Town Talk: Enhancing the 'eyes and ears' of the colonial state in British Hong Kong, 1950s-1975
This article offers a longer perspective on the origins and effectiveness of reforms of colonial governance in Hong Kong. It shows that the colonial state shifted from increasingly ineffective indirect rule to using a covert bureaucratic opinion poll, Town Talk, to assess public opinion. The article...
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Oxford University Press
2022
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