Just doing their job: The hidden meteorologists of colonial Hong Kong c.1883–1914

• Main Author: WILLIAMSON, Fiona
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2021
• Subjects: History of science; climate; meteorology; Hong Kong; colonial; Asian Studies; Geography; Race, Ethnicity and Post-Colonial Studies
• 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
• Institution: Singapore Management University

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...