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Multiracial Britishness: Global Networks in Hong Kong, 1910–45: Modern British Histories

Autor Vivian Kong
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 30 oct 2023
What does it mean to be British? To answer this, Multiracial Britishness takes us to an underexplored site of Britishness – the former British colony of Hong Kong. Vivian Kong asks how colonial hierarchies, the racial and cultural diversity of the British Empire, and global ideologies complicate the meaning of being British. Using multi-lingual sources and oral history, Kong traces the experiences of multiracial residents in 1910-45 Hong Kong. Guiding us through Hong Kong's global networks, and the colony's co-existing exclusive and cosmopolitan social spaces, this book uncovers the long history of multiracial Britishness. Kong argues that Britishness existed in the colony in multiple, hyphenated forms – as a racial category, but also as privileges, a means of survival, and a form of cultural and national belonging. This book offers us an important reminder that multiracial inhabitants of the British Empire were just as active in the making of Britishness as the British state and white Britons.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781009202947
ISBN-10: 1009202944
Pagini: 292
Dimensiuni: 238 x 160 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.56 kg
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Colecția Cambridge University Press
Seria Modern British Histories

Locul publicării:Cambridge, United Kingdom

Cuprins

Introduction. Hong Kong as a site of Britishness; 1. British by law; 2. The Britishers; 3. Britishness and Chineseness in an age of nationalism; 4. The British Portuguese; 5. Multiracial civic Britishness; 6. The test of war; Epilogue: After empire, after Brexit.

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Explores how British subjects of different 'races' collectively shaped what it means to be British today, focusing on 1910-45 Hong Kong.