RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1979
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ORDINARY LOCAL MEMBERS

DE BURE, Mrs. Ursula, 550 Victoria Road, Block 29, Floor 30, HONG KONG.

DE SILVA, Ms. Minette, Dept. of Architecture, University of Hong Kong, HONG KONG.

DER, The Rev. E. B.,

Holy Trinity Church,

135 Ma Tau Chung Road,

KOWLOON.

DIAMOND, Mr. A. L.,

Public Records Office of Hong Kong,

2 Murray Road, HONG KONG.

DOHERTY, Ms. Kathleen Rose,

11 Coombe Road,

Flat 1A,

HONG KONG.

DOLFIN, Mr. John, III, 155 Argyle Street, KOWLOON.

DRAKEFORD, Mr. Louis S., 124 Miles Clearwater Bay Road, KOWLOON.

DYER, Mrs. C. E., 233 Prince's Building, HONG KONG.

ELSOM, Mr. Graham, J. B., G.P.O. Box 11508, HONG KONG.

EVANS, Prof. D. M. E., School of Law, University of Hong Kong, HONG KONG.

EVANS, Mr. C. J., Flat 9.

8 Mansfield Road, The Peak,

HONG KONG.

FABRY, Mr. K. G., Rural Retreat, Taipo Kau, NEW TERRITORIES.

FABRY, Mrs. R. G., Rural Retreat,

Taipo Kau,

NEW TERRITORIES.

FAN, Mr. Jack F. S., 1-25 Shu Kuk Street,

May Lun Apartment 14/F, North Point,

HONG KONG

FITZPATRICK, Mr. John,

c/o Jardine Matheson & Co. Ltd. World Trade Centre, 30/F, Causeway Bay,

HONG KONG.

FORSYTH, Mr. A. H., c/o Stevenson & Co., 821 Central Building, 3 Pedder Street, HONG KONG

FORSYTH, Mr. James J., Flat 102,

80 Macdonnell Road, HONG KONG.

GAILEY, Mr. H. G., 81 Mt. Nicholson Gap, HONG KONG

GAILEY, Mrs. Norah, 81 Mt. Nicholson Gap, HONG KONG.

GAMLEN, Mr. Richard, 62 A-D Robinson Road, 19th Floor, Flat B, HONG KONG.

GARCIA, Mr. Arthur, Victoria District Court, HONG KONG.

GARRETT, Mrs. Valery M., 19 Vivian Court, 20 Mount Kellett Road, HONG KONG.

GATELY, Major Charles, c/o Environment Branch, Colonial Secretariat, Lower Albert Road, HONG KONG.

GHOSE, Mrs. Rajeshwari, St. Paul's Convent School, Causeway Bay, HONG KONG.

GIBB, Mr. Hugh, c/o Hong Kong & Shanghai

Banking Corp.,

P.O. Box 64,

HONG KONG.
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RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1981
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CHAN, Mrs Amy CHAN, Mr Sui-Jeung CHAN, Mrs Teresa CHAPMAN, Mr V.F.D. CHAU, Mr David H.S. CHEETHAM, Mrs J.A. CHEN, Mr S.H. CHERN, Dr K.S. CHEUNG, Mr Oswald CHIAO, Dr Chien CHILVERS, Mrs Anna E.S. CHISM, Mr Michael CHIU, Mrs Carol C. CHRISTOFIS, Mr P. CHRISTOFIS, Mrs L.E.R. CHU, Mr Lee CHUA, Miss Fi Lan CLARKE, Mrs Judith CLIMAS, Mr D. John COCHRANE, Mrs Valerie

COLLINS, Mr Alan J. COOPER, Mr Roy

COURTAULD, Mrs Caroline CRABBE, Mr Peter I. CRAIG, Mrs Peggy

CRISSWELL, Dr Coline N. CROSS, Mr Niels T.

CUMINE, Mr E.

CUNNINGHAM, Miss Margaret DAVIES, Mrs L.R.

DAVIES, Mrs Mona

DAVIES, Mr S.N.G. DAVIS, Mr Donald V. DAWE, Mr Jock

DAWSON, Prof. John L.M. DE BURE, Mrs Ursula DEPTFORD, Mr David DER, The Rev. E.B. DIAMOND, Mr A.I.

DOLFIN, Mr John III

DRAKEFORD, Mr Louis S. DYER, Mrs C.E. ECCLES, Mr Jeremy R. ELSOM, Mr Graham J.B. EVANS, Mr Clive Joseph EVANS, Prof. Daffydd M.E. FABRY, Mr R.G. FABRY, Mrs R.G. FAN, Mr Jack F.S.

FAURE, Dr David

FERGUSON, Mrs Carolynn L. FITZPATRICK, Mr J.

FORBES, Miss Janet E. FORSYTH, Mr A.H. FORSYTH, James J. GAILEY, Mr H.G. GAILEY, Mrs Norah GAMLEN, Mr Richard GARCIA, The Hon. Mr Justice GARRETT Mrs Valery M. GATELY, Major Charles GHOSE, Mrs Rajeshwari GIBB, Mr Hugh GIBBONS, Mr John P. GOLDSTEIN, Mr A.L. GRANT, Prof. Charles J. GRAY, Mr Peter H. GRIFFITH, Mr Rodney O. GROVES, Prof. Murray C. GUILLAUME, Baron P. de HAFFNER, Mr Christopher HAHN, Mr Werner HAIGH, Mr D.F.

HALL, Mr Christopher H. HALLIDAY, Mr Peter E.

HALPERIN, Mr David R.

HAMER-HUNT, Mr & Mrs H.D.

HAMILTON, Mr Alexander HAMMOND, Mrs Jennifer Ho, Dr & Mrs Hung Chiu HOCHSTADTER, Dr Walter HODGE, Prof. Peter HODGES, Mr Ronald HODGES, Mrs Sylvia HODGKISS, Dr. I. John HOLLEDGE, Mr Simon

HOLMES, Miss Jeanette E.

HORSTMANN, Mrs Charlotte HOTUNG, Mr Eric E. HUGHES, Ms. Anne HUNT, Mrs Jillian M.C. HYSLOP, Mr John S. JEFFERY, Mr Malcolm J. JOHNSON, Mr & Mrs P.K. JONES, Mr Gordon W.E. KEMP, Dr Derek R. KHAN, Dr Latiffa

KHAN, Miss Sherifa

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RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-2001
https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/zg651950g
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Valery M. Garrett. Heaven is High, the Emperor Far Away, Merchants and Mandarins in Old Canton, Oxford University Press [Oxford University Press (China) Ltd., 2002] xiv, 210,

Mrs. Garrett has put a lot of loving effort into this book, and it shows.

She made many visits to Canton during its years of gestation, and the contents fully endorse her claim (Introduction, xiii) that "instead of discovering that all had been swept away, I found that much had survived.' We are also in her debt for another reason. She has provided wealth of description from older works obtained during her searches in the second-hand and rare book market, many of them never reprinted, and hence scarce and expensive to buy, if you can find them! One such book is by the American, Osmond Tiffany Jr. (Boston, 1849), which has supplied the two little gems given on pages 79 (on the Parsee merchants of Canton) and 90 (on Chinese shopmen).

The result is a lively, informative, and very readable account of a City, once famous across the Four Seas, which has been long neglected and deserves to be again better known. No matter - as the author has felt obliged to add that a visit there is "like an audience with a grand old lady who has had too many face-lifts". She is still worth cultivating, for all that!

The long history of Canton is given in outline, but the focus is on its 18th and 19th centuries "heyday," when the city was the only port on the long Chinese seaboard open to foreign trade: and as promised in the sub-title, here we have 'merchants and mandarins' superabundance, firmly set within the geographical, social, and historical context of their times.

I liked the book's organization. Its three parts, with fourteen chapters and accompanying notes, together with an Introduction, cover the subject very neatly, whilst each chapter is long enough to impart adequate information, but not to the point when it becomes too much to handle.

I also like the illustrations, especially the three sections in colour. All very well reproduced and including some that (I predict) many
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