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Hong Kong University Press The Shek Kip Mei Myth - Squatters, Fires, and Colonial Rule in Hong Kong, 1950-1963: Squatters, Fires and Colonial Rulers in Hong Kong, 1950-1963

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"The Shek Kip Mei Myth" provides a new explanation for the beginnings of Hong Kong's massive public housing program, tracing it to the colonial govenrment's inability to resolve the squatter problem due to constraints posed by the geopolitics of the early Cold War.

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01 June 2006
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