23/9/2002
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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
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中文著作 |
英文著作 |
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<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 1997:217)
「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 1997:217)
“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)