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Tsuen Wan
James Hayes
其他書名
Growth of a 'new Town' and Its People
出版Oxford University Press, 1993
主題History / WorldReference / DictionariesScience / Life Sciences / BotanySocial Science / Sociology / GeneralSocial Science / Sociology / Urban
ISBN01958516689780195851663
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=BYiyAAAAIAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋Perhaps no other part of post-war Hong Kong experienced the trauma of rapid urbanization and industrialization as intensely as did Tsuen Wan. The district (including Kwai Chung, Tsing Yi, Ma Wan, and north-east Lantau) was once known for its sweet pineapples and fiercely independent villagers. The arrival of floods of refugees from China converted it into a loose hotchpotch of people and a polluted and overcrowded centre for Hong Kong's burgeoning textile industry and expanding port. Tsuen Wan: Growth of a 'New Town' and Its People is the story of this metamorphosis. Formerly Tsuen Wan's Town Manager and District Officer, James Hayes offers a first-hand glimpse inside government and its relations with local residents at a time when Tsuen Wan was a guinea-pig for some of the administration's first efforts at relocating masses of people and implementing large-scale urban development, town planning, and more representative district-level government. He writes with wit and insight of the local people whose traditional ways of life have been irrevocably altered by post-war growth.