A timely, well-researched, and vibrant new history of Hong Kong
that reveals the untold stories of the diverse peoples who have
made it a multicultural world metropolis-and whose freedoms are
endangered today. Hong Kong has always been many cities to many
people: a seaport, a gateway to an empire, a place where fortunes
can be dramatically made or lost, a place to disappear and reinvent
oneself, and a mixing pot of diverse populations from literally
everywhere around the globe. A British Crown Colony for 155 years,
Hong Kong is now ruled by the Chinese Communist Party who continues
to threaten its democracy and put its rich legacy at risk. Here,
renowned journalist Vaudine England delves into Hong Kong's complex
history and its people-diverse, multi-cultural, cosmopolitan-who
have made this one-time fishing village into the world port city it
is today. Rather than a traditional history describing a town led
by British Governors or a mere offshoot of a collapsing Chinese
empire, Fortune's Bazaar is the first thorough examination of the
varied peoples who made Hong Kong. While British traders and Asian
merchants had long been busy in the Indian and South East Asian
seas, there were many from different cultures and ethnic
backgrounds who arrived in Hong Kong, met and married-despite all
taboos-and created a distinct community. Many of Hong Kong's most
influential figures during its first century as a city were neither
British nor Chinese-they were Malay or Indian, Jewish or Armenian,
Parsi or Portuguese, Eurasian or Chindian-or simply, Hong Kongers.
England describes those overlooked in history including the
opium-traders who built synagogues or churches, ship-owners
carrying gold-rush migrants, property tycoons, and more. Here, too,
is the visionary who plumbed Hong Kong's harbor depths to spur
reclamation, the half-Dutch Chinese gentleman with two wives who
was knighted by Queen Victoria, and the landscape gardeners who
settled Kowloon and became millionaires. A story of empire, race,
and sex, Fortune's Bazaar combines deep archival research and oral
history to present a vivid history of a special place-a unique city
made by diverse people of the world, whose part in its creation has
never been properly told until now.
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