Anglo-China

A study of the first three decades of British rule in Hong Kong, focusing on the troubled and controversial process of establishing a British colony at Hong Kong and on the reception of British rule by people in the region.

Christopher Munn

Introduction; I: Founding a Colony; 1: 'Anglo-China': The Opium War and the British Acquisition of Hong Kong; 2: 'Her Majesty's Chinese Subjects': Government and People in Early British Hong Kong; I: Crime and Justice; 3: 'Cheap, Summary and Sharp Justice': The Early Hong Kong Magistracy; 4: 'A Mischievous Abomination': Trial by Jury in Early Colonial Hong Kong; 5: 'Giving Justice a Second Chance': Reforms to the Judicial System, 1849-1857; I: Finding an Equilibrium; 6: 'Treacherous and Reckless Barbarians': War and Civil Unrest, 1856-1858; 7: 'A Reign of Terror': Corruption, Scandal, and the Caldwell Affair, 1857-1861; 8: 'A Social Revolution': Forming a Colonial Relationship, the 1860s and Beyond; Conclusion