[PDF.71fj] The Hong Kong Region, 1850-1911: Institutions and Leadership in Town and Countryside (Echoes: Classics of Hong Kong Culture and History)

First published in 1977, The Hong Kong Region is a historical reconstruction of long-settled vil­lage and township society in Hong Kong's New Territories between 1850 and 1911. The book's central argument is that the gentry and bureau­cracy played almost no role in these commu­nities, which were run by local peasants and shopkeepers who had to deal virtually unaided with routine administration and with every form of disaster, natural or m...

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