The Hong Kong Region 1850-1911: Institutions and Leadership in Town and Countryside

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The Hong Kong Region 1850–1911 Echoes: Classics of Hong Kong Culture and History Series General Editor: Robert Nield The life of Hong Kong and its region has been explored in a vast number of books. They include ground-breaking scholarly studies of great standing, and literary works that shed light on people, places and events. Many of these books unfortunately are no longer available to the general reader. The aim of the Echoes series is once more to make available the best of those books that would otherwise be lost. The series will embrace not only history, but also memoirs, fiction, politics, natural history and other subjects.The focal point will be Hong Kong, but the series will extend to places connected with the city or sharing some of its experiences. In this way we hope to bring a growing number of classic publications to a new and wider readership. Other titles in the Echoes series: Anglo-China: Chinese People and British Rule in Hong Kong, 1841–1880 Christopher Munn A Biographical Sketch-Book of Early Hong Kong G. B. Endacott with new introduction by John M. Carroll Chinese Christians: Elites, Middlemen, and the Church in Hong Kong Carl T. Smith with new introduction by Christopher Munn City of Broken Promises Austin Coates Edge of Empires: Chinese Elites and British Colonials in Hong Kong John M. Carroll Macao and the British, 1637–1842: Prelude to Hong Kong Austin Coates A Macao Narrative Austin Coates Power and Charity:A Chinese Merchant Elite in Colonial Hong Kong (with a new preface) Elizabeth Sinn The Road Austin Coates The Taking of Hong Kong: Charles and Clara Elliot in ChinaWaters Susanna Hoe and Derek Roebuck Thistle and Bamboo:The Life and Times of Sir James Stewart Lockhart Shiona Airlie Via Ports: From Hong Kong to Hong Kong Alexander Grantham The Hong Kong Region 1850–1911 Institutions and Leadership inTown and Countryside with a new introduction James Hayes Hong Kong University Press 14/F Hing Wai Centre 7 Tin Wan Praya Road Aberdeen Hong Kong www.hkupress.org© Hong Kong University Press 2012 ISBN 978-988-8139-11-8 Originally published in hardback by Archon Books,The Shoe String Press Inc, and Wm Dawson & Sons Ltd in 1977. This paperback edition first published by Hong Kong University Press in 2012. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording, or any information storage or retrieval system, without prior permission in writing from the publisher. British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Printed and bound by LiangYu Printing Factory Ltd., Hong Kong, China For Maurice Freedman Aerial view of the northeast part of Tai 0 Market, Lantau island, Hong Kong. At the top of the picture at the foot of the feng shui hillock next to the sea is the Hau Wong temple with salt fields opposite. At bottom right is part of Tai 0 Creek with anchored craft and houseboats. At bottom left is that section of the village which contains the Kwan Tai-Tin Hau temple and the former Chinese military office (yamen). Courtesy of the Hong Kong Government. ...