Umfang:
1 online resource (333 pages)
ISBN:
9789888052905
Inhalt:
The study covers the whole period of the Lease, with all its crowded events and dramatic changes, as they affected the native inhabitants and their relationship with the government and, over time, the many times larger new urban population.
Inhalt:
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations and Romanization -- Introduction -- 1 - The Leased Territory in 1898 -- 2 - The Existing British Crown Colony and "the Great Difference" -- 3 - Survey, Land Court, Registration, and Customary Law -- 4 - "Give and Take" in the New Territory up to 1941 -- 5 - New Territories People and the Japanese Occupation 1941-1945 -- 6 - An End to Subsistence Farming: Opening the Way for Urban Development and Country Parks -- 7 - Village Removals for Water Schemes 1923-1974: Resitings and Compensation -- 8 - Village Removals for New Town Development 1960 Onward: Resitings and New Modes of Compensation -- 9 - The Rural Contribution to Community Building in the New Towns, and Its Background -- 10 - Village Communities in Change -- 11 - Identities: Staying Chinese during the Lease -- 12 - Convergence and Divergence: A Deteriorating Relationship -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Glossary -- Index.
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Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9789622097940
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9789622097940
Sprache:
Englisch
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=677406
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