ABSTRACT
Drawing on intersectionality and post-colonial feminist theory, this chapter looks at how women were marginalised in both legal and customary practices in Hong Kong under British colonial rule. It shows how the change in socio-political dynamics from the pre-colonial to colonial and the post-colonial time shapes the idea of land, both in legal terms and in terms of changing the meaning and values of land in local communities, particularly for different generations of women as change in political and social dynamics mounts. The chapter explores what extent the legal change affects practices of inheritance in the walled villages and whether other factors like individual choices and socio-economic factors play important roles in changing the practices of inheritance that reflect the changing gender dynamics within the walled villages. In both Wang Toi Shan and Shan Ha villages, the changing meaning and value of land to indigenous women looks rather complex in the post-colonial period.
