Toilet as Business for the Hygiene of the Chinese Community in Colonial Hong Kong
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Beschreibung
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.
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.
Focuses on the creation of a network of public toilets which was mediated by land rewards Shows that the convergence of profit and morality in toilet provision created a new form of moral geography Urban governance between the colonial government and the Chinese landowners in the context of toilet provision
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Yuk-sik Chong
Themen in »Toilet as Business for the Hygiene of the Chinese Community in Colonial Hong Kong«
Urban Modernity Asian Public Toilet Public Health and Toilet Night Soil Business Hong Kong and Sanitary Policies Colonialism and Capitalism Sanitation Infrastructure Colonial State-business Relations Moral Geographies Urban Governance and Social Order