The Shek Kip Mei myth : squatters, fires and colonial rule in Hong Kong, 1950-1963

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    • Smart, Alan

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The Shek Kip Mei myth : squatters, fires and colonial rule in Hong Kong, 1950-1963

Alan Smart

Hong Kong University Press, c2006

  • : hbk
  • : pbk.

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Bibliography: p. [217]-224

Includes index

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"The Shek Kip Mei Myth" provides a new explanation for the beginnings of Hong Kong's massive public housing program, tracing it to the colonial govenrment's inability to resolve the squatter problem due to constraints posed by the geopolitics of the early Cold War.

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