HIS385H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Sassoon Family, Cecil Clementi, Hong Kong
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-created a trade network, and expanded into financial services. Storage facilities: hk & kowloon wharf co. 1886. Warehouses: to store the goods that you bought from china (wait for the wind storm) Bank were also provide insurance, services for people to transfer money. Hk and entrepot of people (the movement of people in and out of hk) -attracted more people flow into hk, for economic opportunities, educationetc. Sassoon family (mid-19th cent. ) opium trade, china trade. China light and power, 1890: peninsula hotel, 1928. Trade networks hk+chinese overseas communities supplies for chinatowns. Hk is a base linked between the west to asia. Hk was a free society, different from traditional chinese environment. Diocesan girls school (1860) education/ schools: st. paul, st. joseph. James legge: confucian classics, anglo-chinese college (1818 in malacca, 1843 in hk) Wang tao(1828-1897), confucian scholar in hong kong, 1862-84. Medical college for chinese, 1887 faculty of medicine, hong kong university, 1911.
