How Long to Read Building Colonial Hong Kong

How Long Does it Take to Read Building Colonial Hong Kong?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 32 minutes to read Building Colonial Hong Kong by Cecilia L. Chu

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

In the 1880s, Hong Kong was a booming colonial entrepôt, with many European, especially British, residents living in palatial mansions in the Mid-Levels and at the Peak. But it was also a ruthless migrant city where Chinese workers shared bedspaces in the crowded tenements of Taipingshan. Despite persistent inequality, Hong Kong never ceased to attract different classes of sojourners and immigrants, who strived to advance their social standing by accumulating wealth, especially through land and property speculation. In this engaging and extensively illustrated book, Cecilia L. Chu retells the ‘Hong Kong story’ by tracing the emergence of its ‘speculative landscape’ from the late nineteenth to the early decades of the twentieth century. Through a number of pivotal case studies, she highlights the contradictory logic of colonial urban development: the encouragement of native investment that supported a laissez-faire housing market, versus the imperative to segregate the populations in a hierarchical, colonial spatial order. Crucially, she shows that the production of Hong Kong’s urban landscapes was not a top-down process, but one that evolved through ongoing negotiations between different constituencies with vested interests in property. Further, her study reveals that the built environment was key to generating and attaining individual and collective aspirations in a racially divided, highly unequal, but nevertheless upwardly mobile, modernizing colonial city.

How long is Building Colonial Hong Kong?

Building Colonial Hong Kong by Cecilia L. Chu is 271 pages long, and a total of 68,021 words.

This makes it 91% the length of the average book. It also has 83% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Building Colonial Hong Kong Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 11 minutes to read Building Colonial Hong Kong aloud.

What Reading Level is Building Colonial Hong Kong?

Building Colonial Hong Kong is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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