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Shuk-Wah Poon

Power and Politics at the Colonial Seaside

Leisure in British Hong Kong. Sprachen: Englisch. 23,4 cm / 15,6 cm / 1,0 cm ( B/H/T )
EAN 9780367648077

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136 Seiten
September 2022
Taylor & Francis

Poon analyzes the ways in which British colonists and Chinese leaders, backed by the rhetoric of public health and nationalism respectively, transformed the Hong Kong seaside into a leisure space. This book will be of great interest to historians with an interest in leisure and in Empire and Colonialism.

Shuk-Wah Poon is Associate Professor of History at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

1. Introduction 2. Politics of Recreation: Colonial Governance and the Bathing Beaches, 1842-1930s 3. Nationalism and Collaboration: Chinese Sports Associations and Sea Bathing in Hong Kong 4. Cross Harbour Swim: Competition and Integration 5. Liberty and Morality of the Body on the Beach 6. Seaside Tourism: Class, Race, and Spatial Reconfigurations of Repulse Bay, 1920-1982 7. Epilogue: From the Seaside to the Swimming Pool