TY  - GEN
N2  - 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 Chinas 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, governmentbusiness relations, and urban governance.
DO  - 10.1007/978-981-19-1396-9
DO  - doi
AB  - 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 Chinas 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, governmentbusiness relations, and urban governance.
T1  - Toilet as business for the hygiene of the Chinese community in colonial Hong Kong /
AU  - Chong, Yuk-sik,
CN  - RA607
ID  - 1445875
KW  - Public toilets
KW  - Business and politics
KW  - Municipal government
KW  - Toilettes publiques
KW  - Affaires et politique
KW  - Administration municipale
SN  - 9789811913969
SN  - 981191396X
TI  - Toilet as business for the hygiene of the Chinese community in colonial Hong Kong /
LK  - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-981-19-1396-9
UR  - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-981-19-1396-9
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