RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1990 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/d79206299 CONTENTS PRESIDENT'S REPORT OBITUARY: HUGH GIBB HON. AUDITORS' REPORT vii xiv xvii HON. LIBRARIAN'S REPORT. ARTICLES: J.W. Hayes — The Old Popular Culture of China and Its Contribution to Stability in Tsuen Wan C.C. Choi Studies on Hong Kong Jiao Festivals David Wilmshurst The 'Syrian Brilliant Teaching' Chinese Local Semi-Divine Deities Keith G. Stevens P.H. Munro-Faure China on the Brink of War Fred Dagenais John Fryer's Early Years in China: First Impressions of Hong Kong and the Chinese People.. Sau Y. Chan The Offering to the White Tiger in Cantonese Opera Lauren F. Pfister Clues to the Life and Academic Achievements of one of the Most Famous Nineteenth Century European Sinologists James Legge (AD 1815-1897). Dan Waters Hong Kong Hongs with Long Histories and British Connections NOTES AND QUERIES: P.H. Hase Ta Kwu Ling, Wong Pui Ling and the Kim Hau Bridges.. P.H. Hase A Village War in Sham Chun P.H. Hase Sha Tau Kok in 1853 Keith G. Stevens The Buddha, the Heavenly True Warrior .. Keith G. Stevens Altar Images from Hunan Keith G. Stevens T'i-shen: A Substitute for a Person. Riden Sung Chi-Pui – The Making of a Husk-grinder.. H.J.W. Chetwynd-Chatwin – The British Merchantman "Norna" Geoffrey Roper Report on Visit to Tai Hang Fire Dragon Dance, Mid Autumn Festival 1992. Dan Waters Sojourners in Xiamen: Notes on the RAS Visit. BOOK REVIEWS 1 26 44 75 89 146 169 180 2 219 257 265 281 297 298 299 302 303 307 309 314 XX ================================================================================ RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1998 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/1g05n0794 Sheilah Hamilton - The District Watch Force ... 199 NOTES AND QUERIES Hong Kong (From the Notes of a Russian Traveller), translation of an article written by Iosif Antonovich Goshkevich in 1871.... 229 Hong Kong, translation from a book chapter written by Ivan Alexandrovich Goncharov in 1853 237 ...... 247 R.G. Horsnell - The Story of Stanley Fort 257 R.G. Horsnell - The Story of Gun Club Hill Barracks ..... 265 B.C. Fawcett - First World War Labour Corps Cemeteries in Flanders 281 Keith Stevens - The American Soldier of Fortune Frederick Townsend Ward: Honoured and Revered by the Chinese with a Memorial Temple 285 Ronald Bishop Smith - Sir Ralph Moor and the 'Benin' Cannon of the British Museum and the Royal Armouries 293 Photographs from the Hong Kong 1906 Typhoon contributed by Victoria Brown 297 Dan Waters - Arnold Graham, 1905 - 1996. 305 Translated letter from the Bishop of the Philippines to the King of Spain dated 1584 contributed by Robin M. Bridge.............. 315 Geoffrey W. Roper - The Drunken Dragon Dance and the Tam Kong (Tam Kung) Festival: Notes on the RAS HK Visit to Macau, May 1997 .. 323 Robert Nield - Bits of Broken China: The RAS Visit to North-east China in Search of Colonial Remnants, 1999 329 viii ================================================================================