Hong Kong | Asian History Books

Urban Gardening: A Hong Kong Gardener’s Journal

March 22, 2015

Living in a crowded city need not mean uprooting one’s connection with the earth. City gardens are proliferating at a healthy rate, and plants can be enjoyed on a rooftop, balcony, terrace, or a simple window sill. There are, of course, special difficulties to gardening in cities: special solutions are needed to solve these problems. […]
TO FREEDOM THROUGH CHINA: Escaping From Japanese-Occupied Hong Kong

March 22, 2015

This is the thrilling story of how the author with two colleagues broke out of their POW camp in Hong Kong and made their way through Japanese lines into the vast expanse of China. Capture meant almost certain torture and lingering slow death. Their adventures make for spellbinding suspense. Once through Japanese lines their troubles […]
Underground Front – The Chinese Communist Party in Hong Kong

March 22, 2015

Underground Front is a pioneering examination of the role that the Chinese Communist Party has played in Hong Kong since the creation of the Party in 1921, through to the present day. This book brings events right up to date and includes the results of a survey about the Hong Kong public’s attitude towards the […]
Perfidious Albion: The Abandonment of Hong Kong

March 22, 2015

When Britain agreed to “restore” Hong Kong to the People’s Republic of China in 1984, British spokesmen explained that the Communist Chinese were reforming and would allow Hong Kong to continue its dynamic capitalist ways. But the brutal suppression of the Chinese student protest in Tiananmen Square in 1989 made it clear that totalitarian Beijing […]
Field Guide to Hong Kong Mangroves

March 22, 2015

This field guide is a companion publication of Hong Kong Mangroves. It serves three purposes: 1. To provide maps indicating where mangrove plants and animals can be found. 2. To provide teachers, students and parents with tips of do’s and don’ts when they collect field data, and the safe steps for them to follow. 3. […]
The Taipans: Hong Kong’s Merchant Princes (Oxford Paperbacks)

March 22, 2015

The Taipans is a popular account of Hong Kong’s merchant princes from the origins of the first trading houses in eighteenth-century Canton and Macau to the beginning of the First World War. The early taipans, hard-headed business men from Britain, the USA, and India, built up immense fortunes from the opium trade. In the 1830s […]
Proverbs For Kids With Pictures of Hong Kong by Sheldon Patnett

March 22, 2015

Chinese Quotes And Proverbs For Kids features 12 beautiful scenic and close-up pictures of Hong Kong photographed by Sheldon Patnett. This compilation of proverbs and quotes is carefully selected to be easily discussed in classrooms or explained by parents to children between the ages of 6 and 14. The book is ideal for introducing children […]
A Business in Risk: Jardine Matheson and the Hong Kong Trading Industry

March 22, 2015

Jardine Matheson & Company is perhaps best known through James Clavell’s Taipan. The firm played an important role in the founding of Hong Kong, but its growth in the 20th century, through acquisition and divestiture, has never been adequately explored until now. This is not only the first study of Jardine Matheson to systematically uncover […]
The Dragon and the Crown: Hong Kong Memoirs (Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Studies)

March 22, 2015

While Hong Kong’s spectacular economic growth and political development have been well documented, the social and cultural lives of the ordinary people swept up in the changes have not found a significant voice. Through the personal experiences of Stanley Kwan and those around him, this book gives such a voice to people whose lives have […]
Water Margin: Hong Kong’s Link to the Sea

March 22, 2015

Water Margin: Hong Kong’s Link to the Sea is an enchanting exploration of the human and natural geography of Hong Kong’s coastline and waters. The volume opens with Hong Kong’s early history as a wild coastal frontier ( haijiang) of imperial China and follows the social and cultural development of its maritime border zone. During […]

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