HIS385H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Comprador, Alice Ho Miu Ling Nethersole Hospital, North South Mrt Line
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Sojourner society leaving china to work in hong kong, not a home: temporary settlement, economic motives, proximity to china, familial ties in china, no sense of belonging/loyalty. Indirect rule policy: registrar-general (1845, chinese laws/customs. Chinese systems of arbitration/mediation (they did their own thing: policing, health care (hong kong government didn"t provide universal health care until the 1970s, education. Smugglers as early leaders: pre-1841 ties -> influence + pidgin english, wealth philanthropy leadership. 1850-65: taiping rebellion in china: chinese refugees, more western firms hk -> compradors (chinese merchant working for western trading firm as buyer (agent), respectable chinese -> new leadership, chinese population significantly increased from 31,000 to 92,000. New leadership -> new community organizations: trade organization, 1860s, nam pak hong (north-south trading association, trade network: hk and pearl river delta -> treaty ports, se asia, n. america. Neighbourhood (kaifong) organizations, 1860s: merchant money, personal protection -> neighbourhood security, basis of district watch force.
