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Business Expansion and S...
Liu Hongsheng and His Enterprises, 1920-1937
by Kai Yiu Chan
At the end of the battle, with his fellow soldiers he became a prisoner of war, but he continued somehow to maintain his diary. He spent most of the war in the Argyle Street camp and provided the most complete coverage of life there. This is one of the fullest descriptions of ...
(2010)
4 Reads
The Origins of British B...
This book is the result of scholarly research into a wide range of sources including government records and private papers. It relates the whole history of Britain’s progressive involvement in Borneo leading up to the protectorates in 1888. The wealth of
(2010)
18 Reads
A Documentary History of...
Government and Politics
This volume analyses the evolution of a unique brand of politics in Hong Kong. It examines how a Crown Colony system responded to the demands made of it by its Chinese and British residents in the shadow of the often volatile politics of modern China. It covers a wide range of...
(2010)
8 Reads
Eastern Figures
Orient and Empire in British Writing
by Douglas Kerr
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 official, had used this phrase to describe the gulf between the New Territories ...
(2010)
1 Read
John Woo's The Killer
Relations between Britain and China have, for over 150 years, been inextricably bound up with the taking of Hong Kong on 26 January 1841. The man responsible – Britain's Plenipotentiary Captain Charles Elliot – was recalled by his government in disgrace and has also been vilif...
(2008)
1 Read
Cyber-Crime
The Challenge in Asia
by Rod Broadhurst and Peter Grabosky
The Chinese Educational Mission was the earliest effort at educational modernization in China. As part of the Self-Strengthening Movement, the Qing government sent 120 young boys to New England to live and study for a decade, before abruptly summoning them home to China in 188...
(2005)
5 Reads
Critical Zone 1
A Forum of Chinese and Western Knowledge
by Q.S. Tong, Shouren Wang, and Douglas Kerr
This work illustrates the relationship between one group of Singaporean Chinese and their ancestral village in Fujian, China. It explores the reasons why the Singaporean Chinese continue to maintain ties with their ancestral village and how they reproduce Chinese culture throu...
(2004)
1 Read
Hong Kong 1862-1919
Years of Discretion
by G.R. Sayer and D.M.E. Evans
Geoffrey Robley Sayer (1887-1962) completed this book before World War II as a sequel to his earlier work, Hong Kong: birth, adolescence and coming of age, which was published in 1937.
(2010)
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Lugard in Hong Kong
Empires, Education and a Governor at Work 1907-1912
Sir Frederick Lugard ranks as one of Britain most distinguished colonial administrators, although he remains a controversial figure. During his five years as Governor of Hong Kong -- a brief spell in the middle of a long and dramatic career in Africa --
(2010)
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New Peace County
A Chinese Gazetteer of the Hong Kong Region
This book looks at the 1819 edition of the gazetteer, the last revision of it to be made. The contents of its twenty-five chapters are analysed and discussed under the four main headings History Geography, Economy and Government, and a translation section
(2010)
6 Reads
The Port of Hong Kong
A Survey of its Development
In this book Dr T. N. Chiu describes and explains the pattern of port development in Hong Kong, where he sees the present structure of port activities as the product of a long period of economic, demographic and political developments.
(2010)
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Stanley
Behind Barbed Wire
by Jean Gittins
This is a story of one courageous woman's fight against the vicissitudes, brutality and starvation that faced civilians incarcerated in the infamous Stanley prison, by the Japanese, in Hong Kong during World War II.
(2010)
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Sui Geng
The Hong Kong Marine Police 1841-1950
by Iain Ward
This book tells of the unit's first 109 years, from the tentative rowing patrols of Hong Kong Harbour in 19841 to the gunboats of the 1930s and the ragged flotilla which reinstated the rule of law after the cataclysm of World War II. Where possible the st
(2010)
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Chinese Ecocinema
In the Age of Environmental Challenge
The book is about the author’s personal experiences in China from 1949 to the present. She went through all the political movements, of which the most devastating were the Anti-Rightist Movement and the Cultural Revolution. At the end of the former，her hu
(2010)
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A Documentary History of...
Society
This book puts together historical documents that illustrate the lives and concerns of Hong Kong people through a century and a half of colonial rule. It describes not only the ideals of the elite, but also the harsh realities of life faced by the majority, who until recent ye...
(2010)
6 Reads
Friends and Teachers
Hong Kong and Its People 1953-87
Prompted by the Chinese saying, 'When I walk along with two others, I am bound to be able to learn from them', the title of this memoir reflects the author's close association with the local people through his work and leisure interests, and his consuming desire to learn as mu...
(2010)
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Not the Slightest Chance
The Defence of Hong Kong, 1941
The Battle of Hong Kong was the story that could never be written. More than 10% of its defenders had been killed in battle; a further 20% died in captivity. Those who survived the fighting and 3 years 8 months in brutal POW camps seldom spoke about their experiences. Many die...
(2010)
6 Reads
Power and Identity in th...
Festschrift in Honour of Professor Wang Gungwu
Wang Gungwu is one of the most influential historians of his generation. Initially renowned for his pioneering work on the structure of power in early imperial China, he is more widely known for expanding the horizons of Chinese history to include the histories of the Chinese ...
(2010)
14 Reads
The Voices of Macao Stones
The stones, statues and memorials found all over Macao trace the story from the days of the first Portuguese navigators to reach China in the sixteenth century to the events of more recent times. Hidden away in odd corners or standing incongruously surrounded by modern buildi...
(2010)
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Disease, Colonialism, an...
Malaria in Modern East Asian History
Studying malaria in modern East Asia in the context of the global history of the disease, this book fills an important gap in our understanding of the cultural, social, economic, and political dimensions of the relationship between malaria and human socie
(2010)
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