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格雷的五十道陰影I:調教(電影封面版)
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The Shek Kip Mei Myth: Squatters, Fires and Colonial Rule in Hong Kong, 1950-1963

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Alan Smart 
香港大學出版社
2006年1月01日
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For customers from the United States and Canada, please order the book from University of Washington Press.

For customers from Europe,please order the book from The Eurospan Group.

Alan Smart raises serious questions about the standard view that Hong Kong’s mass public housing programme was a direct and humane response by the Government to the Shek Kip Mei fire. Ratherhe argues that the Government’s response to that fire was grudging and incremental rather than a sharp and radical turning point, and that the security and stability of Hong Kong weighed as heavily, possibly more so, in the decisions than the predicament of the fire victims. His research shows that a whole sequence of major fires after Shek Kip Mei, and the political costs of the Mainland sending comfort missions to fire victims both before and after were needed to bring about the final commitment to provide mass public housing. In his critical examination of the conventional position, Professor Smart bases his case on a thorough reading of government records and provides a careful investigation into the origins of the public housing policy in Hong Kong.

This volume makes an important contrarian contribution to the postwar history of Hong Kong and is a significant addition to the study of its modern development.

Alan Smart is a Professor in the Department of Anthropology, University of Calgary, Canada. His previous book on Hong Kong’s housing was Making Room: Squatter Clearance in Hong Kong (Hong Kong: Centre of Asian Studies, 1992).

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Alan Smart 其他作品

The Shek Kip Mei Myth: Squatters, Fires and Colonial Rule in Hong Kong, 1950-1963

The Shek Kip Mei Myth: Squatters, Fires and Colonial Rule in Hong Kong, 1950-1963

Making Room: Squatter Clearance in Hong Kong

Making Room: Squatter Clearance in Hong Kong








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