Multiracial Britishness

Global Networks in Hong Kong, 1910-45

AvVivian Kong

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

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What does it mean to be British? To answer this, Multiracial Britishness takes us to an underexplored site of Britishness - the former British colony of Hong Kong. Vivian Kong asks how colonial hierarchies, the racial and cultural diversity of the British Empire, and global ideologies complicate the meaning of being British. Using multi-lingual sources and oral history, Kong traces the experiences of multiracial residents in 1910-45 Hong Kong. Guiding us through Hong Kong's global networks, and the colony's co-existing exclusive and cosmopolitan social spaces, this book uncovers the long history of multiracial Britishness. Kong argues that Britishness existed in the colony in multiple, hyphenated forms - as a racial category, but also as privileges, a means of survival, and a form of cultural and national belonging. This book offers us an important reminder that multiracial inhabitants of the British Empire were just as active in the making of Britishness as the British state and white Britons.

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Utgivningsdatum:2025-04-10
Mått:229 x 151 x 19 mm
Vikt:428 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Modern British Histories
Antal sidor:292
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781009202985

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Born and raised in Hong Kong, Vivian Kong is Lecturer in Modern Chinese History and Founding Co-Director of the Hong Kong History Centre at the University of Bristol. She has published on diasporas, civil society, and press debates in interwar Hong Kong.

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'Multiracial Britishness is the first book-length work that examines the political, cultural, and social milieu of Britishness in Hong Kong. It is innovative, important, and original in a number of ways - in its focus on Hong Kong, in its effectiveness at centering colonial subjects in the making of empire, and in its introduction of a diverse cast of historical actors, many of whom came from spaces outside of the formal empire.' Charles V. Reed, author of Royal Tourists, Colonial Subjects, and the Making of a British World, 1860–1911

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction. Hong Kong as a site of Britishness; 1. British by law; 2. The Britishers; 3. Britishness and Chineseness in an age of nationalism; 4. The British Portuguese; 5. Multiracial civic Britishness; 6. The test of war; Epilogue: After empire, after Brexit.