The Great Difference: Hong Kong's New Territories and Its People 1898-2004

Index

Index Entries from the main text make no reference to their linked and numbered notes. Entries from the Notes section itself, e.g. 182n21, are given separate mention when they provide other information. A Addison, Keith, 79–80, 93–4 Administration of the New Territory: pre-1898, 9–12, 23–4; in early decades of British rule, 26, 43–53; changes in 1960, 74; greatly altered after 1981–1982, with amalgamation with HAD, transfer of land authority, and the elected district boards, 161–2. See also New Kowloon Administrative (local) sub-divisions of the NT before 1898, 8, Plate 4 Aerodrome at Pat Heung, 47 Affrays and mini-wars, 7, 182n21 seq. Agricultural resiting in early water schemes, and difficulties faced by resited villagers, 86–8, 89–90; at Tai Long Wan (Shek Pik) 1980s, 93–5 Agriculture and Forestry Department, or components, 73 Agricultural credit, 72, 73 Aijmer, Göran, 76–7, 155, 202n82, 247n46 Akers-Jones, Sir David, 116–7, 124, 159, 231n32, 41, 237n39, 241n32 Ancestral halls, 14, 203n86, 242n46 Architecture, vernacular rural, 14–5 Attitudes of NT people: at the outset among literati and gentry, 8, 25; about the Chinese revolution of 1911, 148; during the Japanese Occupation, 59, 66–7, 70; in the 1967 Disturbances, 151; in 1997, 157–8 Attitudes towards the colonial government and its officials: origins, 24, 191n47, 198n45; as experienced, 33, 132, 240n28 Attitudes within Government towards the NT and the NTO in the 1980s, 159, 172–3; and in the legal profession, 169, 171 B Baker, Hugh, 8, 176 Baretto, Mrs. Gloria, 56 Barnett, K. M. A., xiv, 10, 73–4, 129, 208n68, 223n89, 240n19, 241n44, Plate 20 282 Index Barrow, John, 66–7, 127–8, 215nn9–10, 223n89 Basic Law of the Hong Kong SAR, and the HYK, 157, 164, 167 Beresford, Lord Charles, 21–2 Berkowitz, Morris, 92 Births and deaths, registration of, 53 Blake, Fred, 153 Blake, Sir Henry, disapproval of Lockhart’s actions in 1899, 25–6; on cooption , 44, 153; and resumptions, 192n55 Block Crown Leases, with schedule of Crown Lessees and Survey Sheets by Demarcation Districts, 36–7 Boat people of the NT region, xiv, 179n1; but not “rehoused” during coastal reservoir development until High Island, 95 Border area, 15, 153–5 Bray, Denis, 104, 109, 131, 171, 255n92, Plate 20 Brim, John, 136–7 British Army in the NT, 130–1 British Kowloon (Old British Kowloon), 188n14 British Military Administration 1945–46, 71 Bus services in the NT, prewar, 54 C Cadet Officers and the NT, 56–7, 209n86 Cantonese (Punti), 6, 8; historic characterizations, 182n18 “Cantonization” of Hong Kong population, linguistically and through popular culture, 140, 160, 166 Carrie, W. J., 216n11 Cater, Sir Jack, 234n8, 236n37 Certificates of land ownership (chap chiu), 39, Plate 14 Chan, Selina, 174, 175–6, 191n53 Change in NT rural life: end to traditional farming, 73–6; measuring change 1898–1968, 136–8; postwar at Pui O, Lantau Island, in regard to livelihood, young persons’ attitudes, police behaviour, protective rituals, mutual assistance and relationships , etc., 132–4; at Tai Po Tau, 139; at Lo Tik Wan, Lamma Island, 135–6; in the Tsiu Keng valley, 138–9; elsewhere, 160–1; dilution of Hakka culture postwar, 140, 160; as regards women and girls, 75–7, 140; timing of change, 140; through emigration and outside employment , 75–6, 139, 142, 160– 1; in retail and marketing services, 141. See also Livelihood in the villages Cheung Chau Island, 9; its community and Kaifong committee, 45–6, 124; attack on its police station in 1912, 48–9 Cheung Sha Wan (Kowloon), confused land ownership, 30 Chinese Customary Law in land-related matters: applied throughout the Lease, 37–9; documentation, 37– 8; believed warped by the land settlement and by registration and colonial practice thereafter, 40–1; this view queried, 38–40 Chinese local government system, pre1898 , 8, 9–11 Chun, Allen, 40–1, 180n5, 223n92, 229n13, 253n70 Claims to land during the survey and demarcation of 1900–1904, 32– 3, 34–5; slowness in making claims, and reasons for this, 32–6 Index 283 Clementi, (Sir) Cecil, 36, 198n52, 201 nn70, 74 with Plate 14 Coates, Austin, 118, 191n49, 205n20; his Summary Memorandum, 1955, 200n68 Communications in the NT, primitive state in 1898, 9, 22; improvements after 1899, 47; early postwar additions, 205n24 Compensation for land, 46; in cash only, 100; by Letters of Exchange, 100; changes following...