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"""Employing ethnography and combing through archives, Smart and Fung uncover how the British formalized squatter housing. Highlighting questions of sociopolitical and historical change by analyzing bureaucratic and geopolitical forces-a fascinating project delving into the nature of colonial rule, immigrant resilience, and political economic structures. A major contribution to evidence-based settler colonial studies."" --Setha Low, City University of New York ""Smart and Fung offer a fresh and thought-provoking analysis of the changing state-society relations in the postwar decades by unravelling the complexities of Hong Kong's urban landscape through their critical analysis of the question of informality and the issue of squatting."" -Lui Tai-Lok, Education University of Hong Kong ""The definitive history of how resettlement policies evolved as the squatter population swelled and as London and Beijing moved closer to signing the 1984 Sino-British Declaration. A masterful combination of theorizing and documentary sleuthing, a landmark in contemporary debates over the optimal responses to the formalization of informal property."" -Deborah Davis, Yale University"

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Alan Smart is professor emeritus in the Department of Anthropology and Archaeology at the University of Calgary. Fung Chi Keung Charles received his MPhil in Government and Public Administration at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

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