Edge of Empires: Chinese Elites and British Colonials in Hong Kong by John M. Carroll

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

John M. Carroll

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nonfiction history
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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 b...

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