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        "series_title": "RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊",
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        "page_number": 144,
        "title": "RAS-1972",
        "content_text": "138\n\nLINDA F. SULLIVAN\n\nAnother house in Kiangsu13 is almost a square and is of unusual appearance, perhaps because of its shape and especially the height of its southern wall. Unlike the last house which is built of earth walls and has a thatched roof, this house is made of brick. With the added strength of brick walls, the outer appearance becomes very much like a fortress. As one approaches, there is a shadow wall outside the main door which faces south. The southern end of the house is a very high wall which rises above the other walls of the house and shields the courtyard from the extremely hot and intense rays of the summer sun. After passing through the front door one enters the small courtyard which leads to a living space with two kitchens on either side which could be shared by two families. The two kitchens might also indicate that several generations live in the one house, in which case each generation would eat at different times and prepare their own food. The bedrooms are also located on either side of the living room. At the far side of the living room there is a small door which leads to the backyard where there is a vegetable garden. From a photograph, the house is nestled in the arms of a small hill, adding strength and fortune to the family.\n\nThe Ku family house in Shanghai14 is a free-standing three-sided courtyard house. The main part of the house has five bays. From the courtyard one enters a hall which combines as the living room and ancestral hall. On both sides of the hall there are clusters of three bedrooms which are entered through intermediary rooms. Perhaps these rooms are private spaces for each family or generation of a family to eat or gather for talk. From these private rooms one has access to the kitchens. The house is made of wood and is reinforced by bamboo poles. The main hall is high with an added upturned ridge at the apex of the roof. It appears that the kitchens also have this same type of roof while the corner buildings have a very plain and simple roof. The outer appearance is very light and simple and is a common sight in the southeastern parts of Kiangsu.\n\nMoving south from Kiangsu to Chekiang one leaves the Yangtze valley of waterways and rice paddies and goes into the mountainous, rugged land of the Chekiang mountains. Here the amount of arable land is scarce, and thus when the Chinese peasant builds his home he wants to use as little space as possible. Despite this constraint, there remains a strong desire to maintain a degree of privacy and to bring the world of nature within the walls of his home.",
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        "series_title": "RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊",
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        "document_key": "RAS-1973",
        "page_number": 61,
        "title": "RAS-1973",
        "content_text": "APPENDIX\n\nEARLY STEAMSHIPS CONNECTED WITH CHINA\n\n  \n    Vessel\n    Material\n    Tons\n    Builder\n    Dimensions\n    Engines and Builder\n    Remarks\n  \n  \n    Diana\n    1823 Wood\n    89\n    Kyd & Co., Kidderpore, India.\n    100'0\" × 16'8” × ?\n    2 of 25 h.p., Paddle. Henry Maudslay, London,\n    Materials sent first to Canton, then to India: Diana never operated in China.\n  \n  \n    Corsair\n    1827 Wood\n    186 net\n    J. Wood & Co., Port Glasgow, Scotland.\n    136'0\" × 18'0” × 11'9\"\n    \n    Although built in 1827 did not arrive in China until 1846.\n  \n  \n    Forbes\n    1829 Wood\n    162\n    Howra Dock Co., Calcutta.\n    126'10\" × 22'6\" × ?\n    2 of 60 h.p., Paddle, Boulton & Watt, Birmingham.\n    Towed barque Jamesina to Lintin in 1830, and was first steamship to be seen in China.\n  \n  \n    Jardine\n    1835 Wood\n    59\n    A. Hall & Co., Aberdeen, Scotland.\n    82'0\" × 17'0” × 9'6\"\n    2 of 24 h.p., Paddle, J. Duffus & Co.\n    After first arrival in China never operated in Chinese waters.\n  \n  \n    Ann\n    1839 Wood\n    239 gross\n    T. Isemonger, Littlehampton, Sussex, England,\n    117'0\" × 19'7” × 13'3\"\n    Paddle, Conley & Co., South Shields.\n    Built as a schooner, lengthened and fitted with engines in 1846.\n  \n\nEARLY STEAMSHIPS IN CHINA\n\n55",
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        "id": 214810,
        "series_id": 26,
        "series_slug": "histsyn-rashkb-journal-engine",
        "series_title": "RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊",
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        "document_key": "RAS-1999",
        "page_number": 225,
        "title": "RAS-1999",
        "content_text": ".... \n\n190 \n\nby unnatural ones, namely nations and states', an argument against the discourse of the authentic/inauthentic which raises some of the problems of real/virtual communities dealt with here in Conclusion. \n\n6 Baudelaire (1863) in Harvey (1989). \n\n7 \n\n8 \n\nAs Lowenthal (1985) noted of the whole industrial era, \"The great changes of the time...made nostalgia pervasive. By the turn of the century all Britain seemed bent on nostalgic quest'. \n\nCf. Evans and Tam (1997) on the expatriate interest in 'tradition' in Hong Kong. \n\nFor a detailed assessment of the works of some of these local scholars, see Law (1998). \n\nIt is not only the colonialist 'who becomes defender of the native style', as Fanon had it, but to some extent the colonial subject and the post-colonial. For a very general overview of Chinese globalisation, see Ong (1999). \n\nAbbas (1997) confuses the discussion of Hong Kong as a place with its people, and talks of the 'cult of the ephemeral' as if modernity had only happened in Hong Kong. This is poetry (and somewhat hysterical poetry), not analysis. It is easy to say that 'the difficulty with locality in Hong Kong is locating it', or to emphasise as Siu (1999; cf.1996) does that 'the Hong Kong identity is attached to a territory without clear boundaries', or to emphasise as Wong Siu-Lun (1999) does the skilled manipulation of multiple identities by migrants from the south China coast. But Wong emphasises that these identities are also ‘effective shields to deflect state domination', while Siu (1999) speaks of ‘a distinct Hong Kong ethos' which is unique and has emerged from a particular history; 'Hong Kong was not a barren rock when the British came'. \n\n12 Chan (1994) starts from an outmoded notion of culture which he thinks is anthropological'. He then finds it difficult to understand how Hong Kong can have contradictory or diverse cultural values. \n\n13. The notion of 'Chinese' here, though, would repay further examination. Is it zhongguoren which is meant (citizens of China), or tongren, the conventional term for the southern Chinese? \n\n14 Dirlik (1994) too, seeing the post-colonial as a critique of the ideology of global \n\nPage 225\n\nPage 226",
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