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Author Fung, Chi Ming.

Title Reluctant heroes : rickshaw pullers in Hong Kong and Canton, 1874-1954 / Chi Ming Fung
Published Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press ; [London] : [Eurospan, distributor], ©2005

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 216 pages) : illustrations, map
Series Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong studies series
Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong studies series.
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
Summary Reluctant Heroes is a fascinating study of rickshaw pullers in Hong Kong and Canton
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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In HKU Press digital editions
Subject Rickshaw men -- China -- Hong Kong -- Social conditions
Rickshaw men -- China -- Guangzhou -- Social conditions
Transportation -- China -- Hong Kong -- History -- 20th century
Transportation -- China -- Guangzhou -- History -- 20th century
Transportation -- China -- Hong Kong -- History -- 19th century
Transportation -- China -- Guangzhou -- History -- 19th century
TRANSPORTATION -- Automotive -- Pictorial.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economic History.
Transportation
China -- Guangzhou
China -- Hong Kong
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland.
LC no. 2008555488
ISBN 9789882202658
9882202659