Space and Everyday Lives of Children in Hong Kong: The Interwar Period

by Stella Meng Wang

Overview

Deploying a spatial approach towards children’s everyday life in interwar Hong Kong, this book considers the context-specific development of five transnational movements: the garden city movement; imperial hygiene movement; nationalist sentiments; the Young Women's Christian Association; and the Girl Guide. Locating these transnational cultural movements in four layers of context, from the most immediate to the most global, including the context of Hong Kong, Republican China, the British empire, and global influences, this book shows Hong Kong as a distinctive colonial domain where the imperatives around race, gender and class produced new products of empire where the child, the garden, the school and sport turned out to be the main dynamics in play in the interwar period. 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783031444012
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date:	12/22/2023
Series:	Global Histories of Education
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	7 MB

About the Author

Stella Meng Wang is a recent PhD graduate of the Sydney School of Education and Social Work at the University of Sydney, Australia, and a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Literature and Cultural Studies at the Education University of Hong Kong. Stella’s research interests include history of hygiene, history of education, women’s history, urban history, and history of architecture and health.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction.- 2. Garden City: Urban Reform, Colonial Domesticity, and Spaces of Play in Childhood, 1921-1941.- 3. Building Healthy Schools: Architecture of Fitness in Hong Kong, 1901-1941.- 4. Treading a Different Path: Gender and the Literary Space at St. Stephen's Girls' College, 1921-1941.- 5. Lifting Girls: Chinese Women and the YWCA in Hong Kong, 1921-1941.- 6. Reimagining the Colonial Space: Femininity and the Everyday Life of Girl Guides in Hong Kong, 1921-1941.- 7. Conclusion