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Author:
Vaudine England
Publisher:
Scribner
Date:
May 16, 2023
A new history of Hong Kong that reveals the untold stories of the diverse peoples who have made it a multicultural world metropolis--and whose freedoms are endangered today.
What The Reviewers Say
Fortune’s Bazaar: The Making of Hong Kong explicitly rejects the tale-of-two-cities approach, and this is what makes it so illuminating.
England’s impressive research into genealogy, church records, land registries and wills shows that Protected Women usually lived well and sometimes became wealthy in their own right.
Journalist England’s history of the people of Hong Kong celebrates the innovation and vigor catalyzed by the mixing of diverse cultures.
England clearly delineates her deep research into Eurasian dynasties and moves more quickly through the Japanese occupation and British handover. An ambitious swath of Hong Kong social history, notable for particular insights about Eurasian entrepreneurs and dynasties..
