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Author Fung, Chi Ming.

Title Reluctant heroes : rickshaw pullers in Hong Kong and Canton, 1874-1954 / Chi Ming Fung.

Publication Info. Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press ; [London] : [Eurospan, distributor], [2005]
©2005

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 216 pages) : illustrations, map.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong studies series
Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong studies series.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Illustrations; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; Editorial Conventions; Introduction; Part One -- Across the Colonial Matrix; 1.A City of Sojourners and Transients; 2. The Urban Workplace and Street Politics; 3. British Rule and Chinese Valiancy, up to 1926; Part Two -- Republical Canton 1911-38; 4. Evolution of a New Civic Paradigm; 5. Partisan Politics and the 1927 Insurrection; 6. Reforms on the Municipal Agenda in the 1930s; Part Three -- Within A Fast -- Changing Context; 7. Growing Passion for Change, up to 1941; 8. Surviving in the Pacific War, 1937-45.
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Subject Rickshaw men -- China -- Hong Kong -- Social conditions.
Rickshaw men.
China -- Hong Kong.
Social conditions.
Rickshaw men -- China -- Guangzhou -- Social conditions.
China -- Guangzhou.
Transportation -- China -- Hong Kong -- History -- 20th century.
Transportation.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Transportation -- China -- Guangzhou -- History -- 20th century.
Transportation -- China -- Hong Kong -- History -- 19th century.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Transportation -- China -- Guangzhou -- History -- 19th century.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland.
In: HKU Press digital editions.
Other Form: Print version: Fung, Chi Ming. Reluctant heroes. Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press ; [London : Eurospan, distributor], ©2005 9789622097346 (DLC) 2008555488 (OCoLC)62178514
ISBN 9789882202658 (electronic book)
9882202659 (electronic book)
9622097340 (cased)
9789622097346 (cased)