Tak-Wing Ngo is Lecturer in Chinese Politics at Leiden University, and currently Fellow of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences at the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.

• 1 Colonialism in Hong Kong revisited 2 Chinese collaboration in the making of British Hong Kong 3 Comprador politics and middleman capitalism 4 The criminal trial under early colonial rule 5 State building and rural stability 6 Social movements and public discourse on politics 7 Industrial history and the artifice of laissez-faire colonialism 8 State–business relations and industrial restructuring 9 Flexible manufacturing in a colonial economy

Tak-Wing Ngo is Lecturer in Chinese Politics at Leiden University, and currently Fellow of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences at the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.

• 1 Colonialism in Hong Kong revisited 2 Chinese collaboration in the making of British Hong Kong 3 Comprador politics and middleman capitalism 4 The criminal trial under early colonial rule 5 State building and rural stability 6 Social movements and public discourse on politics 7 Industrial history and the artifice of laissez-faire colonialism 8 State–business relations and industrial restructuring 9 Flexible manufacturing in a colonial economy