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        "content_text": "468\n\nSolly's book is a pleasant coffee-table read and quite humorous in places. The best aspect of it, for me, is the collection of early photographs. Some are well known, others are unusual and interesting - particularly of spectacular buildings long since demolished (critics would say destroyed). Solly's preservational instincts come through strongly here, an issue on which we are decidedly of the same mind.\n\nPETER HALLIDAY\n\nThe Development of Education in Hong Kong\n\n1841-1897\n\nGillian Bickley, The Development of Education In Hong Kong. 1841-1897, as Revealed by the Early Education Reports of the Hong Kong Government, 1848-1896, Hong Kong: Proverse Hong Kong, 633 pages, with a Preface by Edward Ho, a Foreword by Matthew Cheung, an Introduction by Ruth Hayhoe and a Commentary by Verner Bickley. From the Preface: 'Following the return of Hong Kong to China, there has been increasing interest in Hong Kong's heritage. There is also increasing interest in the history of Hong Kong. The Development of Education in Hong Kong, 1841-1897. as Revealed by the Early Education Reports of the Hong Kong Government, 1848-1896 is a contribution towards the conservation and understanding of one aspect of Hong Kong's heritage while also providing a resource for the study of Hong Kong history. This book, sponsored by the Council of the Lord Wilson Heritage Trust, presents as part of Hong Kong's heritage the official record of the early educational work of the British Hong Kong administration, in place from 1841 to 1897. The Reports now published together in sequence, corrected and edited, for the first time, give insight into the development of Hong Kong society, particularly of course its educational system and the administration of education, but also the relationships between and among the different groups of people living in Hong Kong, with their varying aspirations and different ways of living and thinking.",
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        "content_text": "NOTES AND QUERIES\n\nPhotos from the HKBRAS trip to Canton, October, 2003..... 163\n\nHKBRAS visit to Macau on 26th October 2003 to see an exhibition of George Smirnoff's watercolours of Macau 183\n\nMichael Gillam - The making of Cornell Plant the pilot 185\n\nDavid Mahoney - The history of the Belilios Star: Hong Kong's own life-saving medal .... 201\n\nKeith Stevens - Yet another angle on the Chinese Labour Corps in France, 1918\n\nDan Waters - The Middlesex (\"Tyndareus') Stone\n\nBOOK REVIEWS 205\n\n... 207\n\nFull Circle: A Life with Hong Kong and China, Ruth Hayhoe, Introduction by Mark Bray and Ora Kwo, Comparative Education Research Centre, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 2004 (reviewed by Gillian Bickley) 213\n\nThe Silk Road, Art and History, Jonathan Tucker, Philip Wilson Publishers, 2003 (reviewed by Elizabeth Teather)....... 217\n\nOBITUARY\n\nIan Diamond, 1924-2004 XV 225\n\nPage 15\n\nPage 16",
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        "content_text": "213\n\nBOOK REVIEWS\n\nFull Circle: A Life with Hong Kong and China\n\nRuth Hayhoe\n\nIntroduction by Mark Bray and Ora Kwo\n\nComparative Education Research Centre, The University of Hong Kong\n\nHong Kong, 200\n\nISBN 962 8093 31,2\n\n276pp.\n\nHK$200/US$32\n\nFew westerners in history have become as knowledgeably inculturated into respect for China and Chinese ways as Ruth Hayhoe has, or achieved her high level of trilingual Chinese skills.\n\nCenturies ago, the Jesuits adopted Chinese ways in order to convert China to Roman Catholicism. Some wore Chinese clothes and traveled in state like Confucian scholar-administrators, borne in palanquins preceded by attendants carrying their books. In the end, the Roman hierarchy thought they had gone too far, and the Order was suppressed.\n\nHayhoe wears the occasional mandarin collar, has written or edited several books and numerous articles, which could well be borne in state, and for just over four years, as a senior member of the educational hierarchy, enjoyed an official car in Hong Kong. But her avowed purpose is sometimes the opposite of that which compelled the Jesuits in the past. She wishes to bring Chinese knowledge (pp. 126, 251) -- and 'Asian ways of knowing' (pp. 20, 239) -- to the rest of the world. At other times, she looks for an equal balance; for, ‘an ideal set of relations between China and western countries, characterised by mutuality and ordered around the values of autonomy, equity, solidarity and participation.' (p. 117)\n\nThis Autobiography gives a description of how Hayhoe's inculturation took place and also expresses the illumination she found when writing this account of selected strata of her life. Although she tells us that when she left Canada for her first visit to Hong Kong, in June 1967, 'China meant nearly nothing to me' (p. 64), elsewhere she explains that, as she wrote this book, she came to feel that all her",
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        "content_text": "217\n\nopportunity to turn knowledge into action? (pp. 138, 131) Will China reaffirm her feeling of acceptance by offering her some new task? Whatever the case, readers of this book, impressed by Ruth Hayhoe's sincerity and passion, will all, surely, wish the writer of this revealing autobiography all things good.\n\nGILLIAN BICKLEY\n\nJonathan Tucker, The Silk Road, Art and History, 2003. Philip Wilson Publishers, 7 Deane House, 27 Greenwood Place, London NW5 1LB. ISBN 0 85667 546 6. 391pp, index, bibliography, maps, 437 plates.\n\nWhy is the term 'the Silk Road' so evocative? Is it because it can be seen as a metaphor for the passage of human history in all its magnificence, cruelty and sheer grit? The patterns of trade that flourished for about fifteen hundred years along the eight thousand kilometre network of routes known today as the Silk Road can be dated back to the time of the Han Emperor Wudi (reigned 141-87 BCE). For strategic reasons, Wudi wanted to set up an alliance against the nomadic Xiongnu tribes with the Yuezhi, who had settled in the area centred on the Hindu Kush. After more than ten years, Zhang Qian, his first emissary to the Yuezhi, brought back news of lands to the far west, but it was hearing of the magnificent 'blood sweating horses' of Ferghana that made Wudi determined to establish links with Central Asia. In 101 BCE a Chinese army reached Ferghana, seized many horses and established suzerainty - much contested, however, for the next few centuries - over territory as far west as the Pamirs. The routes that opened up between China and the West became known as the Silk Road, and they were to become the main land artery along which travelled not only traded goods but also the ideas and technology of east and west.\n\nThose who used the Silk Road were driven by the search for profit, enlightenment, conquest, refuge, by missionary zeal, or by curiosity about exotic lands. Their quests faced the contingencies of physical calamities, for the regions they traversed were, and remain, prone to floods, droughts, storms, extremes of heat and cold, and earthquakes. It is likely that along it, too, from the east, came the Black Death, which brought calamity to medieval Europe.\n\nWhere travellers paused to rest arose tiny places such as forts and",
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