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Auteur(s) : Fung, Chi Ming
Titre(s) : Reluctant heroes [Texte imprimé] : rickshaw pullers in Hong Kong and Canton, 1874-1954 / Chi Ming Fung
Publication : Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, copyright 2005
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (xx, 216 pages) : illustrations, map ; 23 cm
Collection : Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong studies series
Lien à la collection : Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong studies series
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references p. 185-200 and index
"Reluctant Heroes is a study of rickshaw pullers in Hong Kong and Canton. The author
reconstructs the daily lives and social environments of rickshaw pullers, the majority
of whom were emigrants who differed in the loyalties of dialect, place of origin and
kinship. Low skilled yet partially self-employed, rickshaw pullers relied on entrepreneurial
flair, in addition to physical stamina, to tout for fares, thus bridging the culture
of petty traders and physical laborers. In the volatile urban environment, they were
subjected not just to patron-client problems, but also the directives and regulations
of the state, and interventions of the police, and the British colonial and Chinese
authorities." "Set against the backdrop of two contrasting yet interrelated cities
in South China, "Reluctant Heroes" brings a richer understanding of urban living through
a comparative study of the historic pattern of adaptation in the urban workplace,
the powers of the state, and the repertoire of mass activism."--BOOK JACKET
Sujet(s) : Conducteurs de pousse-pousse -- Hong Kong (Chine) -- 1800-....
Conducteurs de pousse-pousse -- Canton (Chine) -- 1800-....
Indice(s) Dewey :
388.341 (23e éd.) = Véhicules terrestres non motorisés
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9622097340. - ISBN 9789622097346
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb46761219z
Notice n° :
FRBNF46761219
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : pt. I.: Across the colonial matrix. ; A city of Sojourners and transients ; The
urban workplace and street politics ; British rule and Chinese Valiancy, up to 1926
; pt. II.: Republican canton, 1911-38. ; Evolution of a new civic paradigm ; Partisan
politics and the 1927 insurrection ; Reforms on the municipal agenda in the 1930s
; pt. III.: Within a fast-changing context. ; Growing passion for change, up to 1941
; Surviving in the Pacific war, 1937-45 ; Rise to the postwar zenith of activism
; Establishing a new agenda, up to the 1950s.
