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Edge of empires : Chinese elites and British colonials in Hong Kong /
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...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Mass. ; London, Eng. :
Harvard University Press,
2005.
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Full text (Wentworth users only) |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |