Footprints Left In Hong Kong

Author : Iain Leighton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1659700809

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Footprints Left in Hong Kong by Iain Leighton Pdf

Iain Leighton's first book describes British expatriate life in Hong Kong in the 1950s and 1960s, based on his memories. There are over 30 chapters, covering subjects like the British military presence; the riots of 1966 and 1967; recreational clubs; British schools; typhoons; weekends in the New Territories; Chinese customs and superstitions and visits to beaches for picnics. Iain Leighton describes his memories from this time: "Dire poverty for the refugees affected me as a child, I was aware of acute poverty for the Chinese refugees when I was a boy. Despite the relatively small number of expats (circa 60,000), the atmosphere remained very British and colonial. Colonial expat families were well dressed and attending church and Sunday school was normal. People in their thousands took jobs as civil servants with the Hong Kong Government to get away from the U.K. The U.K. still had food rationing for about seven years post-1945. Hong Kong, on the other hand, never had food rationing. Salaries were higher than in the U.K.; living in Hong Kong was cheap compared to dismal, tired U.K. Hong Kong was a wonderful place to live and bring up your children."

Author : Malcolm Jack
Publisher : Austin Macauley Publishers
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2022-07-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781398457157

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My Hong Kong by Malcolm Jack Pdf

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.

Author : S. Barter
Publisher : Springer
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137594303

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Explaining the Genetic Footprints of Catholic and Protestant Colonizers by S. Barter Pdf

This book points out a novel pattern in colonial intimacy - that Catholic colonizers tended to leave behind significant mixed communities while Protestant colonizers were more likely to police relations with local women. The varied genetic footprints of Catholic and Protestant colonizers, while subject to some exceptions, holds across world regions and over time. Having demonstrated that this pattern exists, this book then seeks to explain it, looking to religious institutions, political capacity, and ideas of nation and race.

Author : Farid Karimipour,Sabine Storandt
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2022-05-18
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783031062452

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Web and Wireless Geographical Information Systems by Farid Karimipour,Sabine Storandt Pdf

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th International Symposium on Web and Wireless Geographical Information Systems, W2GIS 2022, held in Konstanz, Germany, in April 2022. The 7 full papers presented together with 6 short papers in the volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 16 submissions. The papers cover topics that range from mobile GIS and Location-Based Services to Spatial Information Retrieval and Wireless Sensor Networks.

Author : Man Ho Au,Siu Ming Yiu,Jin Li,Xiapu Luo,Cong Wang,Aniello Castiglione,Kamil Kluczniak
Publisher : Springer
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-18
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783030027445

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Network and System Security by Man Ho Au,Siu Ming Yiu,Jin Li,Xiapu Luo,Cong Wang,Aniello Castiglione,Kamil Kluczniak Pdf

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Network and System Security, NSS 2018, held in Hong Kong, China, in August 2018. The 26 revised full papers and 9 short papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 88 initial submissions. The papers cover a wide range of topics in the field, including blockchain, mobile security, applied cryptography, authentication, biometrics, IoT, privacy, and education.

Author : Yuting Wang
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004437739

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Chinese in Dubai by Yuting Wang Pdf

Chinese in Dubai tells the fascinating story of the Chinese in the most prominent global city of the Arabian Gulf—their history, struggles and contributions—against the backdrop of a shifting global political economic order with the rise of China.

Author : Susanna Hoe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105020837428

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Chinese Footprints by Susanna Hoe Pdf

The writing of history used to concentrate on narrative, analysis or theory. The historian stayed out of sight. This book is part of a more recent trend. Here, the author discusses her relationship to her material, the processes of research and writing, and her characters. She does so by exploring and sometimes comparing, the lives of Chinese and western women who have lived in China, Hong Kong and Macau, and links them not only to herself but also to contemporary women's issues, human rights and colonialism. This book is about the practice of history. The characters include 1930's civil and women rights campaigners Shi Liang, China's Minister of Justice 1949 to 1959, Agnes Smedley and Stella Benson, autobiographical writer Xiao Hong, revolutionary Soong Ching Ling, traveller Ella Maillart, philanthropist Clara Ho Tung, and Clara Elliot, who was part of the story of Hong Kong's cession to Britain in 1841. --Publisher's description.

Author : Phillip Church
Publisher : Fulton Books, Inc.
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781639851157

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The Hong Kong Gambit by Phillip Church Pdf

Perhaps like this author you have a retirement account with savings invested in a diversified portfolio of stocks and bonds across industry sectors and financial markets. At the encouragement of your financial advisor, you may hold some international securities, including assets in emerging market economies like Hong Kong, which has long been one of the investment darlings of U.S. mutual fund managers. You would not be happy to learn, I suspect, that some of your foreign investment savings might be commingled with overseas money generated from illicit commerce, in particular Asian sex trafficking. That's the discovery of three Americans on vacation in Asia who get caught up in, and find themselves forced to thwart, a Hong Kong-based Chinese crime syndicate scheme to take control of Thailand's economy. The Hong Kong Gambit tells a fictional story based on the very real world of international illicit human trafficking that destroys lives of young girls and threatens the economic stability and progress of countries like Thailand.

Author : Stephen WK Chiu,Kaxton YK Siu
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789811657078

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Hong Kong Society by Stephen WK Chiu,Kaxton YK Siu Pdf

This book borrows the concept of “high-definition” from digital broadcasting to highlight our unique approach to Hong Kong society, which gives a sharper image than analyses. It intends to highlight contrasts with many common and taken-for-granted stories, myths and representations of Hong Kong— which often presented with a low level of detail, lacking proper connections between grounded personal experiences and the macro social context. With chapters covering various salient dimensions of Hong Kong’s society, including migration, economy, inequality, identity and social movements, our “high-definition” approach presents images with high enough “resolution” to match multiple layers of experiences from walks of life of Hong Kong people, contributing to an understanding of how global transformation impacts local people’s experiences, as well as Hong Kong’s significance in the regional and global system.

Author : May Holdsworth
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9789888754243

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Sir Robert Ho Tung by May Holdsworth Pdf

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 Hongkong’. The illegitimate son of a Chinese mother and European father, he was highly sensitive about his mixed heritage though he consistently made the most of his fate. He was a man perfectly in tune with his place and time, his success driven as much by his entrepreneurial talents as by his being Eurasian. This book shows him in all his immense variety—clerk with the Imperial Maritime Customs, chief compradore of Jardine Matheson, financial wizard, husband and lover, patriarch of a large family of five sons and eight daughters, loyal British subject but also, paradoxically, Chinese patriot. China’s president Yuan Shikai awarded him the Order of the Excellent Crop, and King George V knighted him. May Holdsworth’s thoughtful and deftly written account of the life is the first full-length biography in English. Given unique and unprecedented access to family and personal papers, including letters, diaries, notes, and photographs, she offers a nuanced perspective on a public but also private man. Her book will be a rich resource for historians and general readers interested in the men and women who played a key part in the shaping of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Hong Kong. ‘With painstaking research using an invaluable cache of private letters, family photographs, and other rarely seen archival materials, May Holdsworth has produced a definitive English-language biography of Hong Kong’s Grand Old Man, Sir Robert Ho Tung, as both public figure and private man. A must-read for anyone interested in Hong Kong history.’ —Emma J. Teng, Massachusetts Institute of Technology ‘This biography of Sir Robert Ho Tung is well written, well organized, and based on original unpublished documentary sources that have not been previously utilized. Though of a scholarly nature, it is eminently readable and should appeal to a broad readership, including lovers of Hong Kong history.’ —Edward J. M. Rhoads, University of Texas at Austin

Author : Brian C.H. Fong,Tai-Lok Lui
Publisher : Springer
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319513737

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Hong Kong 20 Years after the Handover by Brian C.H. Fong,Tai-Lok Lui Pdf

This book examines the socio-political conflicts which have arisen since Hong Kong’s return to China and confronts the fundamental problems in the design of the One Country, Two Systems (OCTS) Model. It considers not only the issue of democratization, but also the institutional fractures in the executive-dominant political system and the disconnection between the executive and the legislature. It describes the drastic changes which have affected social mobilization and political activism in Hong Kong, as well as the pattern of interaction between the government and civil society. This edited volume brings together a team of cutting-edge researchers to examine the operation of the One Country, Two Systems (OCTS) Model in Hong Kong over the past 20 years. The discussion and analysis offered by the contributors will cast light on social and political tensions and conflicts that will continue to unfold in the coming years. This timely account, published on the 20th anniversary of the handover, will be a valuable read for students and scholars of Chinese and East Asian studies.

Author : Shiu-ying Hu
Publisher : Chinese University Press
Page : 940 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9629962292

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Food Plants of China by Shiu-ying Hu Pdf

The food plants of an area provide the material basis for the survival of its population, and furnish inspiring stimuli for cultural development. There are two parts in this book. Part 1 introduces the cultural aspects of Chinese food plants and the spread of Chinese culinary culture to the world. It also describes how the botanical and cultural information was acquired; what plants have been selected by the Chinese people for food; how these foodstuffs are produced, preserved, and prepared; and what the western societies can learn from Chinese practices. Part 2 provides the botanical identification of the plant kingdom for the esculents used in China as food and/or as beverage. The plants are illustrated with line drawings or composite photographic plates. This book is useful not only as a text for general reading, but also as a work reference. Naturally, it would be a useful addition to the general collection of any library.

Author : Emilio Garcia,Brenda Vale,Robert Vale
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-24
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9783030777838

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Collapsing Gracefully: Making a Built Environment that is Fit for the Future by Emilio Garcia,Brenda Vale,Robert Vale Pdf

This innovative book investigates the concept of collapse in terms of our built environment, exploring the future transition of modern cities towards scenarios very different from the current promises of progress and development. This is not a book about the end of the world and hopeless apocalyptic scenarios. It is about understanding change in how and where we live. Collapse is inevitable, but in the built environment collapse could imply a manageable situation, an opportunity for change or a devastating reality. Collapsing gracefully means that there might be better ways to coexist with collapse if we learn more about it and commit to rebuild our civilisations in ways that avoid its worst effects. This book uses a wide range of practical examples to study critical changes in the built environment, to contextualise and visualise what collapse looks like, to see if it is possible to buffer its effects in places already collapsing and to propose ways to develop greater resilience. The book challenges all agents and institutions in modern cities, their designers and planners as well as their residents and users to think differently about built environment so as to ease our coexistence with collapse and not contribute to its causes. .

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 738 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Asia
ISBN : UOM:39015053666148

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Summary of World Broadcasts by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jiu Shi
Publisher : Funstory
Page : 639 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781648975325

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Farming With Sisters by Jiu Shi Pdf

My sister and sister are here to farm, and my sister is here to grow flax.