May Days in Hong Kong: Riot and Emergency in 1967 - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9622090826 ISBN 13: 9789622090828

Verlag: Hong Kong University Press, 2009

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In this study of the anti-colonial riots which erupted in Hong Kong in May 1967, the authors of May Days in Hong Kong shed new light on their causes, their impact on future government policy and on Sino-British relations, and their legacy for Hong Kong society and governance, and the people of the territory.

This is the first sustained exploration of the anti-colonial campaign that was inspired by the Cultural Revolution in China, recent events in Macao, and fuelled by inequalities in Hong Kong society. The riots presented a sustained challenge to British authority. As leftist-led demonstrations evolved into a terrorist bombing campaign, the British security response was also markedly strengthened. Using recently opened archival records, the authors explore the course of the events, their international and imperial contexts, and their connection to the upheaval in China, and Britain's own changing world role. The events of 1967 are also grounded in the wider sweep of Hong Kong's history.

The second part of the book presents testimonies from Hong Kong residents, participants in different ways in the unfolding events, which speak to the salience of 1967 in Hong Kong's popular memory. There has been an awkward silence about this episode for almost forty years, and this book begins to normalize discussion about it, and its place in Hong Kong, Chinese and British imperial history.

The readership will include scholars and students studying Hong Kong, Chinese and British imperial history and politics, as well as a popular readership interested in Hong Kong history, society and politics.

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Robert Bickers is a professor of history in the School of Humanities, University of Bristol. A scholar of Sino-British relations, the history of Shanghai and of the British presence in China, his books include Empire Made Me An Englishman Adrift in Shanghai. Ray Yep is an associate professor in the Department of Public and Social Administration, City University of Hong Kong. He is the author of Manager Empowerment in China Political Implications of Rural Industrialization in the Reform Era.

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<div>Hong Kong History / Colonial History / Colonial Policing</div>

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Hong Kong University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 9622090826
• ISBN 13: 9789622090828
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 232
• Herausgeber: Bickers Robert, Yep Ray
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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