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The Great Difference

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In 1898 Great Britain added to its colony at Hong Kong a 368-square-mile expanse of mountainous countryside and islands, leased from China for a term of 99 years, which became known as the New Terr...
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Price: £22.60
Pages: 293
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
Imprint: Hong Kong University Press
Publication Date: 02 October 2006
Trim Size: 8.90 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9789888139750
Format: Paperback
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"A richly textured account of this fascinating region." -- John M. Carroll, The China Journal

"What we are given here is, as always, meticulously researched, and all those who work on Hong Kong will welcome and make use of the many insights which the book contains." -- Hugh D.R. Baker, Journal of the Hong Kong Branch, Royal Asiatic Society
James Hayes is a scholar of the Hong Kong region and its people. In his thirty-two years of government service he served in the New Territories almost half the time, and was Regional Secretary New Territories, heading the District Administration there in 1985-87. His publications include Friends and Teachers Hong Kong and Its People 1953-87 (Hong Kong University Press, 1996) and The Hong Kong Region Institutions and Leadership in Town and Countryside (1977, reprinted by Hong Kong University Press, 2012).