By Pui-tak Lee
ISBN-10: 9622097200
ISBN-13: 9789622097209
The evolution of Hong Kong, as a British colony and now a distinct Administrative quarter at China's door step, has consistently been inextricably intertwined with the placement in China. This dating is tested via a variety of views during this quantity.
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00), retains for self one cubicle and sitting room, has two subtenants at four dollars each. Bom San Wui, Kwangtung Province. Came to Hong Kong, aged 16, with a clansman as was poor in country. Apprentice for three years in furniture shop, Wanchai, Hong Kong, no pay, free board and lodging; then nine dollars per month with free lodging but not free food. After two months left shop to look for odd jobs as pay was too low. After several years obtained work at Taikoo, at first under contractor; three years ago joined permanent staff.
The following exchange of views makes it obvious that the Chinese elite was now quite isolated from the common worker: Mr Ross Thomson:- ... It is a fact, is it not, that ordinary labourers, here in the City of Victoria, demand a very much higher wage than, for instance, they would get in Sha Tau Kok or in places in the hills over the other side. The Chairman:- Of course, they have to pay so much more for rent. Mr Chow Shou-son:- The cost of living is higher. Mr Ross Thomson:- Is that enough to account for the difference or is it simply a matter of combination?
As he was looking more for indications of what trades they were engaged in than what their membership consisted of, he made no distinction between their status as employers or employees beyond the explicit declaration to this effect by the guilds themselves. Even then, he noted that the masons and the matpackers were divided into two guilds, one for masters and the other for employees. 27 Details in a small collection of guild regulations (in Chinese and English translation) among the Clementi papers should bear out this conclusion.