CONTENTS
PRESIDENT'S REPORT....................................xix
FRIENDS OF THE HKBRAS (UK) REPORT.................................xxxiii
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS.........................................xxxix
HON. LIBRARIAN'S REPORT.......................................xlix
ARTICLES
Andrew Abraham - The transfer of the Straits Settlements: A revisionist approach to the study of colonial law and administration..........1
Chohong Choi - Between the nine dragons and a divine wind: How Hong Kong's weather might have affected an allied invasion to retake the territory.........................................33
James Hayes - Hong Kong's Chinese associations: Their ceremonial occasions and their helpers..........................................67
Lawrence Lai, Daniel Ho and Leung Hing Fung - Survey of the Devil's Peak redoubt and Gough Battery...............................101
Eve Lam - The Royal Asiatic Society (Hong Kong Branch): The faces, the stories and the memories..................................139
Anne Ozorio - The myth of unpreparedness: The origins of anti-Japanese resistance in prewar Hong Kong...........................161
Lauren Pfister - The proto-martyr of Chinese protestants: Reconstructing the story of Ch'ea Kam-kwong............................187
Stephen Selby - Chinese archery: An unbroken tradition?...........245
Keith Stevens - The Yangzi port of Zhenjiang down the centuries...255
Dan Waters - Hong Kong in the 1950s and '60s: Reminiscences.......323
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