“Our Position in the Far East would be Stronger without this Unsatisfactory Commitment”: Britain and the Reinforcement of Hong Kong, 1941

1995 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 231-259 ◽  
Author(s):  
Galen Roger Perras
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Far East ◽  
The Far East

The “Scrubby Scotch Screw Company”: British India Steam Navigation Co.'s Coastal Services in South Asia, 1862-1870

1992 ◽  
pp. 43-72
Author(s):  
J. Forbes Munro
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Indian Ocean ◽  
South Asia ◽  
Far East ◽  
British India ◽  
British Imperialism ◽  
Passenger Traffic ◽  
The Far East ◽  
The Indian Ocean ◽  
Maritime Region

The 1860s were marked by a gradual spread of steamship lines in the Indian Ocean maritime region. On the long routes from Suez and Aden to India, Australia and the Far East, P&O, the “flagship” of British imperialism in the region,1 was joined from 1861 by its French counterpart, Messageries Imperiales, which in its steamship lines from Marseilles to Alexandria and from Suez to Singapore, Saigon, Hong Kong and Yokohama expressed the aspirations and elegance of Napoleon Ill's empire. The two firms politely manoeuvred for passenger traffic and the fine freights--silks, raw silk, opium, bullion and specie--which were the perfect accompaniment for mail and passenger liners....

Fiction and Fact Concerning the Far East - l.T'ien Chün: Village in August. Introduction by Edgar Snow. New York: Smith and Durrell, 1942. Pp. xix, 313. $2.50. - 2.Helen Mears: Year of the Wild Boar, An American Woman in Japan. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1942. Pp. 342. $2.75. - 3.Jan Henrik Marsman: I Escaped from Hong Kong. New York: Reynal and Hitchcock, 1942. Pp. 249. $2.50. - 4.Lennox A. Mills: British Rule in Eastern Asia, A Study of Contemporary Government and Economic Development in British Malaya and Hong Kong. Minneapolis: The University of Minnesota Press. London: Oxford University Press, 1942. Pp. viii, 581. $5.00. - 5.John Leroy Christian: Modern Burma, A Survey of Political and Economic Development. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1942. Pp. ix, 381. $3.00. - 6.Raymond Kennedy: The Ageless Indies. New York: The John Day Company, 1942. Pp. xvi, 208. $2.00. - 7.Eugene H. Miller: Strategy at Singapore. With An Introduction by Captain W. D. Puleston. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1942. Pp. viii, 145. $2.50. - 8.Rupert Emerson: The Netherlands Indies and The United States. Boston: World Peace Foundation, 1942. Pp. 92. $0.50. - 9.Stanley K. Hornbeck: The United States and the Far East: Certain Fundamentals of Policy. Boston: World Peace Foundation, 1942. Pp. vi, 100. $1.00. - 10.V. D. Wickizer and M. K. Bennett: The Rice Economy of Monsoon Asia. Stanford University, California: Food Research Institute. Pp. xiii, 358. $3.50. - 11.G. F. Hudson, Marthe Rajchman, George E. Taylor: An Atlas of Far Eastern Politics. Enlarged edition with supplement for the years 1938 to 1942. New York: The John Day Company. 1942. Pp. 207. $2.50.

1943 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 250-259
Author(s):  
Harley Farnsworth MacNair
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Hong Kong ◽  
Far East ◽  
American Woman ◽  
The United States ◽  
World Peace ◽  
The Far East ◽  
John Day

A NORMATIVE FRAMEWORK FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND INNOVATION IN HONG KONG TOURISM

1997 ◽  
Vol 05 (01) ◽  
pp. 75-88 ◽  
Author(s):  
FRANK M. GO ◽  
ANDREW CHAN
Keyword(s):  
General Practice ◽  
Hong Kong ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
Far East ◽  
Tourism Development ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Central Places ◽  
Local Service ◽  
The Far East ◽  
Business As Usual

This study relates that the 'business-as-usual' scenario has come to an end and questions the general practice of the present ethnocentric-led institutional tourism development in the Far East within an analytical framework. It asserts that global cities play a crucial role in the systematic search for innovation and its diffusion, amongst others, through the regionalization of the metropolitan economies in an hierarchy of central places. The study focuses on Hong Kong, which has the potential to perform the function of "incubator" for innovation and its transfer throughout the region. However, the results indicate that whilst tourism organizations in Hong Kong are engaged in some type of innovation, they do not apply systematic processes to advance innovation. Furthermore, the results also reveal that local service enterprises are less inclined to develop new service offerings in overseas markets than international enterprises.

‘Hong Kong can afford a typhoon or two’: British discussions of revolving storms

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Chi Chi Huang
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
British Empire ◽  
Local Population ◽  
Far East ◽  
Cultural Representations ◽  
Significant Element ◽  
The Far East ◽  
Weather Events ◽  
British Press ◽  
The Tropics

Abstract This article examines the way in which the British press reported on typhoons that affected Hong Kong during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Typhoons were a significant element in the narration of the British Empire, featuring frequently in British accounts of their involvements in the Far East, where Hong Kong was its only colony. I suggest that these accounts need to be considered alongside the consolidation of the ‘tropics’ as a region in British perceptions, and in doing so, this article opens discussions of the study of tropicality to the consideration not just of climate, but also of the significance of singular weather events. This article argues that the cultural representations of typhoons in the British press were a tool of ‘othering’. In particular, there were two significant shifts around the 1880s in these reports. First, the term ‘typhoon’ became tied to these types of storms that affected Hong Kong. Second, the stories that were told about typhoon events emphasized British heroism and colonial management. Both these shifts in reporting stripped away the weather wisdom that British sailors had earlier identified in the local population.

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