Power and Politics at the Colonial Seaside: Leisure in British Hong Kong

by Shuk-Wah Poon

Overview

Poon analyzes the ways in which British colonists and Chinese leaders, backed by the rhetoric of public health and nationalism respectively, transformed the Hong Kong seaside into a leisure space. This book will be of great interest to historians with an interest in leisure and in Empire and Colonialism.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367648084
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	05/27/2024
Series:	Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
Pages:	148
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Shuk-Wah Poon is Associate Professor of History at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction 2. Politics of Recreation: Colonial Governance and the Bathing Beaches, 1842–1930s 3. Nationalism and Collaboration: Chinese Sports Associations and Sea Bathing in Hong Kong 4. Cross Harbour Swim: Competition and Integration 5. Liberty and Morality of the Body on the Beach 6. Seaside Tourism: Class, Race, and Spatial Reconfigurations of Repulse Bay, 1920–1982 7. Epilogue: From the Seaside to the Swimming Pool