Forests, woods and trees in relation to hygiene, by Augustine Henry.

Henry, Augustine

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“…109 Studies proliferated which considered, for example, the 'hygienic effects' of eucalyptus, pine, and camphor forests 110 and 'the extreme importance of afforestation' for human health. 111 The purpose of these works was broadly:…”

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Hygienic Nature: Afforestation and the greening of colonial Hong Kong

Peckham¹

2014

Mod. Asian Stud.

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This article examines the ‘greening’ of Hong Kong in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, with an emphasis on the afforestation of the colony's ‘barren’ mountainsides from the 1880s. To date, histories of Hong Kong have tended to focus on the colonial state's urban interventions, particularly on the draconian measures it took to ‘sanitize’ Chinese districts. In contrast, this article connects Hong Kong's urban development with the history of green space and the cultivation of ‘nature’. While the state sought to transform the ‘barren rock’ into a visible correlate of the colony's aspiring status as an imperial hub in Asia, the promotion of hygiene and health provided a further rationale for tree-planting. The article argues that colonial Hong Kong provides insights into the ‘tropicalization of modernity’ and the constitutive processes by which colonial power was naturalized and legitimated through planning practices that extended from the urban to the natural. A study of Hong Kong's afforestation underscores the importance of the natural environment as a ‘contact zone’ between colonial and ‘native’ cultures; it also reveals the extent to which the equation of a ‘green’ landscape with economic (re)production and colonial order, functioned as a critical trope for framing race and labour.

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Section: Trees Hygiene and Healthmentioning

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Hygienic Nature: Afforestation and the greening of colonial Hong Kong

Peckham¹

2014

Mod. Asian Stud.

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Forests, woods and trees in relation to hygiene, by Augustine Henry.

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Hygienic Nature: Afforestation and the greening of colonial Hong Kong

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