The Hong Kong Region, 1850-1911

The Hong Kong Region, 1850-1911In this classic study (1977), James Hayes examines local leadership in six villages and townships in Hong Kong's rural New Territories during the late Qing. Drawing on a wealth of documentary sources and on fieldwork carried out while serving as a district officer, Hayes makes a powerful argument for the part played by ordinary men peasants and shopkeepers in running their own communities almost without interference from either the gentry or state

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