". . . The first original contribution to the debate on the opium war in a very long time." --Peter Wesley-Smith, author of Unequal Treaty 1898-1997

Susanna Hoe has also written Lady in the Chamber (1971); God Save the Tsar (1978); The Man Who Gave His Company Away A Biography of Ernest Bader, Founder of the Scott Bader Commonwealth (1978); The Private Life of Old Hong Kong Western Women in the British Colony 1841-1941 (1991); Chinese Footprints Exploring Women's History in China, Hong Kong and Macau (1996); (ed) Stories for Eva A Reader for Chinese Women Learning English (1997); Women at the Siege, Peking 1900 (2000); At Home in Paradise A House and Garden in Papua New Guinea (2003); Madeira Women, History, Books and Places (2004); Crete Women, History, Books and Places (2005); Watching the Flag Come Down An Englishwoman in Hong Kong 1987-97 (2007). Derek Roebuck is author, author or editor of more than forty books in ten languages on law and legal history, including the Credit and Security series (10 volumes 1973-80, with David Allan and Mary Hiscock); The Whores of War Mercenaries Today (1997, with Wilfred Burchett); the bilingual Digest of Hong Kong Law (7 volumes 1995-97); The Background of the Common Law (2nd edition 1990); Introduction to Law in the Hong Kong SAR (1996, with Ian Dobinson); and 5 volumes on the history of arbitration A Miscellany of Disputes (2000); Ancient Greek Arbitration (2001); The Charitable Arbitrator How to Mediate and Arbitrate in Lous XIV's France (2002); Roman Arbitration (2004, with Bruno de Fumichon); Early English Arbitration (2008).