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Power and Charity A Chinese Merchant Elite in Colonial Hong Kong (with a new preface)
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Through the history of a charitable institution, the Tung Wah Hospital, Elizabeth Sinn reshapes and greatly deepens our understanding of the evolving interactions between the Chinese community in H...
Through the history of a charitable institution, the Tung Wah Hospital, Elizabeth Sinn reshapes and greatly deepens our understanding of the evolving interactions between the Chinese community in Hong Kong and the colonial rulers.
Details
- Creator
- Elizabeth Sinn ; [with a new preface]
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Hong Kong [China] : Hong Kong University Press, 2003
- Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2012
- ©2003
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (345 p.)
- ISBNs
- 1282703854, 9786612703850, 9882202500, 9622096697
- OCLC
- ocn654826578
- Originally published: Hong Kong; Oxford: Oxford University, 1989.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-296) and index.
- English
- Contents; Plates; Preface to the Paperback Edition; Preface to the Original Edition; Abbreviations; Romanization; Introduction; 1 The Chinese Community before the Tung Wah Hospital; 2 The Origin of the Tung Wah Hospital; 3 Management, Organization, and Development, 1869-1894; 4 The Tung Wah Hospital Committee as the Local Elite; 5 Criticism, Confrontation, and Control; 6 Crisis: The Plague, 1894; 7 A New Crisis: Toward Integration; Epilogue; Notes; Appendices; Glossary; Bibliography; Index