ENG-1995 — Page 8

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7

書本

LIBRARI

G KONG

Cover Illustration

Bright lights,

big city: Hong Kong Island

appears bedecked with jewels in the autumn nightfall,

looking west across

Central District over Causeway Bay and Wan Chai.

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End-paper Maps

Front

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The Territory of Hong Kong

Back

Hong Kong in its Regional Setting

Frontispiece

Barely half a century separates the post-war sleepy backwater from the gleaming

powerhouse that

is modern Hong Kong. The other photographs in this retrospective illustrate the changes wrought by time —and human endeavour.