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• Title:Edge of empires : Chinese elites and British colonials in Hong Kong / John M. Carroll.
  
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• Variant Title:Chinese elites and British colonials in Hong Kong
  
• Author/Creator:Carroll, John M. (John Mark), 1961-
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:EBSCOhost.
  
• Published/Created:Cambridge, Mass. ; London, Eng. : Harvard University Press, 2005.
  

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  • Call Number: DS796.H757
    
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• Library of Congress Subjects:Hong Kong (China)--History.
  China--History--1861-1912.
  China--History--Republic, 1912-1949.
  
• Description:1 online resource ; cm.
  
• Summary:"John Carroll argues that in the century after the Opium War, Hong Kong's colonial nature helped create a local Chinese business elite. By the end of the nineteenth century, the colonial government saw Chinese businessmen as allies in establishing Hong Kong as a commercial center. The idea of a commercially vibrant China united them. Chinese and British leaders cooperated on issues of mutual concern, such as the expansion of capitalism and political and economic directions for an ailing China."
  "These Chinese also found opportunities in the colonial system to develop business and commerce. In doing so, they used Hong Kong's strategic position to underscore their own identity as a distinctive group unlike their mainland counterparts. Nationalism took on a specifically Hong Kong character." "In Edge of Empires, Carroll situates Hong Kong squarely within the framework of both Chinese and British colonial history, while exploring larger questions about the meaning and implications of colonialism in modern history."--Jacket.
  
• Reproduction note:Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-252) and index.
  Description based on print version record.
  
• ISBN:9780674029231 (electronic bk.)
  0674029232 (electronic bk.)
  0674017013
  9780674017016
  
• Contents:Colonialism and collaboration : Chinese subjects and the making of British Hong Kong
  A better class of Chinese : building the emporium of the east
  Strategic balance : status and respect in the colonial context
  A place of their own : clubs and associations
  Nationalism and identity : the case of Ho Kai
  Preserving Hong Kong : the strike-boycott of 1925-1926
  Transforming the barren island : the 1941 centenary.