'Hong Kong can afford a typhoon or two': British discussions of revolving storms.

IF 0.7 1区 哲学 Q2 HISTORY & PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE British Journal for the History of Science Pub Date : 2021-09-01 DOI:10.1017/S0007087421000236
Chi Chi Huang
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This article examines the way in which the British press reported on typhoons that affected Hong Kong during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Typhoons were a significant element in the narration of the British Empire, featuring frequently in British accounts of their involvements in the Far East, where Hong Kong was its only colony. I suggest that these accounts need to be considered alongside the consolidation of the 'tropics' as a region in British perceptions, and in doing so, this article opens discussions of the study of tropicality to the consideration not just of climate, but also of the significance of singular weather events. This article argues that the cultural representations of typhoons in the British press were a tool of 'othering'. In particular, there were two significant shifts around the 1880s in these reports. First, the term 'typhoon' became tied to these types of storms that affected Hong Kong. Second, the stories that were told about typhoon events emphasized British heroism and colonial management. Both these shifts in reporting stripped away the weather wisdom that British sailors had earlier identified in the local population.

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“香港承受得起一两个台风”:英国人对旋转风暴的讨论。
本文考察了十九世纪至二十世纪初,英国媒体对影响香港的台风的报道方式。台风是大英帝国叙事中的一个重要元素,经常出现在英国人对远东的描述中,香港是其唯一的殖民地。我建议,这些说法需要与英国人对“热带”作为一个地区的看法一并考虑,这样做,本文就开启了对热带研究的讨论,不仅要考虑气候,还要考虑单一天气事件的重要性。本文认为,英国媒体对台风的文化表征是一种“他者”的工具。特别是,在19世纪80年代前后,这些报告中有两个重要的转变。首先,“台风”一词与影响香港的这些类型的风暴联系在一起。其次,关于台风事件的故事强调英国的英雄主义和殖民管理。这两种报告方式的转变都剥夺了英国水手早先在当地居民中发现的天气智慧。
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