CUS/ GEC 317

Part IIa: Historicizing Hong Kong

23/9/2002

GE 319, ext 7443

 

1. Anecdotes or History?  Plot or Story?

1.1. Historical writing: a flourishing “industry”?

1.2. Colonialists’ histories, general history: William Tarrant and E. J. Eitel

1.3. Local history: anecdotes (see attachment)

*《羅江縣志》(李調元)卷一:沿革  城池  縣署  俸廉       倉庫        糧銀        名宦        廳署        學署

1.4. Two modes of writing

 

早期香港史著作

中文著作

英文著作

<香港略論><香港羈蹤>(王韜1883

《香港百年史》(黎晉偉1948

《香港初期史話》(丁又1959

《香港方物志》(葉靈鳳1958

《一八四二年以前之香港及其對外交通──香港前代史》(羅香林1959

 

Hong Kong: A History of Hong Kong from the Time of Its Cession to The British Empire to the Year 1844. (William Tarrant 189?)

Hong Kong (Martin Hurliman 1862)

Europe in China: the History of Hong Kong from the Beginning to the Year 1882 (E. J. Eitel 1895)

 

2. Historical writing of Hong Kong sine the 1980s

2.1. Hong Kong history, made in / for China

e.g. 《十九世紀的香港》、《二十世紀的香港》

2.2. General history, national history and linear history

2.2.1. Coherent storyßànarrative fragments

2.2.2. Linear history: the history of a subject: China, England, France, Germany, … ..Chinese Civilization, Western Civilization

2.2.3. Eliminating the differences

2.2.4. Example: Return to the “mother body”回歸母體

2.2.5. Marginalizing non-nations such as tribal polities, empires and other political entities

2.2.6. Hong Kong: no general history


Appendix

 

在以下兩段琦善的說話中,「香港」的含意有甚麼不同,這對香港有甚麼含意?

 

「奴才先訪得該夷求請地方,請所垂涎者,一係粵省之大嶼山,一係海島,名為香港,均在老萬山以內,距澳門不遠。伏查大嶼山袤延數百里,地居險要,早經建築炮台,設有守備。即香港亦寬至七八十里,環處眾山之中,可避風濤,如或給與,必致屯兵聚糧,建台設炮,久之必覬覦廣東,流弊不可勝言。」(琦善上奏道光,1840.12.19,馬金科 1997217

 

「查香港離省四百六十里,孤懸海外,較澳門為尤遠,衹係全島中之一隅,其餘毗連者,又名大潭,又名裙帶路,又名赤柱,又名紅香爐。若就全島而論,東西約長五十里,南北約寬二十里。專就香港而論,東西約十里,南北約五里。島內間有民房田盧,較之別島為少。」(琦善上奏道光,1841,馬金科 1997217

 

“Hong Kong has no precolonial past to speak of.  It is true that in a sense Hong Kong did have a history before 1841, when it was ceded to the British; there are records of human settlement on the island going back at least to the Sung dynasty; but the history of Hong Kong, in terms that are relevant to what it has become today, has effectively been a history of colonialism.” (Ackbar Abbas 1997: 2)

 

 

Assigned reading for next week:

蔡榮芳《香港人之香港史》第二章(特別是「香港華商的特性」一節)

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