Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Introduction.--Hong Kong cadets, 1862-1941.--A Chinese association in Hong Kong: the Tung Wah.--The evolution of a Chinese voluntary association in Hong Kong: the Po Leung Kuk.--The District Watch Committee: the Chinese Executive Council of Hong Kong? --Sir James Haldane Stewart Lockhart: colonial civil servant and scholar.--Caste, class, and race in Hong Kong before the Japanese occupation.--Condition of the European working class in nineteenth century Hong Kong.--The emergence of bureaucratic corruption as a social problem in Hong Kong.--Adventurers in Hong Kong: the Marquis de Mor?es and David de Mayrâena.