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Pages: 458
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-02-13 - Publisher: City University of HK Press

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“For myself, however, it is the human element, the recollected words, the remembered faces, which give life to the printed record.” James Hayes’s many wri
My Dearest Martha: The Life and Letters of Eliza Hillier
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Authors: Andrew Hillier
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-07-01 - Publisher: City University of HK Press

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“For this brief moment, the two sisters could be ‘together in heart and affection’, and through such letters bridge the distance of empire.” We often le
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Authors: Alan Smart
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-05-09 - Publisher: Hong Kong University Press

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In Hong Kong Public and Squatter Housing: Geopolitics and Informality, 1963–1985, Alan Smart and Fung Chi Keung Charles trace two decades of development of sq
More than 1001 Days and Nights of Hong Kong Internment
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Grounded at Kai Tak
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-04-13 - Publisher: Hong Kong University Press

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Set against the backdrop of regional and international post–Second World War tensions, Grounded at Kai Tak is the most comprehensive account of the complex le