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A Modern History of Hong Kong
Language: en
Pages: 353
Authors: Steve Tsang
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003-12-31 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

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This major history of Hong Kong tells the remarkable story of how a cluster of remote fishing villages grew into an icon of capitalism. The story began in 1842
A Modern History of Hong Kong
Language: en
Pages: 340
Authors: Steve Yui-Sang Tsang
Categories: China
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004 - Publisher: I. B. Tauris

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From a little-known fishing community at the periphery of China, Hong Kong developed into one of the world's most spectacular and cosmopolitan metropoles after
A Concise History of Hong Kong
Language: en
Pages: 283
Authors: John M. Carroll
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-06-07 - Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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When the British occupied the tiny island of Hong Kong during the First Opium War, the Chinese empire was well into its decline, while Great Britain was already
A Borrowed Place
Language: en
Pages: 668
Authors: Frank Welsh
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1993 - Publisher: Kodansha

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About the history of Hong Kong from ancient times until 1993.
Made in Hong Kong
Language: en
Pages: 295
Authors: Peter E. Hamilton
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-01-05 - Publisher: Columbia University Press

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Between 1949 and 1997, Hong Kong transformed from a struggling British colonial outpost into a global financial capital. Made in Hong Kong delivers a new narrat