New on Gwulo: 2020, week 38

Submitted by David on Sat, 09/19/2020 - 16:00

I've listed some of the recent highlights below, but you can visit the What's New page at any time to see all the latest additions to the site.

General

Andy is looking for good resources about the history of the indigenous Hong Kong villagers
The Route TWISK Corruption Scandal in the 1950s
Notes on the yacht Fantome II, and its visit to Hong Kong in 1923
The shipyard Geo. Fenwick and Co. [1880-c.1911]
The fisheries organisation during the Japanese occupation:

HK Fish Marketing Org Group Photo, by Tsang/Lay Family Archive

Talk on 5 October, and other book news

On Monday evening, 5 October, I'll join May Holdsworth and Christopher Munn in the JC Cube theatre at Tai Kwun to give a joint talk about the recently published book, Crime, Justice and Punishment in Colonial Hong Kong. (The book will be on sale at the event with a special 30% discount.)

May and Christopher will share some of the colourful characters and other discoveries that they encountered during their detailed research for this project. I'll follow up by showing a selection of my favourite images from the book, focusing on several that surprised me. After the talk there is plenty of time for Q&A.

I'm looking forward to hearing what May and Christopher have to say, and also to showing you the images - JC Cube has tiered seating and an enormous screen that make it a great venue for showing off high resolution images.

Please visit the Tai Kwun website for more details and to book your seats.

The first reviews of the new book are also starting to appear.

South China Morning Post:

Written in an approachable style, the book is full of historical data, personalities and anecdotes that illuminate [Tai Kwun’s] history... At once informative and entertaining, it brings both Hong Kong’s judicial system and its early history to vivid life.

Asian Review of Books:

Anyone with a passing interest in the city and its colonial past will find something to enjoy in this book. For readers who know Hong Kong well, it might even help to make the familiar strange again. That’s good.

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Staying with crime as the theme, Patricia O'Sullivan tells us that her new book, Women, Crime and the Courts - Hong Kong 1841-1941, is nearing publication and lets us know what to expect. I'm looking forward to reading it.

Women, Crime and Courts Hong Kong 1841-1941

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Meanwhile, I'm still working through the photos for the next Gwulo book, cleaning them up and getting them ready to print. Below I've enlarged a few details that caught my eye.