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Price: £17.60
Pages: 344
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
Imprint: Hong Kong University Press
Series: Echoes: Classics of Hong Kong Culture and History
Publication Date:
05 October 2003
Trim Size: 8.40 X 5.50 in
ISBN: 9789622096691
Format: Paperback
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"...An excellent blend of history and ethnography. Power and Charity is one of the best books available on the everyday practice of colonialism in British Hong Kong. Sinn provides unique insights into a system that is fast becoming a distant memory. This
"Dr. Sinn's book... is essential reading for anyone wishing to understand Hong Kong society and politics in the nineteenth century." -- Ian Scott, Journal of the Hong Kong Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society
"(Dr. Sinn's) book is a fascinating and awesomely researched account of the (Chinese) community's efforts to hold its own in a foreign-dominated enclave." -- Philip Snow, Far Eastern Economic Review
"Dr. Sinn's book... is essential reading for anyone wishing to understand Hong Kong society and politics in the nineteenth century." -- Ian Scott, Journal of the Hong Kong Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society
"(Dr. Sinn's) book is a fascinating and awesomely researched account of the (Chinese) community's efforts to hold its own in a foreign-dominated enclave." -- Philip Snow, Far Eastern Economic Review
Elizabeth Sinn was appointed Honorary Associate Professor at the University of Hong Kong after she retired in 2004. Her other books include Growing with Hong Kong the Bank of East Asia 1919-1994 (1994), The Last Half Century of Chinese Overseas (1998) and Rethinking Hong Kong New Paradigms, New Perspectives (2009). She is leading the Hong Kong Memory Project to build a website for sources on memory and history, culture and heritage.