Crime and its Punishment in Victorian Hong Kong
In 1842, the Treaty of Nanking gave the island of Hong Kong to the British Crown. The new settlement immediately attracted a population of poor Chinese who flocked there in the hope of making a better living than on the mainland. Not surprisingly, crime was rampant on the fringe on the new colonial...
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| Language: | English |
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Centre de Recherche et d'Etudes en Civilisation Britannique
2003-09-01
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| Series: | Revue Française de Civilisation Britannique |
| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/rfcb/1613 |