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MODERN ASIAN STUDIES
卷 43, 期 -, 页码 1463-1493出版社
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/S0026749X08003648
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This article frames the debate about mui-tsai (meizai, female bondservants) in late nineteenth-century Hong Kong within changing conceptions of the colony's political, geographical and cultural position. Whereas some colonial officials saw the mui-tsai system as a national shame that challenged Britain's commitment to ending slavery, others argued that it was all archaic: custom that would eventually dissolve as China modernized. The debate also showed the rise of a class of Chinese elites who had accumulated enough power to defend the mui-tsai system as a time-honoured Chinese custom, even while acknowledging that in Hong Kong they lived beyond the boundaries of Chinese sovereignty. Challenging notions of the reach of the colonial state and showing how colonial policies often had unintended consequences, this debate also reveals the: analytical and explanatory weakness of concepts such as 'colonial discourse' or 'the colonial mind'.
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