Space and Everyday Lives of Children in Hong Kong

The Interwar Period

Stella Meng Wang (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

XXII, 264 Seiten

2024
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-031-44403-6 (ISBN)

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Deploying a spatial approach towards children's everyday life in interwar Hong Kong, this book considers the context-specific development of five transnational movements: the garden city movement; imperial hygiene movement; nationalist sentiments; the Young Women's Christian Association; and the Girl Guide. Locating these transnational cultural movements in four layers of context, from the most immediate to the most global, including the context of Hong Kong, Republican China, the British empire, and global influences, this book shows Hong Kong as a distinctive colonial domain where the imperatives around race, gender and class produced new products of empire where the child, the garden, the school and sport turned out to be the main dynamics in play in the interwar period.

Stella Meng Wang is a recent PhD graduate of the Sydney School of Education and Social Work at the University of Sydney, Australia, and a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Literature and Cultural Studies at the Education University of Hong Kong. Stella's research interests include history of hygiene, history of education, women's history, urban history, and history of architecture and health.

1. Introduction.- 2. Garden City: Urban Reform, Colonial Domesticity, and Spaces of Play in Childhood, 1921-1941.- 3. Building Healthy Schools: Architecture of Fitness in Hong Kong, 1901-1941.- 4. Treading a Different Path: Gender and the Literary Space at St. Stephen's Girls' College, 1921-1941.- 5. Lifting Girls: Chinese Women and the YWCA in Hong Kong, 1921-1941.- 6. Reimagining the Colonial Space: Femininity and the Everyday Life of Girl Guides in Hong Kong, 1921-1941.- 7. Conclusion

Erscheinungsdatum	25.12.2024
Reihe/Serie	Global Histories of Education
Zusatzinfo	XXII, 264 p. 15 illus.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
Schlagworte	Garden City movement • Girl Guides • Hong Kong • Hong Kong childhood • Hong Kong education • Imperial hygiene movement • YWCA
ISBN-10	3-031-44403-5 / 3031444035
ISBN-13	978-3-031-44403-6 / 9783031444036
Zustand	Neuware