Settlement, life, and politics : understanding the traditional new territories   

• Product Details

  Product #

  2574771B

  Author(s)

  Hase, P. H.

  City

  Hong Kong 

  Country

  China 

  Language

  English 

  ISBN

  9789629374419 

  Date of Publication

  2020 

  Publisher

  Xianggang cheng shi da xue chu ban she  

  Cover Type

  Soft cover 

  Pages

  663 

  Series

  Royal Asiatic society Hong Kong studies series 

  Subject

  History, 19th Century and Earlier

  Subject

  History, 20th-21st Centuries

  Subject

  Sociology

   

• Product Details in Original Language

  Author

  Hase, P. H.

  Publisher

  香港城市大學出版社  

• Description

  “Without a clear idea of the history of the New Territories, the history of Hong Kong as a whole would be impossible to bring to any sort of satisfactory completion. ... Elucidating the development of a village, a clan, a temple, or a market-town is also, in and of itself, real and valuable history, and abundantly justifies the time and effort spent on it.” This book is a history of village communities in the New Territories of Hong Kong, including those in the areas of Ha Tsuen, Hung Shui Kiu, and Sha Tin as well as those on the islands of Lamma, Ma Wan, and Tung Ping Chau. Elaborating on primary interviews with village elders, government documents, and public information, this book places the individual histories of each area into the context of Hong Kong’s rich past. The introduction sets up the rest of the book, outlining common themes and highlighting the dangers of using the communal memories of village communities while, at the same time, showing the valuable information doing so can bring. Each chapter provides a more detailed account of one specific area, concentrating on the settlement history, the lifestyle, and the politics of that area.