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Community and Social Unrest in the British Colony, 1842-1913

JUNG-FANG TSAI

Columbia University Press New York

Columbia University Press
New York Chichester, West Sussex
Copyright c 1993 Columbia University Press All rights reserved
Maps: Hong Kong and the New Territories 1914: adaptation from Directory and Chronicle of China, Japan, Corea, Indo-China, Straits Settlements, Malay States, Siam, Netherlands, India, Borneo, The Philippines, etc., For the Year 1914, Hong Kong: The Hongkong Daily Press Office, 1914.
City of Victoria, Hong Kong, 1882 (A, B, and C): adaptation from Mr. Chadwick's Reports on the Sanitary Condition of Hong Kong, London: Colonial Office, 1882.
City of Victoria, Hong Kong, 1913 (A, B, and C): adaptation from Directory and Chronicle of China, Japan, Corea, Indo-China, Straits Settlements, Malay States, Siam, Netherlands, India, Borneo, The Philippines, etc.. For the Year 1914, Hong Kong: The Hongkong Daily Press Office, 1914.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Tsai, Jung-fang, 1936-
Hong Kong in Chinese history : community and social unrest in the British Colony, 1842-1913 / Jung-fang Tsai, p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-231-07932-X 1. Hong Kong�XHistory. 2. Hong Kong�XSocial conditions.
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DS796.H757T77 1993
951.25�Xdc20 92-36866
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To my mother, Ch'ua Ng Luan (Ts'ai Huang Luan),
and in memory of my grandmother, Ch'ua Si K'iugn (1880-1966),
and my father, Ch'ua K'im (Ts'ai Chin, 1906-1963).

Contents

A Note on Romanization ix Acknowledgments xi Maps xv
Introduction 1
ONE Historical Setting: The Making of an Entrepot 17
TWO A Frontier Settlement: The Chinese Community 36
Under Alien Rule, 1840s-1860s
THREE The Chinese Community in a Colonial Situation, 65
the 1870s-1900s
FOUR Coolies in the British Colony 103
FIVE Popular Insurrection in 1884 During the 124
Sino-French War