HIST 3775 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Tung Wah Hospital, Vox Populi, Overseas Chinese
10 Feb 2016
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Reading: leo goodstadt, uneasy partners, chapter 1: sinn, chinese patriarchy. Hong kong, china, british empire & chinese diaspora. Imperial control over the colonies: royal instructions, letters paten to hk gov, appoint governors, senior officials, executive and legislative. Empire over which the sun never sets councillors, etc: power to disallow legislation, requirement for colonial gov to balance its annual budget. Colonial secretary young men with potential given lower. Desk officer in charge of individual colonies. Governor, senior officials, executive and legislative councils. Civil service (europeans in senior & middle ranks; subordinate: in colony locals) Expatriate: someone who is living away from their ancestral country. Military; merchants; missionaries: both very then; limited capacity for control; very limited understanding; little vox populi (popular voice) Diaspora: scattering of people (jewish history term) Emigration as a way to diversify family income: gold rush: Labour recruitment: contract labour: existence of hk facilitated news and travel, british empire: Canada (cp rail, 1881-85: spanish empire, s america:
