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Price: £20.00
Pages: 252
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
Imprint: Hong Kong University Press
Series: Echoes: Classics of Hong Kong Culture and History
Publication Date:
20 May 2005
Trim Size: 8.38 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9789622096882
Format: Paperback
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"This classic work in Hong Kong historiography is still indispensable to for scholars. It is fascinating reading for the general public also." -- Jung-fang Tsai, University of Charleston
"'Where are the Chinese?' was a common reaction to earlier works on Hong Kong history that tended to focus on governors and the colonial administration. Carl Smith, by putting the Chinese of all classes, women and men, ordinary and extraordinary, back int
"'Where are the Chinese?' was a common reaction to earlier works on Hong Kong history that tended to focus on governors and the colonial administration. Carl Smith, by putting the Chinese of all classes, women and men, ordinary and extraordinary, back int
Carl T. Smith (1918-2008) graduated from Union Theological Seminary with a master's degree in divinity in 1943. He came to Hong Kong as a missionary in 1960 and spent the next 23 years teaching theology, finally at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. After his retirement in 1983, he has devoted himself to his researches into Hong Kong and China Coast history.