文档介绍：SOSC 005
May 4, 2005
Mirana M. Szeto
Hong Kong Everyday Culture
A. Hong Kong – a city of protests?
1856 The Second Opium War between China and Britain began. Anti-British workers general strikes erupted 3 times in Hong Kong between November 1856 and March 1858.
1857 January, several hundred British people consumed poisoned bread by a Hong Kong Chinese bakery. No suspect was ever found. Awards were offered to those willing to assassinate British officials. Workers were on strike and shops closed in protest against the British.
Hong Kong – a city of protests?
The conditions of living for Chinese people in the British colony were appalling. The government never provided any health, housing, welfare and education.
In 1860, locals banded together to create a self-help anization to care for the poor and provide basic healthcare and social welfare - the Tung Wah Hospitals.
The ess of anization was considered threatening by the colonial government. It used the 1894 Bubonic plague in Hong Kong as an excuse to persecute anization & undercut its leading role in the local munity.
1894 The munity was outraged at the way the British colonial government handled the plague, protested en masse, causing a lot of stress in the city.
Hong Kong – a city of protests?
1905 In reaction to the series of anti-Chinese and anti-Asian racist legislations in America, Hong Kong workers boycotted US goods. Sun Yat-sen started the Hong Kong arm of the Xingzhonghui (興中會).
1908 The first anti-Japanese demonstration in Hong Kong against Japanese imperial advances in Chinese along with other European powers.
1911 The Chinese Revolution. Hong Kong people rejoiced and cut their pigtails en masse. There were also attacks on the British elite in the passion of some demonstrations. The British cracked down on the nationalist movement.
Hong Kong – a city of protests?
1917 Hong Kong people boycotted public transport.
1919 The May Fourth Movement in China & HK.
1920 The mechanic’s strike – got 20%