Chapter 39 "The Early Development of Hong Kong"

"The Early Development of Hong Kong" "The Early Development of Hong Kong" (from 1842 to 1912), a color book The booklet was compiled by Hong Kong Asia Fuel Company to commemorate their fiftieth anniversary of operation (1913) A picture album of Hong Kong history, with twelve pictures printed in color, from 1842 to Seventy years in 1912, the year before the company was established in Hong Kong. The drawing of the pictures adopts a comprehensive composition method, that is, the important figures and important figures in Hong Kong at a similar time To build, divide it into several independent small parts and draw them on the same picture, so as to synthesize a picture, which is to use color

Color printing, plus a page with simple instructions in Chinese and English. These twelve maps outline the face of Hong Kong's development in the first seventy years. For example, the term of office of the first Governor-General Pottinger was from 1842 to 1844. This picture shows the construction and development of Hong Kong in the past three years.The term of the second governor, Davis, was eighteen From 1944 to 1848, what I painted was the situation during these five years.The last painting is a From 1907 to 1912, this was the term of Governor Luard.It was just before the First World War

At night, Hong Kong's commercial economy is very prosperous, and cars have been imported from Europe.This painting depicts Hong Kong The new campus of the University, as well as the General Post Office at the intersection of Pedder Street, are important landmarks in Hong Kong built in this year. building. The twelve pictures are not badly drawn. Although there are a lot of beautification and exaggeration, they can make a person more or less happy. General readers can get a little impression of the early appearance of Hong Kong.It's just that the text is too brief, and it is in both Chinese and English

When you get up and take a closer look, you can find that there are several contradictions, which are obviously negligence in compilation and printing. "A Brief Biography of Hong Kong Characters in the Early Years" A Brief Biography of Hong Kong Characters in the Early Years, written by GB Endacott: "A Biographical Sketch-Book of Early Hong Kong"). Ande Ke once taught at the University of Hong Kong and edited several historical and early historical materials of Hong Kong. Published by University of Science and Oxford University Press.But the publisher of this book is published by Oriental University in Singapore.

Department Co., Ltd., published in 1962, typeset in Japan. For those who pay attention to the early history of Hong Kong's colonial development, this book is a good reference book. Book.The biographical data of the characters described in the book are scattered in various records, only a few Individuals have their own biographies, and now the author has put their biographical information, especially the part about Hong Kong, Collected in one place, wrote a brief biography for each of them, which is very useful for reference. The so-called "early years of Hong Kong", the author stated in the preface that the era he limited was the British occupation of Hong Kong.

The first twenty-five years since the island, that is, from 1841 to 1865.In the past twenty-five years, Hong Kong The island was occupied by the military after the Treaty of Nanking of the Opium War and officially became a British colony from the very beginning Elliot, the ruler of the Ling, until Robinson.The last date of the latter is 1865, which is what the author marks in this book. the last year of the given age. The biography of the characters contained in this book is divided into three parts.The first part is several summaries of this period Governor, including Yilu, to Robinson, a total of six people.The second part is the early years of the Hong Kong government

Officials, including individual brief biographies of ten officials, and an "Other Officials". Among the Hong Kong government officials in this part of the early years, Johnston was included. He was qualified to be a As the governor, but has never been able to do so.There is also William Jian, who was one of the influential figures in Hong Kong in his early years. one.In addition, because of corruption and collusion with pirates, Gao Dewei, who caused a lot of trouble in the city at that time, and Gao Dewei who was purged Ji Shili, whom the court hated. The brief biography of the third part is "Several Hong Kong Characters".None of these people are government officials, so

Not included in Part II.The characters included in this part include the lawyer Billy Gels, the journalist Turon, Lai Ji who translated Chinese "Four Books", painter Qin Nali and others. This part also includes several foreigners outside the UK who were active in Hong Kong in the early years, as well as several The deeds of the boss of a big business firm.There are also two appendices and several illustrations.Illustrations are of several important early years Portraits of people.Ande Ke's "Brief Biography of Hong Kong Characters in the Early Years", there is no Chinese in it.

The author explained this issue in the preface, saying that during the first twenty-five years in Hong Kong, China The Chinese did not make any important contributions, and because it is not easy to collect materials, the scope of the narrative is dominated by Europeans. limit.Persevering, he said that in the later history of the colony, the status and contribution of the Chinese residents began to gradually became important.Actually, this explanation is superfluous.In an edition focused on gunboat policy and the opium trade In the early activities of this colony, if there was a Chinese person, the British would look down upon him in particular.

What kind of character will this Chinese person be?