Just doing their job: The hidden meteorologists of colonial Hong Kong c.1883–1914
This article investigates the contribution made by indigenous employees to the work of the Hong Kong Observatory from its inception and into the early twentieth century. As has so often been the case in Western histories of science, the significance of indigenous workers and of women in the Hong Kon...
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Main Author: | WILLIAMSON, Fiona |
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Language: | English |
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Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University
2021
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Online Access: | https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3432 https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/4689/viewcontent/just_doing_their_job_the_hidden_meteorologists_of_colonial_hong_kong_c18831914.pdf |
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