Edge of Empires: Chinese Elites and British Colonials in Hong Kong

by John Mark Carroll

Book Overview

In an engaging, revisionist study, John M. Carroll argues that in the century after the Opium War, Hong Kong's colonial nature helped create a local Chinese business elite.

By the end of the nineteenth century, the colonial government saw Chinese businessmen as allies in establishing Hong Kong as a commercial center. The idea of a commercially vibrant China united them. Chinese and British leaders cooperated on issues of mutual concern,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674017013
• ISBN13: 9780674017016
• Release Date: April 2005
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 274 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.6" x 9.6"