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We present what we feel is a timely book on foreign communities in Hong Kong. What do Hong Kong people want the rest of the world to think about Hong Kong? Hong Kong is a cosmopolitan city with traders, businessmen, and merchants coming from almost everywhere in the world. It has a culture, which while fundamentally Chinese, has long been under foreign influence. Its people speak the English language, receive Western education, and adopt Western lifestyles. It is a place where foreigners have settled down, formed their families, and made their home. Hong Kong is a “world city,” a city that belongs to the international community, and which recognizes the contribution of local people and foreigners alike in making the place what we find today.
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Read e.g. Colin N. Crisswell, The Taipans: Hong Kong’s Merchant Princes (New York: Oxford University Press, 1981); and the four-volume series of Frank H. H. King—The Hongkong Bank in Late Imperial China, 1864–1902 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987), The Hongkong Bank in the Period of Imperialism and War, 1895–1918 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988), The Hongkong Bank between the Wars and the Bank Interned, 1919–1945 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988), The Hong Kong Bank in the Period of Development and Nationalism, 1941–1984 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991).
Andrew Coe, Eagles & Dragons: A History of Americans in China & the Origins of the American Club Hong Kong (Hong Kong: American Club, 1997); Germany in Hong Kong: 50 Years Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany, 40 Years Goethe-Institut Hong Kong, 20 Years German Chamber of Commerce (Hong Kong: German Chamber of Commerce, Goethe-Institut, Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany, 2003).
Thomas F. Ryan, The Story of a Hundred Years: The Pontifical Institute of Foreign Missions, (P.I.M.E.), in Hong Kong, 1858–1958 (Hong Kong: Catholic Truth Society, 1959).
May Holdsworth, Foreign Devils: Expatriates in Hong Kong, with additional text by Caroline Courtauld (Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 2002); Sally Blyth and Ian Wotherspoon, eds., Hong Kong Remembers (Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 1996).
Susanna Hoe, The Private Life of Old Hong Kong: Western Women in the British Colony, 1841–1941 (Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 1991).
George Wright-Nooth (with Mark Adkin), Prisoner of the Turnip Heads: Horror, Hunger and Humour in Hong Kong, 1941–1945 (London: Leo Cooper, 1994). A paperback edition was published a few years later: Prisoner of the Turnip Heads: The Fall of Hong Kong and Imprisonment by the Japanese (London: Cassell, 1999).
Jonathan Dimbleby, The Last Governor: Chris Patten & the Handover of Hong Kong (London: Little, Brown & Co., 1997); Chris Patten, East and West: The Last Governor of Hong Kong on Power, Freedom and the Future (London and Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1998).
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Chu, C.Yy. (2005). Introduction. In: Chu, C.Yy. (eds) Foreign Communities in Hong Kong, 1840s–1950s. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403980557_1
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