.

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Thomson's China. Travels and adventures of a nineteenth-century photographer. By John Thomson, with an introduction and new illustration selection by Judith Balmer. pp. xxiii, 16 pl., pp. vii, 225, illus., maps. Hong Kong etc., Oxford University Press, 1993, £20.00.

Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society ◽

10.1017/s1356186300015224 ◽

1996 ◽

Vol 6 (1) ◽

pp. 143-145

Author(s):

David Wright

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

Hong Kong ◽

Oxford University ◽

Oxford University Press

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Glocalizing Medicine in the Canton–Hong Kong–Macau Region in Late Qing China

Modern Asian Studies ◽

10.1017/s0026749x18000513 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 54 (4) ◽

pp. 1345-1366

Author(s):

ANGELA KI CHE LEUNG

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

Hong Kong ◽

Health Management ◽

Medical Knowledge ◽

Institution Building ◽

Medical Culture ◽

New Public Health ◽

New Public ◽

And Migration ◽

Southern Fringe

AbstractThis article looks at how globalization in the nineteenth century was inextricably entangled with localization in the Canton–Hong Kong–Macau nexus on the southern fringe of China by tracing the growth of its unique medical culture. It explains the ‘glocalizing’ process by tracing the development of this medical culture, which consists of knowledge construction and institution building, in the context of highly volatile epidemiological conditions aggravated by increasingly heavy inter-regional trade and migration. It traces the dynamic circulation of people, materials, ideas, and practices in this southern edge of China, which was traditionally connected to southeast Asia and shared ecological backdrops that produced similar epidemiological experiences. The Canton nexus in the nineteenth century saw the growth of native medical knowledge that focused less on theoretical innovation than on the efficacy of therapeutic strategies. These ideas were likely to have been informed or reinforced by new anatomical knowledge disseminated by Western medical missionaries on the ground early in the century. The medical culture in the region was also marked by the formation of a series of local institutions that were fusions of Western-style hospitals and native merchant-run charity halls where diseases were studied and treated, and new public health management negotiated and implemented by experts from different traditions.

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Anglican Women and Social Service in Hong Kong

Christian Women in Chinese Society ◽

10.5790/hongkong/9789888455928.003.0012 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 239-252

Author(s):

Jane Lee

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

Hong Kong ◽

Women Leaders ◽

Social Services ◽

The Elderly ◽

Women's Work ◽

First Century ◽

Leadership Roles ◽

Women’S Work ◽

Women And Children

This chapter explores the contribution of Anglican women, Chinese and British, in the promotion of welfare for women and children in Hong Kong from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. The narrative covers four areas of progress in chronological order, which include: Elevating Social Status through Education, Advocating Women’s Rights through Social Movements, the establishment of the Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui Women’s League, and women leaders in social services. It presents an account of change and continuity in the development of women’s work for women: from British women’s work of charity and evangelism to Chinese women’s assumption of leadership roles; from protection of girls and women in the nineteenth century, to pioneering nursery and child care in postwar rehabilitation, and providing holistic care to the elderly and marginalised in twenty-first century.

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