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Authors: Patrick H. Hase
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Land was always at the centre of life in Hong Kong’s rural New Territories: it sustained livelihoods and lineages and, for some, was a route to power. Village
Custom, Land and Livelihood in Rural South China
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Land was always at the centre of life in Hong Kong's rural New Territories: it sustained livlihoods and lineages and, for some was a route to power. Villagers m
Colonial Administration and Land Reform in East Asia
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-07-14 - Publisher: Routledge

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This book argues that as colonialism brought the concept of individual, as opposed to collective, land ownership to indigenous society, along with Western surve
War and Revolution in South China
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In War and Revolution in South China, Edward Rhoads recounts his childhood and early teenage years during the Sino-Japanese War and the early postwar years. Rho
Settlement, Life, and Politics—Understanding the Traditional New Territories
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“Without a clear idea of the history of the New Territories, the history of Hong Kong as a whole would be impossible to bring to any sort of satisfactory comp