Toilet as Business for the Hygiene of the Chinese Community in Colonial Hong Kong
Yuk-sik Chong
Toilet as Business for the Hygiene of the Chinese Community in Colonial Hong Kong
Yuk-sik Chong
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English
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Description
This book analyses how public toilets were provided by the government and local business in Hong Kong between the 1860s and 1930s through a process that was embedded in class and racial politics.
Yuk-sik Chong is Research Associate in the Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Educated at the University of Hong Kong (Sociology and Heritage Conservation) and the University of Warwick (Race and Ethnics), Chong is the author of On-Street Newspaper Stalls (2010) and The Footsteps of Hong Kong Cotton Spinners (2013), and Professional member of the Hong Kong Institute of Architectural Conservationists.
Yuk-sik Chong is Research Associate in the Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Educated at the University of Hong Kong (Sociology and Heritage Conservation) and the University of Warwick (Race and Ethnics), Chong is the author of On-Street Newspaper Stalls (2010) and The Footsteps of Hong Kong Cotton Spinners (2013), and Professional member of the Hong Kong Institute of Architectural Conservationists.