Bound to Emancipate: Working Women and Urban Citizenship in Early Twentieth-Century China and Hong Kong by Angelina Chin

2013 ◽  
Vol 20 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 69-71
Author(s):  
Jing Jing Chang
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Hong Kong ◽  
Working Women ◽  
Urban Citizenship ◽  
Early Twentieth Century

Macanese Publics Fight for the ‘Hongkong Man’

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine S. Chan
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Hong Kong ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Alternative Development ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
British Colony ◽  
Permanent Settlement

Moving away from the dominant anti-colonial discourses in early twentieth-century Asia, the Macanese activities in Hong Kong reveal an alternative development linked to the emergence of multiracial associations and the rise of an Anglophone public sphere. Some local-born, English-educated Macanese participated in the construction of an early civil society rooted on a shared perception of the British colony as a ‘home’ and a permanent settlement. Nevertheless, this Anglicized identity did not represent the entire generation of Macanese youth who were born and raised in Hong Kong. While the pursuits of J.P. Braga, Leo d’Almada e Castro and Clotilde Barretto demonstrate the propagation of a more local strand among the Macanese, Montalto de Jesus opted to move in the Portuguese sphere.

The Quest for Urban Citizenship: Civic Rights, Public Opinion, and Colonial Resistance in Early Twentieth-Century Bombay

2000 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 797-829 ◽  
Author(s):  
SANDIP HAZAREESINGH
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Public Opinion ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Historical Writing ◽  
Urban Citizenship ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Low Profile ◽  
Relative Neglect ◽  
Colonial Resistance ◽  
Manuel Castells

Although the issue of citizenship has attracted the interest of some political scientists in relation to the problems of contemporary Indian democracy, historians have generally tended to shy away from exploring the concrete demands for civic rights that accompanied, but were by no means identical with, the struggle for national self-determination. Indeed, the dominance of nationalist and nation-oriented frameworks in Indian historical writing has tended to thwart interest in the materialities of local issues directly affecting the livelihoods of people. The astoundingly low profile accorded to what Manuel Castells described more than a quarter of a century ago as ‘the urban question’, is a revealing manifestation of the relative neglect of local and social histories.

Mobility on the Move

Transfers ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 88-107
Author(s):  
M. William Steele
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Hong Kong ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Personal Mobility ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Late Nineteenth

The rickshaw initiated an explosion in personal mobility in Asia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Invented in Japan in 1869, by 1872 there were forty thousand and by 1875 over one hundred thousand of the new two-wheel vehicles on the streets of Tokyo. The number reached a peak in 1896 with 210,000 countrywide. The rickshaw (in Japanese, jinrikisha) quickly spread to Asia, to Shanghai and Hong Kong in 1874, to Singapore and Calcutta in 1880. By 1900, the rickshaw had spread throughout the continent, bringing with it new mobility to an emerging urban middle class. Moreover, for many people in Asia, the rickshaw alongside the locomotive, came to symbolize modernity. This article will explore routes of diffusion, focusing on the role played by Akiha Daisuke and his adopted son, Akiha Daisuke II, Japan's largest exporters of rickshaws, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

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