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Sir Alexander Grantham was Governor of Hong Kong from 1947 to 1957, one of the most dramatic decades in the city's history. This was a time of rapid reconstruction after World War II and growing prosperity. But civil war and revolution in China posed new challenges to the precarious British colony and tested Grantham's skills as a diplomat. In this lively memoir, first published in 1965, Grantham describes his thirty-five years in the British colonial service, which began in Hong Kong with a government cadetship in the 1920s and ended here in 1957. A new introduction by Lord Wilson of Tillyorn, Governor of Hong Kong from 1987 to 1992, reflects on Grantham's contributions to Hong Kong. Sir Alexander Grantham became Governor of Hong Kong in 1947 and served until 1957. His term of office saw rapid reconstruction and growing prosperity after World War II. Civil war and revolution in China drove hundreds of thousands of refugees into the British colony, while tense relations between Britain and the new People's Republic gave rise to difficult and potentially explosive incidents in Hong Kong. Plans for democratic reform were quietly dropped as Grantham instead crafted an authoritarian form of government that combined strong leadership with gradual social reform - a system that lasted almost to the end of colonial rule. In this elegant memoir, first published by the Hong Kong University Press in 1965, Grantham describes his thirty-five years in the British colonial service, which began in Hong Kong in 1922 and ended here in 1957; he also held senior positions in Bermuda, Jamaica, Nigeria and the South Pacific. Only a few of Hong Kong's former governors have published anything about their terms of office here, but Grantham's stands out as the most interesting and substantial. Via Ports is an important first-hand account of the workings of Britain's

Sir Alexander Grantham became Governor of Hong Kong in 1947 and served until 1957. His term of office saw rapid reconstruction and growing prosperity after World War II. Civil war and revolution in China drove hundreds of thousands of refugees into the British colony, while tense relations between Britain and the new People's Republic gave rise to difficult and potentially explosive incidents in Hong Kong. Plans for democratic reform were quietly dropped as Grantham instead crafted an authoritarian form of government that combined strong leadership with gradual social reform - a system that lasted almost to the end of colonial rule. In this elegant memoir, first published by the Hong Kong University Press in 1965, Grantham describes his thirty-five years in the British colonial service, which began in Hong Kong in 1922 and ended here in 1957; he also held senior positions in Bermuda, Jamaica, Nigeria and the South Pacific. Only a few of Hong Kong's former governors have published anything about their terms of office here, but Grantham's stands out as the most interesting and substantial. Via Ports is an important first-hand account of the workings of Britain's colonial system. It also contains vivid, often amusing anecdotes about life behind the scenes in Government House during the long twilight of the British Empire.

Consumption forms an essential part of Hong Kong people's lives today, but until now little serious attention has been paid to it. This book fills this gap, in a fascinating way.

Economic development of Hong Kong. Population. Land area. History. Composition of the government. Public finance. Industry. Agriculture. Fisheries. Foreign trade. Employment. Transport. Electricity, gas and water. Telecommunications. Social services (education, health, social welfare, housing, media). Negotiations between Great Britain and China on the future of Hong Kong and the draft agreement initialled on 26 September 1984. Statistics on foreign trade, 1981-83. (Economische Voorlichtingsdienst)

1. Policing in Hong Kong : the early years -- 2. Policing Hong Kong police -- 3. Controlling police use of force -- 4. Beat patrol deployment in Hong Kong -- 5. Policing computer crime in Hong Kong -- 6. Assessing police investigative powers : the case of interception of communications surveillance ordinance -- 7. One country, two systems of policing : People's Republic of China Gong An vs. Hong Kong police reform.

1. Introduction : hybridity and the politics of desertion / Chan Kwok-bun and Chan Nin -- 2. The constitutive rift : Hong Kong and its politics of hybridity / Chan Nin and Chan Kwok-bun -- 3. Home but not home : four vignettes of return migrants in Hong Kong / Chan Wai-wan and Chan Kwok-bun -- 4. Blowing in the China wind : engagements with Chineseness in Hong Kong's Zhongguofeng music videos / Yiu Fai Chow and Jeroen de Kloet -- 5. Brand Hong Kong : Asia's world city as method? / Stephen Yiu-wai chu -- 6. Structural hybridization in film and television / Joseph M. Chan and Anthony Y.-H. Fung -- 7. Hybridization in the visual arts : now you see me, now you don't / Frank Vigneron -- 8. A museum of hybridity : the history of the display of art in the Public Museum of Hong Kong, and its implications for cultural identities / Eva Kit-Wah Man -- 9. From "made in Hong Kong" to "designed in Hong Kong" : searching for an identity in fashion / Wessie Ling -- 10. Danny Yung in search of hybrid matter and mind : his experimental Xiqu for Zuni Icosahedron / Jessica Yeung -- 11. Hybridity, empowerment and subversiveness in Cantopop electronic dance music / Matthew M. Chew -- 12. Hybridization and the emergence of "gay" identities in Hong Kong and in China / Day Wong -- 13. Traditionality and hybridity : a village cuisine in metropolitan Hong Kong / Chan Kwok Shing -- 14. Mix of medicines / Derrick Kit-Sing Au -- 15. Everyday hybridity and Hong Kong's Muslim youth / Paul O'Connor.