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Feeling the Stones
Hong Kong University Press 2004; US$ 40.00This is a book for everyone with an interest in the recent history of Hong Kong and in an exceptional man who played a major part in that history as he ploughed a distinctive and individual, and sometimes controversial, path from District Officer to Acting Governor to Hong Kong Affairs Advisor. more...
Not the Slightest Chance
Hong Kong University Press 2003; US$ 40.00The book assembles a phase-by-phase, day-by-day, hour-by-hour, and death-by-death account of the battle. It considers the individual actions that made up the fighting, as well as the strategies and plans and the many controversies that arose. more...
Light and Shade
Hong Kong University Press 2009; US$ 38.00Solomon Bard's life has been an extraordinary story of a peripatetic youth, of incident and adventure, and of varied enthusiasms pursued with great energy to a very high level. more...
May Days in Hong Kong
Hong Kong University Press 2009; US$ 40.00In this study of the anti-colonial riots which erupted in Hong Kong in May 1967, the authors of May Days in Hong Kong shed new light on their causes, their impact on future government policy and on Sino-British relations, and their legacy for Hong Kong society and governance, and the people of the territory.This is the first sustained exploration of... more...
Hong Kong Invaded!
Hong Kong University Press 2001; US$ 48.00This visionary novel by an anonymous author has been forgotten for a hundred years. Yet when published as The Back Door during the negotiations between Imperial China and Great Britain over the lease of the New Territories, the story aroused serious British fears about the possibility of defending Hong Kong against attack. more...
Hong Kong Metamorphosis
Hong Kong University Press 2001; US$ 40.00The story is told as an autobiography, from growing up in China to the occasional brief occupation of the Governor's seat. In the early days, 'administration' was rather a grand word to describe the daily grappling with novel problems never before encountered. more...
Hong Kong: The Road to 1997
Cambridge University Press 1997; US$ 32.00Essential reading for all those interested in the remarkable history of Hong Kong since 1945 and in its unpredictable future after 1997. more...
Public Success, Private Sorrow
Hong Kong University Press 2009; US$ 38.00Brewitt-Taylor was the first to fully translate a traditional Chinese novel into English. His life, in teaching and the Chinese Imperial Customs, makes a fascinating study of an Englishman in Qing and early Republican China. His personal story is marked by sadness, bereavement and his wife's madness. more...
Hong Kong's Watershed
Hong Kong University Press 2009; US$ 40.00Hong Kong's Watershed: The 1967 Riots is the first English book that provides an account and critical analysis of the disturbances based on declassified files from the British government and recollection by key players during the events. The interviews with the participants, including Jack Cater, Liang Shangyuan, George Walden, Tsang Tak-sing,... more...
Foreign Communities in Hong Kong, 1840s-1950s
Palgrave Macmillan 2005; US$ 95.00This collection of essays describes adaptations of minority ethnic groups to cross-cultural situations in Hong Kong from the 1840s through the 1950s. It aims to portray Hong Kong history through the perspectives of foreign communities - the British, Germans, Americans, Indians and Japanese - and to understand how they perceived the economic situation,... more...









