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Book excerpt from Target Hong Kong: A True Story of U.S. Navy Pilots at War by Steven K. Bailey

Published in February 2024 by Osprey/Bloomsbury in the UK.  

Green Jade  is an autobiographical account by Dorothy Neale that ends with the death of her husband in 1987. It covers their life in Hong Kong from 1929 to 1940 and subsequent years in Australia with a return to Hong Kong in 1946 for a few years. The family then returned to Australia for good.

An autobiographical account of the life of Dorothy Neale and her family, of which the years 1929 until the 1940 evacuation were spent in Hong Kong, The account continues until the death of her husband Freddie Neale in 1987.

In August 1855, 16-year-old Chaloner Alabaster left England for Hong Kong, to take up a position as a student interpreter in the China Consular Service. He would stay for almost 40 years, climbing the rungs of the service and eventually becoming consul-general of Canton. When he retired he returned to England and received a knighthood. He died in 1898. Throughout his adult life, Alabaster kept diaries.

Published by Hong Kong University Press (2010), 144pp.

Published by Hong Kong University Press (2016), 114pp. Illustrations by Janice Nicolson.

Published in 1976 by Chinese University of Hong Kong (203pp).

The inside back dust jacket states:

"Dr. Irene Cheng has written this book with the context of Hong Kong in mind. She includes appendices on Chinese customs, calendars and history that will explain to the reader not only the woman, Clara Ho Tung, but the milieu in which she worked and raised her prodigious family. The book is Dr. Cheng's tribute to her mother, who wrote her own memoirs before World War II."

Published by Hong Kong University Press (2012) 294pp.

Thistle and Bamboo: The Life and Times of Sir James Stewart Lockhart (2010) Hong Kong University Press, 261pp.

The back cover states: