Table of Contents

Historical Setting: The Making of an Entrepot; A Frontier Settlement: The Chinese Community Under Alien Rule, 1840s-1860s; The Chinese Community in a Colonial Situation, the 1870s-1900s; Coolies in the British Colony; Popular Insurrection in 1884 During the Sino-French War; Coolie Unrest and Elitist Nationalism, 1887-1900; The Anti-American Boycott, 1905-6; The Anti-Japanese Boycott and Riot in 1908; Hong Kong in the Chinese Revolution, 1911-12; The Boycott of the Hong Kong Tramway, 1912-13.

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Based on extensive documentation in both Chinese and English, this book delineates the gradual yet significant social and political changes that transformed colonial Hong Kong during a crucial stage of Sino-Western interaction and the global expansion of capticalism-imperialism... A welcome contribution. -- William T. Rowe, Johns Hopkins University

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Based on extensive documentation in both Chinese and English, this book delineates the gradual yet significant social and political changes that transformed colonial Hong Kong during a crucial stage of Sino-Western interaction and the global expansion of capticalism-imperialism. . . . A welcome contribution.