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        "series_title": "RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊",
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        "content_text": "344\n\nBOOK REVIEWS\n\nStates. After thirty years in the insurance business, rising to be president of Continental Insurance Agency, he retired six years ago to devote himself to research on the Chinese in Hawaii.\n\nHe has put into this book, not a compendium of dry historical facts, but readable stories of the Chinese pioneers, their livelihood, their customs, and the help they received from the missionaries. Many of these stories are told interestingly as excerpts from biographies and autobiographies.\n\nAs we enjoy the blessings of multi-racial Hawaii with its richness of economic plenty and social well-being, let us remember the gnarled old men among us and their forebears who made this possible. As the Chinese say, \"When drinking water, think of the source.\"\n\n15 July 1975\n\nWILLIAM C. W. LEE\n\nFootnote: Mr. Lee was former editor of the Hawaii Chinese Journal. He is a journalism graduate of University of Missouri, had done newspaper work in Shanghai, and is now retired in Los Angeles.\n\nTHE TAIPING REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT, by JEN YU-WEN, New Haven & London, Harvard University Press, 1973, xxiii, 616, ill., US$19.50.\n\nWriting nearly 30 years ago in his biography of Tso Tsung-t'ang, a leading protagonist in the last campaigns against the Taipings, W. L. Bales commented on this period as follows:-\n\nA complete and impartial study of this great uprising and its many ramifications has not yet been made, either in a foreign language or in the Chinese. The extraordinary amount of material in Chinese that is available for such a study has doubtless been the main reason why no foreigner has attempted or is likely to attempt the sifting of such a mass for a comprehensive and critical study. As for the Chinese, they probably will make such a study in time and have in fact already done a great deal in that direction.\n\nMuch has been written on this great subject in the intervening period, but without doubt, Mr. Jen is the first scholar to produce the comprehensive and critical study mentioned in the above paragraph. He has in fact devoted a lifetime of study to the Taiping",
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        "series_title": "RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊",
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        "content_text": "134\n\nJAMES HAYES\n\nequally there is no reason to doubt that arrangements similar to those at Stanley and Shau Kei Wan were to be found there.\n\nThis account does not claim to be a comprehensive account of Hong Kong before 1841, but aims to stimulate an interest. If it reaches members of old Hong Kong village families by one reason or another, I hope it will encourage them to dig into their family chests to see if anything remains that will fill out the story.\n\n89\n\nNOTES\n\nThe material for this essay is varied. I am in considerable debt to several good friends; Ian Diamond, Tom Poon, Anthony Siu Kwok-kin, Patrick Hase, and Carl Smith among others. Nineteenth-century writers, including officials, especially those who saw Hong Kong in its early colonial years, are also valued contributors to the story. Correspondence in the possession of the Tang family of Kam Tin figures prominently. I have also been fortunate to have spoken with old persons in their 'seventies' and 'eighties' back in the 1960s. They were able to give valuable information about life in their youth, when the lifestyle and appearance of the Hong Kong villages and boat people's anchorages had changed relatively little since the 1840s, compared with the total obliteration and change all too frequently experienced in the past fifteen years. These interviews took place in a variety of places; in an old tenement in Shaukeiwan, in one of the old hillside villages there, in a resettlement estate, in a Housing Society estate for fishermen's families, on a friend's pleasure craft manned by a boatman whose family had been living on boats in Deep Bay for generations, on a working cargo boat in a typhoon shelter, in a converted stake-net fisherman's hut, in a village house overwhelmed by squatter huts, and so on. Each of these locations testified to how modern Hong Kong was dealing cards to the persons concerned and their families, swept along or thrust to one side in the maelstrom of intensive postwar development and redevelopment. To all the above contributors, I tender thanks and appreciation.\n\n1\n\nC.J.C. in Revd G.N. Wright and Thomas Allom, China Illustrated in a Series of Views (London and Paris, Fisher and Co., 1843), Vol. 1, p. 17 in my set, \"Harbour of Hong Kong”.\n\n2 Harley Farnsworth MacNair, Modern Chinese History Selected Readings (Shanghai, Commercial Press, Second edition, 1927), p. 169.\n\n3 W.L. Bales, Tso Tsungtang, Soldier and Statesman of Old China, (Shanghai, Kelly and Walsh, 1937), p. 69.\n\n4 The Letters of Queen Victoria, A Selection from Her Majesty's Correspondence between the Years 1837 and 1861, ed A.C. Benson and Viscount Esher, (London, John Murray, 1908), Vol. 1, p. 262.\n\n5 Following G.B. Endacott's History of Hong Kong (Oxford, University Press, 1958), p. 18.\n\n6\n\nSessional Papers (Papers laid before the Legislative Council of Hong Kong) 1884-85, p. 2.",
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