In 1898 Great Britain added to its colony at Hong Kong a 368-square-mile expanse of mountainous countryside and islands, leased from China for a term of 99 years, which became known as the New Territo
In this classic study (1977), James Hayes examines local leadership in six villages and townships in Hong Kong's rural New Territories during the late Qing. Drawing on a wealth of documentary sources
James Stewart Lockhart called it "the great difference". Returned from an inspection tour of the newly leased extension to Hong Kong territory in August 1898, Lockhart, a senior Hong Kong colonial off
1898年，英國向中國租借了368平方英里的土地，納入香港這個英國殖民地的轄土，為期99年；這片由鄉野山區和島嶼組成的廣闊土地，後來稱為新界。 殖民地政府官員駱克（James Stewart Lockhart）當年曾用「巨大差異」（The Great Difference）來形容這片新租之地後，他所指的是新界人與原有香港居民
