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Toilet as business for the hygiene of the Chinese community in colonial Hong Kong / Yuk-sik Chong.

9789811913969 (electronic bk.)
981191396X (electronic bk.)
9789811913952
9811913951

Singapore : Springer, [2022]

©2022

English

1 online resource : illustrations (chiefly color)

10.1007/978-981-19-1396-9 doi

RA607 .C56 2022

363.72/94095125

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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