Reluctant heroes rickshaw pullers in Hong Kong and Canton, 1874-1954 - Fung, Chi Ming (Hong Kong University Press, 2005)
Includes bibliographical references and index
Illustrations; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; Editorial Conventions; Introduction; Part One -- Across the Colonial Matrix; 1.A City of Sojourners and Transients; 2. The Urban Workplace and Street Politics; 3. British Rule and Chinese Valiancy, up to 1926; Part Two -- Republical Canton 1911-38; 4. Evolution of a New Civic Paradigm; 5. Partisan Politics and the 1927 Insurrection; 6. Reforms on the Municipal Agenda in the 1930s; Part Three -- Within A Fast -- Changing Context; 7. Growing Passion for Change, up to 1941; 8. Surviving in the Pacific War, 1937-45