An anthology selected and edited by Barbara-Sue White. On the back cover, it states:
"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 through to the present day. The sixty entertaining extracts, many never before published, are taken from novels, poems, short stories, biographies, letters, postcards, diaries and speeches. Writers include the celebrated - Queen Victoria, Jules Verne, W.H. Auden, and Louise Ho, amongst others - as well as soldiers and sailors, doctors and clergymen, painters and photographers, the rich and the poor, Europeans and Chinese. Lord Palmerston comments in 1844 on the addition to the British empire, late Victorian ladies struggle with the language, heat, and social obligations, the war years bring letters from the Japanese POW camps, and a modern-day visitor decides whether to call Hong Kong home."
Published in 1996 by Oxford University Press, 278pp.