Shuk-Wah Poon

Power and Politics at the Colonial Seaside

Leisure in British Hong Kong

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 148
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Mai 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 237g
• ISBN-13: 9780367648084
• ISBN-10: 0367648083
• Artikelnr.: 70368274

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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