Painting in western media in early twentieth century Hong Kong

1996 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sai-chong, Jack Lee
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Hong Kong ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Western Media

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.

Confronting the Politics of Nonconforming Sexualities in Africa

2013 ◽  
Vol 56 (2) ◽  
pp. 31-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sylvia Tamale
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
North America ◽  
Civil Liberties ◽  
African History ◽  
African Politics ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Twentieth Century Europe ◽  
Western Media

Abstract:The connections between democracy and sexuality—that is, between civil liberties and the protection of nonconforming sexualities—are rarely discussed in Africa. On the contrary, nonconforming sexualities have been instrumentalized to entrench dictatorships and to weaken democracy. As was the case in early twentieth-century Europe and North America, homophobia has become a political tool used by conservative politicians to promote self-serving agendas. Heterosexuality is also idealized by an acute ahistoricization of African politics by the Western media and civil society. The problem is also compounded by the distortion of African history promulgated by the dictatorial leadership on the continent.

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.

Geographical Dimension of Colonial Justice: Using GIS in Research on Law and History

2016 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 1027-1045 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Ng ◽  
T. Edwin Chow ◽  
David W.S. Wong
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Hong Kong ◽  
Social History ◽  
Web Sites ◽  
Legal History ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Geographic Information ◽  
Digital Tool ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
History Of

This article reviews and reflects on the use of the geographic information system (GIS) as a tool, or geographic information science (GIScience) as a research methodology, and associated techniques of analysis in an empirical study-in-progress on the law and history of early twentieth century British Hong Kong. The article begins by introducing the study and its objectives, as well as the rationale for adopting GIS/GIScience as one of its research methodologies. It then highlights the preliminary findings of the current project and compares them with those of earlier research on the legal history of early twentieth century Beijing using GIS. The article also discusses the difficulties involved in adopting such a digital tool and methodology in historical research. It concludes by reflecting on what GIS can help scholars understand about the social history of law in Hong Kong, beyond what is already known, and how specialists in law, history, and geography can collaborate in a digital law and history project involving the use of GIS. This article also gives an overview of the use of GIS in conducting empirical research in the humanities (including but not limited to history and legal history research) and points to digital sources and web sites useful to researchers who may need tools and data to launch a GIS study in law and history.

Carvalho Yeo and the 1928 Hong Kong Treasury Swindle

Meeting Place ◽  
2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Munn
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Hong Kong ◽  
Supreme Court ◽  
Government Officials ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
The Supreme Court ◽  
Asian Cities ◽  
The Government ◽  
Individual Choices

In 1928 Carvalho Yeo was accused of stealing more than a quarter of a million dollars from the Government Treasury through an elaborate cheque fraud. Yeo was traced to Shanghai and brought back to Hong Kong, where, after a sensational trial before the Supreme Court, he was convicted and sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment. His actions exposed chaotic management in the Treasury and brought into question the competence of senior government officials. Carvalho Yeo was a man of ‘mysterious antecedents and doubtful nationality’ – a criminal wanted by police in other Asian cities before he came to Hong Kong. Possibly of ‘Sino-Siamese’ origins, he presented himself by turns as a Chinese, a Portuguese, and a British subject, and deployed various aliases, fictional partners, and fake companies to carry out his plans. His story fascinated the Hong Kong public as much as it embarrassed the authorities. The chapter asks what Yeo’s manipulation of identities tells us about relations between the communities in early twentieth-century Hong Kong and suggests that, while racial divides were real and often rigid, individual choices sometimes challenged this rigidity, even – as in Carvalho Yeo’s case – to the point of making a farce out of the divides.

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