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Hong Kong
Hong Kong has long held a fascination for travelers, and has been an inspiration to those who lived there. This new collection of writing offers remarkable insight into Hong Kong's past, with pieces that date as far back as the Song Dynasty and continue to the present day. The sixty extracts are taken from novels, poems, short stories, biographies, letters, postcards, diaries, and even speeches--many never before published--and are illustrated with contemporary photographs and sketches. Writers include Queen Victoria, Jules Verne, Rudyard Kipling, and W.H. Auden, as well as soldiers and sailors, doctors and clergymen, painters and photographers, tourists and travelers, the rich and the poor, Europeans and Chinese. Lord Palmerston comments in 1844 on the addition to the British empire, the first settlers describe and difficulties of life in the new colony, late Victorian ladies struggle with the language, heat, and social obligations, and the war years bring letters from the POW camps. Through these passages readers are given the opportunity to experience Hong Kong and its people, from past to present, in a unique and personal way.
Turbans and Traders
Hong Kong's Indian community comprises one of the most visible and colourful minority groups in the Territory. Punctuated with profiles of prominent individuals and institutions, this study examines the history of a unique group and makes predictions for i
Bishop_BischoffResearch: The Descendants of Jacob and Katherine (Elkins) Bishop
This is a compilation of the descendants of Jacob Bishop and Katherine Elkins. Jacob was the son of Hans Johannes Bischoff and Margaretha Overmeyer. Many of their descendants settled in and remained in the Floyd and Montgomery County areas of Virginia. Includes photos.
The State, Development and Identity in Multi-Ethnic Societies
This book examines ethnic communities, identity, economy, society and state, and the links between them, in a range of countries across Asia, challenging the widely held belief that an authoritarian political system is necessary to ensure communal co-existence in developing countries where ethnic minorities have a considerable economic presence.
Forgotten Souls
The author has recorded the inscriptions on all 8000 graves in the HK Cemetery. These by the way will be available in due course as an on-line database through the Hong Kong Memory project. She has selected, from the graves she has recorded, a wide range of people whose lives shed light on the nature of society in Hong Kong. Inevitably as this was the 'Colonial' cemetery, they are predominantly Europeans, although there are numerous Chinese and a surprising number of Japanese too. She has then sought out information on these people from contemporary newspapers, land records, court records etc to provide a rich description of life in Hong Kong during the first 100 years approximately from its...
A Concise History of Hong Kong
When the British occupied the tiny island of Hong Kong during the First Opium War, the Chinese empire was well into its decline, while Great Britain was already in the second decade of its legendary "Imperial Century." From this collision of empires arose a city that continues to intrigue observers. Melding Chinese and Western influences, Hong Kong has long defied easy categorization. John M. Carroll's engrossing and accessible narrative explores the remarkable history of Hong Kong from the early 1800s through the post-1997 handover, when this former colony became a Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China. The book explores Hong Kong as a place with a unique identity, yet also a crossroads where Chinese history, British colonial history, and world history intersect. Carroll concludes by exploring the legacies of colonial rule, the consequences of Hong Kong's reintegration with China, and significant developments and challenges since 1997.
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