The Unknown City: Contesting Architecture and Social Space

Notes
1 “The New Buildings of the Hongkong and
Shanghai Bank,” Daily Press, 14 August 1886.
2 “The New Buildings of the Hongkong and
Shanghai Bank,” China Mail, 9 August 1886;
“New Buildings,” Daily Press, 14 August 1886.
The contractor is named in the Hongkong and
Shanghai Banking Corporation, “Board Minutes
(Extracts),” 15 February 1883, Hongkong Bank
Archives.
3 See the map showing the Victoria seafront
between 1843 and 1855, with proposed reclamation
schemes, in T. R. Tregear and L. Berry, The
Development of Hong Kong and Kowloon as Told in
Maps (Hong Kong: Macmillan, 1959), p. 8; and
Plan of Victoria 1866 (Hong Kong: Public Record
Office, 1866), no. 242. The dimensions are given
in “New Buildings,” Daily Press, 14 August
1886.
4 The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking
Corporation, “Board Minutes (Extracts),” 27
September 1881 and 30 November 1882,
Hongkong Bank Archives.
5 See the list of the Bank’s 1882 board of
directors in Frank King, The Hongkong Bank in
Late Imperial China, 1864–1902: On an Even
Keel (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
1987), p. 363.
6 Henry Lethbridge, Hong Kong, Stability and
Change: A Collection of Essays (Hong Kong: Oxford
University Press, 1978), pp. 10, 181.
7 Wai-Kwan Chan, The Making of Hong Kong
Society: Three Studies of Class Formation in Early
Hong Kong (Oxford: Oxford University Press,
1991), p. 34.
8 Colin Criswell, The Taipans: Hong Kong’s
Merchant Princes (Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 1981), pp. 103–104.
9 “New Buildings,” China Mail, 9 August
1886; “New Building,” Daily Press, 14 August
1886.
10 “New Building,” Daily Press, 14 August
1886.
11 “New Buildings,” China Mail, 9 August
1886.
Colonialism, Power, and the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank
12 The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation,
“Board Minutes (Extracts),” 2 October
1883 and 21 January 1886, Hongkong Bank
Archives.
13 “New Buildings,” China Mail, 9 August
1886; “New Building,” Daily Press, 14 August
1886.
14 This and the following description of the
plan and furnishings appear in “New Building,”
Daily Press, 14 August 1886.
15 L. N. Wheeler, The Foreigner in China
(Chicago: S. C. Griggs, 1881), p. 242; William
Des Voeux, My Colonial Service (London: John
Murray, 1903), 2:199.
16 “New Buildings,” China Mail, 9 August
1886; “New Building,” Daily Press, 14 August
1886.
17 “New Buildings,” China Mail, 9 August
1886; “New Building,” Daily Press, 14 August
1886.
18 “New Building,” Daily Press, 14 August
1886.
19 “New Buildings,” China Mail, 9 August
1886.
20 “New Building,” Daily Press, 14 August
1886.
21 Chan, Making of Hong Kong Society, pp.
28–29.
22 Criswell, The Taipans, p. 222.
23 “New Building,” Daily Press, 14 August
1886.
24 Edward Said, Culture and Imperialism (London:
Chatto and Windus, 1993), pp. 8–10. On
Orientalism more generally, see Edward Said,
Orientalism (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul,
1978).
25 For details of the government policy, see
Elizabeth Sinn, Power and Charity: The Early History
of Tung Wah Hospital (Hong Kong: Hong
Kong University Press, 1990), pp. 2–29.
26 Criswell, The Taipans, pp. 104, 174, 214.