Building Colonial Hong Kong

Name: Building Colonial Hong Kong
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Building Colonial Hong KongSpeculative Development and Segregation in the City\nAuthor(s): Cecilia L. Chu\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138344655, 978-1138344655\nSynopsis\nIn the 1880s, Hong Kong was a booming colonial entrept, with many European, especially British, residents living in palatial mansions in the Mid-Levels and at the Peak. But it was also a ruthless migrant city where Chinese workers shared bedspaces in the crowded tenements of Taipingshan. Despite persistent inequality, Hong Kong never ceased to attract different classes of sojourners and immigrants, who strived to advance their social standing by accumulating wealth, especially through land and property speculation.\n\nIn this engaging and extensively illustrated book, Cecilia L. Chu retells the Hong Kong story by tracing the emergence of its speculative landscape from the late nineteenth to the early decades of the twentieth century. Throug.