Everything tagged: Book

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:

Published by Oxford University Press in 1994, with 266pp.

An anthology selected and edited by Barbara-Sue White. On the back cover, it states:

A collection of 100 black and white photographs of Hong Kong, followed by a commentary for each photograph in the second part of the book. The photographs are divided into seven chapters: I. What one sees first; II. Interest; III. Around the coast; IV. Beauty; V. Commerce and industry; VI. People; and VII. In the New Territories. There is an additional section on photography.

The book is available on Google Books, titled An Anglo-Chinese Calendar, Volume 2. It is a compilation of the individual publications for years 1845 to 1851 inclusive.

Austin Coates was engaged in the 1970s to write a history of the Hong Kong Electric Company. He credits Raymond Smith, a former engineer who had served the company for many years, with providing lots of useful information to 'feed the book'.

Below is an extract from his account of the 1937 typhoon:

This is a large book, showing a collection of maps and aerial photos of Hong Kong over the years. It has been a trusty companion whenever I've been trying to work out the location of an old photograph or an old building for Gwulo, and even though an increasing number of old Hong Kong maps are available online, I still reach for this book on a regular basis.

The book places the story of HMS Tamar into the larger pictures of the expansion and decline of the British Empire and, in the post-war period, of the after effects of that empire, especially in the post-colonial era. It also places the Tamar in the context of a unique and little studied, 50-year experiment in which the Royal Navy designed and operated troopships as commissioned warships, and developed early systems of amphibious warfare that were not subsequently built upon.