Abstract
Factions were adaptive in terms of the success and failure of leaders to preside over the development of Sai Kung market. As the arena continued to undergo rapid and penetrating change, the factions and their infant institutions were pawns of political manipulators. Being Cantonese also helped in two other ways: In so far as the Hakka enclave of Sai Kung existed in the Cantonese arena, it was beneficial to have a leader competent in Cantonese representing the local society to the outside world. During the Japanese occupation, Sai Kung became an area of resistance. The Sai Kung Struggle Committee had a general membership of over 200 persons. The three largest categories by ethnicity, residence, age and sex were all local Hakka: village men, village young men, market town women and market town men. Immigrant traders, shopkeepers and even local Cantonese villagers procured Hakka wives who provided the tenuous alliance between the Hakka majority and the Cantonese minority.
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