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| Author | : David Bellis |
| Publisher | : Gwulo |
| Total Pages | : 113 |
| Release | : 2018-12-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9887827614 |
David puts more of his favourite old Hong Kong photos under the magnifying glass, revealing the photos’ secrets, and uncovering their hidden stories. Flying Italian miners (p. 107), disembodied feet (p. 13), and the most beautiful woman you’ll never see (p. 17) are just a few of the surprises in store for you.
| Author | : David Bellis |
| Publisher | : Gwulo |
| Total Pages | : 114 |
| Release | : 2020-12-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9887827630 |
Revisit old Hong Kong through this book’s collection of rare photos, many of them over 100 years old. Then join David to explore the photos’ details, and so discover their hidden stories: the women who toiled up the Peak’s slopes each day, carrying heavy loads of bricks and coal on their shoulders, buried treasure still waiting to be found, Kowloon’s vanishing hills, and many more. David runs the award-winning local history website Gwulo, home to over 25,000 photos of old Hong Kong.
| Author | : David Bellis |
| Publisher | : Gwulo |
| Total Pages | : 113 |
| Release | : 2017-12-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9887827606 |
Not your typical photo book! David Bellis, founder of the popular local history website Gwulo, shows you a selection of his favourite photos of old Hong Kong. So far, so familiar. But then he takes you on a deep dive to discover and understand the photos’ most minute and revealing details. Plague-ridden rats (pg. 7), flapper hats (pg. 56), and chocolates (pg. 73) are just a few of the surprising clues you’ll investigate. Finally, David helps you piece the clues together to uncover the photos’ hidden stories.
| Author | : David Bellis |
| Publisher | : Gwulo |
| Total Pages | : 113 |
| Release | : 2019-12-16 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9887827622 |
Grab your flippers, mask, and magnifying glass – Volume 3 is full of old photos of people in, on, under, and around Hong Kong’s famous harbour. Many of the photos are published for the first time, and although they’re old, they are sharp and packed with detail. Join David in uncovering the photos’ secrets, deciphering their stories, and meeting the people of old Hong Kong. David runs the award-winning local history website Gwulo, home to over 20,000 photos of old Hong Kong.
| Author | : Luke Gartlan |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 383 |
| Release | : 2019-08-26 |
| Genre | : Photography |
| ISBN | : 9004300805 |
A Career of Japan is the first study of one of the major photographers and personalities of nineteenth-century Japan. Baron Raimund von Stillfried was the most important foreign-born photographer of the Meiji era and one of the first globally active photographers of his generation. Based on extensive new primary sources and unpublished documents from archives around the world, this book examines von Stillfried’s significance as a cultural mediator between Japan and Central Europe. Awarded the 2nd Professor Josef Kreiner Hosei University Award for International Japanese Studies.
| Author | : MAY. HOLDSWORTH |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 340 |
| Release | : 2020-08-17 |
| Genre | : Crime |
| ISBN | : 9789888528127 |
Standing close together in a compound overlooking Victoria Harbor, the Central Police Station, Central Magistracy, and Victoria Jail were a bastion of British colonial power and a symbol of security, law, and punishment. The magistracy administered a form of cheap summary justice heavily adapted to the needs of colonial Hong Kong, which led to well over a million predominantly Chinese people being sentenced between 1841 and 1941. In the overcrowded and unsanitary Victoria Jail, the regime vacillated uneasily between a belief in harsh deterrent punishment and an optimistic faith in reform and rehabilitation. Today, those monumental buildings still stand, forming Hong Kong's "Tai Kwun" complex, an international arts and entertainment hub. Richly illustrated and informed by a wealth of sources, Crime, Justice, and Punishment in Colonial Hong Kong revisits the Tai Kwun complex's past by offering a vivid account of those three institutions from 1841 to the late twentieth century and telling the stories of people whose lives intersected with them, including captains, superintendents, and magistrates, jailers and constables, thieves and ruffians, hawkers and street boys, down-and-outs, and prostitutes, gamblers, debtors, and beggars--the guilty as well as the innocent.
| Author | : James O'Reilly |
| Publisher | : Travelers' Tales |
| Total Pages | : 448 |
| Release | : 1996 |
| Genre | : Travel |
| ISBN | : 9781885211033 |
"We've collected useful and memorable stories to produce the kind of sampler we've always wanted to read before setting out. These stories will show you a spectrum of experiences to be had or avoided in Hong Kong"--Back cover
| Author | : Leo Ou-fan Lee |
| Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
| Total Pages | : 331 |
| Release | : 2010-05-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0674046897 |
Hong Kong is perched on the fault line between China and the West, a Special Administrative Region of the PRC. Leo Ou-fan Lee offers an insiderÕs view of Hong Kong, capturing the history and culture that make his densely packed home city so different from its generic neighbors. The search for an indigenous Hong Kong takes Lee to the wet markets and corner bookshops of congested Mong Kok, remote fishing villages and mountainside temples, teahouses and noodle stalls, Cantonese opera and Cantopop. But he also finds the ÒrealÓ Hong Kong in a maze of interconnected shopping malls, a jungle of high-rise residential towers, and the neon glow of Chinese-owned skyscrapers in the Central Business District, where land development, global trade, capital accumulation, consumerism, and free-market competition trump every valueÑexcept family. Lee illuminates the relationship between Hong KongÕs geography and its colonial experience, revisiting colonial life on the secluded Peak, in the opium-filled godowns along the harborfront, and in crowded, plague-infested tenements. He examines, with a criticÕs eye, the ÒHong Kong storyÓ in film and fiction: romance in the bars and brothels of Wan Chai, crime in the walled city of Kowloon, ennui on the eve of the 1997 handover. Whether viewed from Tsing Yi Bridge or the deck of the Star Ferry, from Victoria Peak or Lion Rock, Hong Kong sparkles here in all its multifaceted complexity, a city forever between worlds.
| Author | : Ching Kwan Lee |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 139 |
| Release | : 2022-09-08 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1108906648 |
How did Hong Kong transform itself from a 'shoppers' and capitalists' paradise' into a 'city of protests' at the frontline of a global anti-China backlash? CK Lee situates the post-1997 China–Hong Kong contestation in the broader context of 'global China.' Beijing deploys a bundle of power mechanisms – economic statecraft, patron-clientelism, and symbolic domination – around the world, including Hong Kong. This Chinese power project triggers a variety of countermovements from Asia to Africa, ranging from acquiescence and adaptation to appropriation and resistance. In Hong Kong, reactions against the totality of Chinese power have taken the form of eventful protests, which, over two decades, have broadened into a momentous decolonization struggle. More than an ideological conflict between a liberal capitalist democratizing city and its Communist authoritarian sovereign, the Hong Kong story, stunning and singular in its many peculiarities, offers lessons about China as a global force. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
| Author | : Richard J. Garrett |
| Publisher | : Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Studies |
| Total Pages | : 220 |
| Release | : 2018-03-07 |
| Genre | : Hong Kong (China) |
| ISBN | : 9789887792703 |
The Peak is Hong Kongs top residential district, where property prices are as high as the altitude. How did it become an exclusive enclave in the bustling business centre of 19th-century Asia? The British wanted relief from summer heat and the Peak was the obvious place to escape it. When the Governor adopted Mountain Lodge as a summer getaway, development accelerated and the opening of the Peak Tram in 1888 made access easier. Gradually a community developed and a church, a club and a school were established. This book describes how the now-popular tourist area developed over time and adapted as needs changed.
