Local livelihoods and global process: complex causalities in Hong Kong's Sai Kung Peninsula

• Authors: Claudio O. Delang

Abstracts

EN

This paper looks at the changes that occurred in the rural area of the Sai Kung Peninsula in Hong Kong's New Territories from the 16th century, and uses it as a case-study to show the complex range of forces that can act on a locale. Throughout its history, land use and economic activities on the Sai Kung Peninsula have been driven to a great extent by non-local factors, including distant warfare leading to mass immigration and political decisions leading to mass emigration. However, once Hong Kong became an important outpost of Britain's colonial empire it became integrated into a global trade network and thus became sensitive to economic and technological changes taking place thousands of miles away. In the 20th century, the Sai Kung Peninsula developed in response to Hong Kong's growth as an international trade hub, finding its agricultural output overwhelmed by cheap foreign products, and its industry challenged by foreign technological advances.

Keywords

EN

Hong Kong; Rural livelihoods; Political economy; Colonisation; Decolonisation

• Publisher: Wydział Geografii i Studiów Regionalnych Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
• Journal: Miscellanea Geographica. Regional Studies on Development
• Year: 2018
• Volume: 22
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 31-39

Dates

published

2018

Contributors

author

Claudio O. Delang

• Hong Kong Baptist University Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/mgrsd-2018-0003

Biblioteka Nauki

2117021