Pro Deo, Rege et Patria: For God, King and Country
Essentially a compendium of separate, true-life events, this book is centered around the life and times of the author and his forays from his native UK into foreign lands. It begins in the South Americas, graduates to a full career in Hong Kong, with the police, and culminates in the first international gathering of the author's clan. Stuart McDouall weaves an unusual tale of his involvement, either in person or as a bystander, in many arenas.
The Red Emperor: Xi Jinping and His New China
A vivid history of the relationship between Britain and China, from 1600 to the present.
The relationship between Britain and China has shaped the modern world. Chinese art, philosophy and science have had a profound effect upon British culture, while the long history of British exploitation is still bitterly remembered in China today. But how has their interaction changed over time?
Her Lotus Year: China, The Roaring Twenties and the Making of Wallis Simpson
A vivid history of the relationship between Britain and China, from 1600 to the present.
The relationship between Britain and China has shaped the modern world. Chinese art, philosophy and science have had a profound effect upon British culture, while the long history of British exploitation is still bitterly remembered in China today. But how has their interaction changed over time?
The Great Reversal
A vivid history of the relationship between Britain and China, from 1600 to the present.
The relationship between Britain and China has shaped the modern world. Chinese art, philosophy and science have had a profound effect upon British culture, while the long history of British exploitation is still bitterly remembered in China today. But how has their interaction changed over time?
Abandoned Villages of Hong Kong
Stefan Irvine's photobook, “Abandoned Villages of Hong Kong”, is an invitation to explore the forgotten corners of this vibrant city, and to discover the haunting beauty that lies hidden within its parks and islands.
Tales from a Barren Rock
Mayhem and mirth in the daily running of a pool hall, the trials of a police team targeting brothels, plus adventures with triads, murderers and rioters…
Searching for Billie: A Journalist's Quest to Understand His Mother's Past Leads Him to Discover a Vanished China
Ian Gill's first visit to Hong Kong takes an unexpected turn when he meets his Chinese mother Billie's friends, colleagues and fellow ex-prisoners of war, lifting the veil on a tumultuous past in Shanghai and Hong Kong.
From Hell, With Love
This book tells the real-life story of Nigel’s parents’ war, set against the horrors of the infamous Burma Railway, told through the pages of his father’s secret diary, which, as a prisoner of war, he had to keep hidden from his Japanese captors.
Women, Crime and the Courts: Hong Kong 1841-1941
Kwan Lai-chun was sick of being made to feel second-class by her husband's concubine; sick of her mother-in-law's endless carping about the money she spent; sick of the whole family really. Late one sticky, humid night something snapped in her - and she grabbed the meat chopper. Within minutes, three people were dead: the concubine with over 70 gashes, many of them to the bone.
My Hong Kong
How was Hong Kong perceived and described by writers from the 1950s during the last colonial period? Was it a British city or was it Chinese? The writers show how different life was for ex-pats ensconced on the Peak and leading a glitzy lifestyle compared to refugees who came pouring into the colony from mainland China and lived in dire poverty in squatter camps. Find out if that East and West ever mingled in My Hong Kong.
Sir Robert Ho Tung: Public Figure, Private Man
A nuanced perspective on Sir Robert Ho Tung, Hong Kong philanthropist.
Sir Robert Ho Tung (1862-1954) is a compelling figure in Hong Kong history. He is regularly portrayed as the colony's greatest philanthropist and wealthiest man of his day, the first Chinese to live on the Peak, and, at the end of his life, the "Grand Old Man of Hong Kong."
Fortune's Bazaar: The Making of Hong Kong
Hong Kong has always been many cities to many people: a seaport, a gateway to an empire, a place where fortunes can be dramatically made or lost, a place to disappear and reinvent oneself, and a mixing pot of diverse populations from literally everywhere around the globe.
Along the Southern Boundary: A Marine Police Officer's Frontline Account of the Vietnamese Boatpeople and their Arrival in Hong Kong
We had no jurisdiction outside of Hong Kong waters. But we could see their vessels sinking in heavy seas. It was life or death, right there. We just went. Former Marine Police officer Les Bird tells of the harrowing sea journey to Hong Kong made by tens of thousands of refugees in the years that followed the end of the Vietnam War.
Hong Kong Beat: True Stories From One of the Last British Police Officers in Colonial Hong Kong
Sex, drugs, gambling, ghosts, drinking, rugby, overseas adventures and even some police work. Hong Kong on the edge of empire was a place teeming with triads, smugglers, Chinese immigrants and Vietnamese refugees. Simon’s memoir of his time in the Hong Kong police force from the 1970s until after the 1997 handover is a fast-paced tale of his exploits.
The Confrontation
1967: Hong Kong is under the threat of Chairman Mao’s Red Guards rampaging across mainland China; thousands are fleeing to the British colony. The police face riots and bombs. Dozens are dying. All are living in uncertainty over the colony’s future - whether invasion by China or capitulation by Whitehall.
Tin Hats and Rice: A Diary of Life as a Hong Kong Prisoner of War, 1941-1945
“I can’t visualise us getting out of this, but I want to TRY to believe in a future,” wrote 23-year-old Barbara Anslow (then Redwood) in her diary on 8th December 1941, a few hours after Japan first attacked Hong Kong.
Barbara’s 1941-1945 diaries (with post-war explanations where necessary) are an invaluable source of information on the civilian experience in British Hong Kong during the second world war.
Tokkie Smith and the Colour of Rugby
Author John D’Eathe is a product of the golden years of amateur rugby. He has seen the game transform from elitist and non-inclusive into the brilliant, open Sunshine Rugby of today.
He met Tokkie Smith in 1959 in exotic Hong Kong and joined him for a decade in the waning days of the Empire and of Colonial rugby.
The Colour of the Sky After Rain
A multi-textured and revealing survey of the world’s largest country, as seen through one woman’s eyes, The Colour of the Sky After Rain offers a compelling portrait of China in an age of radical change, and charts the key staging posts in its recent, remarkable history.
Gurkha Odyssey: Campaigning for the Crown
It is 1814 and the Bengal Army of the Honourable East India Company is at war with a marauding Nepal. It is here that the British first encounter the martial spirit of an indomitable foe the Gurkha hillman from that mountainous independent land.
Seen through the prism of his own Regiment and service, General Duffell vividly recounts some of the history, character and spirit of these loyal and dedicated soldiers as well as his personal experience of campaigning with them.
King Hui: The man who owned all the opium in Hong Kong
Scandal and corruption, drugs and pirates, triads and flower boats; the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong and the Communist takeover of Canton. Peter Hui was there. He knew everybody and saw everything. This is the real story of Hong Kong, told with the rich flavours of the street.