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Toilet as Business for the Hygiene of the Chinese Community in Colonial Hong Kong

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Toilet as Business for the Hygiene of the Chinese Community in Colonial Hong Kong/ by Yuk-sik Chong.
Author:	Chong, Yuk-sik.
Description:	XVII, 175 p. 22 illus., 21 illus. in color.online resource. :
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Cities and towns—History. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-1396-9
ISBN:	9789811913969

Toilet as Business for the Hygiene of the Chinese Community in Colonial Hong Kong
Chong, Yuk-sik.

Toilet as Business for the Hygiene of the Chinese Community in Colonial Hong Kong[electronic resource] /by Yuk-sik Chong. - 1st ed. 2022. - XVII, 175 p. 22 illus., 21 illus. in color.online resource.

Introduction: Capitalism, Morality and the Reordering of Space -- Economic Restructuring and Colonial Collaboration -- Governing Public Health and Colonial Public Toilets -- The Economic Dimension of Governing Public Health: Marketing Public Toilets -- A Blending of Economic and Moral Logics within Public Toilets -- Concluding Remarks: A Particluar Mode of Urban Governance.

This book analyses how public toilets were provided by the government and local business in Hong Kong between the 1860s and 1930s through a process that was embedded in class and racial politics. Addressing public toilet provision from a political economy perspective, it focuses on the interplay of the cross-border night soil business between Hong Kong and China’s silk producing area; the silk market between China and Colonial powers; the Hong Kong land market between the colonial government and Chinese business; and how these factors jointly produced a network of toilets in the colony. As the book shows, the commercial viability of toilets created multiple logics and a new moral geography; further, exploring the topic can help us gain a better understanding of how urban governance functioned in colonies and how it intertwined with economic contingencies within a global economic system. The intended readership includes academics and members of the general public with an interest in colonialism, public infrastructures, public health, government–business relations, and urban governance.

ISBN: 9789811913969

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-981-19-1396-9doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

1267348
Cities and towns—History.

LC Class. No.: HT111-150

Dewey Class. No.: 900.91732

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