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, but this perspective is not supported by strong evidence. In 1950, life expectancy in Britain was sixty-nine. In Sierra Leone, after 150 years of colonial rule, life expectancy was under thirty, relatively similar to the life expectancy of premodern humans who lived five thousand or fifty thousand years ago. In general
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had settled in Malacca, on the Malayan Peninsula, and boasted an ancestor who had been leader of the Chinese community, or “Kapitan Cina,” under Dutch colonial rule there. He also had an uncle in Hong Kong since the 1870s, Choa Chee-bee, comprador to a sugar firm. After joining him there in
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combined with the ambitions of the left wing of the nationalist Kuomintang and of the fledgling Communist Party in Canton, creating a perfect storm for colonial rule. Trouble began in Shanghai in May 1925 when Sikh police under British command in the International Settlement opened fire and killed at least nine Chinese
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different, then they have stayed. Certainly their idea of Hong Kong as home survived Japanese occupation, World War Two, and even the return of British colonial rule. As Jürgen Osterhammel has made clear, domination by foreigners was not necessarily perceived by its subjects as illegitimate; indeed, in Hong Kong a long history
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Chinese Gazetteer of the Hong Kong Region. (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 1983). Ngo Tak-wing. Hong Kong’s History, State and Society Under Colonial Rule (London: Routledge, 1999). Nocontelli, Carmen. Empires of Love: Europe, Asia and the Making of Early Modern Identity (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013). Norton-Kyshe
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History of Sexuality and the Colonial Order of Things (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1995). ———. Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power: Race and the Intimate in Colonial Rule (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002). ———. Along the Archival Grain—Epistemic Anxieties and Colonial Common Sense (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2009). Stone, Lawrence. The
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106 Woodlark Island 30–1, 34, 42–3 Solomon Islands 115, 230 bats 137–8, 144–5, 155–6 biodiversity 119 blackbirding 119–20 British colonial rule 120 British law 151–2 cannibalism 120–1, 124, 183 Greater Bukida landmass 181, 183 habitat destruction 184, 188 history of Spanish contact 116–18
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