Toilet as business for the hygiene of the Chinese community in colonial Hong Kong / Yuk-sik Chong.
2022
RA607 .C56 2022
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Title
Toilet as business for the hygiene of the Chinese community in colonial Hong Kong / Yuk-sik Chong.
Author
Chong, Yuk-sik, author.
ISBN
9789811913969 (electronic bk.)
981191396X (electronic bk.)
9789811913952
9811913951
981191396X (electronic bk.)
9789811913952
9811913951
Published
Singapore : Springer, [2022]
Copyright
©2022
Language
English
Description
1 online resource : illustrations (chiefly color)
Item Number
10.1007/978-981-19-1396-9 doi
Call Number
RA607 .C56 2022
Dewey Decimal Classification
363.72/94095125
Summary
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.
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Table of Contents
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.
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.