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This book is an attempt to clarify the history of San On County — the broader Hong Kong area — centringon the troubled years of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It is based …
Land was always at the center of life in Hong Kong's rural New Territories: it sustained livelihoods and lineages and, for some, was a route to power. During imperial times …
“For myself, however, it is the human element, the recollected words, the remembered faces, which give life to the printed record.”James Hayes’s many writings have made a major …
Winner of the Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong's History Book Prize, 2017 In January 1980 a young police officer named John MacLennan committed suicide in his Ho Man Tin flat. His …