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East River Column
Language: en
Pages: 209
Authors: Sui-jeung Chan 陳瑞璋
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-06-01 - Publisher: Hong Kong University Press

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Hong Kong's story in the Second World War has been predominantly told as a story of the British forces and their defeat on Christmas Day 1941. But there is anot
War and Revolution in South China
Language: en
Pages: 219
Authors: Edward J. M. Rhoads
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-09-10 - Publisher: Hong Kong University Press

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In War and Revolution in South China, Edward Rhoads recounts his childhood and early teenage years during the Sino-Japanese War and the early postwar years. Rho
Watching Over Hong Kong
Language: en
Pages: 243
Authors: Sheilah E. Hamilton
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-06-01 - Publisher: Hong Kong University Press

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In this pioneering study, Sheilah Hamilton shows that, from the earliest days of British rule, the colonial administration introduced harsh legislation to contr
A Death in Hong Kong: The MacLennan Case of 1980 and the Suppression of a Scandal (2nd Edition)
Language: en
Pages: 552
Authors: Nigel Collett
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: - Publisher: City University of HK Press

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In January 1980, a young police officer named John MacLennan committed suicide in his Ho Man Tin flat. His death came mere hours before he was to be arrested fo