John Pope Hennessy and the Translation of ‘Slavery’ between late nineteenth‐century Barbados and Hong Kong

2003 ◽  
Vol 55 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Lambert ◽  
Philip Howell
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Hong Kong ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Late Nineteenth

The Bear Yawns? Russian and Soviet Relations with Macao

2006 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-58
Author(s):  
Michael Share
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Hong Kong ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Soviet Communism ◽  
Foreign Ministry ◽  
Over Time

AbstractFrom the late nineteenth century until the hand-over of Macao to Chinese rule about one hundred years later, Russia and the Soviet Union demonstrated discernible, though far from overwhelming, interest in the tiny Portuguese territory of Macao. Their activities and involvement in the enclave served as an interesting contrast and coda to their more extensive dealings with the larger entities of British Hong Kong and even more problematic Taiwan. Both Tsarist Russia and the Soviet Union had definite policies towards both Hong Kong and Taiwan; though policy emphasis altered dramatically over time, especially towards Hong Kong, both regimes sought to expand their trade with, and activities in, those territories. Soviet and Russian policies toward Macao were in some ways less consistent, circumscribed by the relative insignificance of the territory, and also for several decades from the 1920s onward by the implacable long-term hostility of the fascist Portuguese government toward Soviet Communism. Even so, the fact that first Russian and then Soviet foreign policymakers assigned some importance to Macao is amply demonstrated by the Foreign Ministry Archive, which contains nearly thirty files of varying size spanning the period from 1910 to 1987.

A National Custom: Debating Female Servitude in Late Nineteenth-Century Hong Kong

2009 ◽  
Vol 43 (6) ◽  
pp. 1463-1493 ◽  
Author(s):  
JOHN M. CARROLL
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Hong Kong ◽  
Unintended Consequences ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Colonial Discourse ◽  
Colonial State ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Colonial Policies

AbstractThis article frames the debate about mui-tsai (meizai, female bondservants) in late nineteenth-century Hong Kong within changing conceptions of the colony's political, geographical and cultural position. Whereas some colonial officials saw the mui-tsai system as a national shame that challenged Britain's commitment to ending slavery, others argued that it was an archaic custom that would eventually dissolve as China modernized. The debate also showed the rise of a class of Chinese elites who had accumulated enough power to defend the mui-tsai system as a time-honoured Chinese custom, even while acknowledging that in Hong Kong they lived beyond the boundaries of Chinese sovereignty. Challenging notions of the reach of the colonial state and showing how colonial policies often had unintended consequences, this debate also reveals the analytical and explanatory weakness of concepts such as ‘colonial discourse’ or ‘the colonial mind’.

Contents of Western Sociology of Religion as a Science and Educational Discipline

2002 ◽  
pp. 106-110
Author(s):  
Liudmyla O. Fylypovych
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
International Society ◽  
Sociology Of Religion ◽  
Scientific Study ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
The West ◽  
Late Nineteenth

Sociology of religion in the West is a field of knowledge with at least 100 years of history. As a science and as a discipline, the sociology of religion has been developing in most Western universities since the late nineteenth century, having established traditions, forming well-known schools, areas related to the names of famous scholars. The total number of researchers of religion abroad has never been counted, but there are more than a thousand different centers, universities, colleges where religion is taught and studied. If we assume that each of them has an average of 10 religious scholars, theologians, then the army of scholars of religion is amazing. Most of them are united in representative associations of researchers of religion, which have a clear sociological color. Among them are the most famous International Society for the Sociology of Religion (ISSR) and the Society for Scientific Study of Religion (SSSR).

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