HIS385H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Kang Youwei, Knitting, Tung Wah Hospital
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1900-1911: 13 published in hk readers in hk, overseas, southern china. The newspapers can published freely in hong kong, so they moved from shanghai to hk. spread the message to hkers and oversea chinese people. -the newspapers will be smuggled by merchants into china. Women, teachers+students, tung wah hospital fund-raising, food, medicine. Women sell their luxuries in order to support the revolution in china. relieve materials for send back to china. British government in hk did not care how chinese government failed, created the domestic problem. Influx of people- money into hk population, 1914: 500,000. Majority celebrated end of qing dynasty of every hundred chinese in hong kong, ninety-nine are in sympathy with the rebel. Removing of queue to end symbolic submission. Whereas in the spring of 1911 a chinese discarded his queue at the risk of losing his head. in the spring of 1912 he risked his head who kept his queue (g. r. sayer)
