Hong Kong Internment tells the story of the more than three thousand non-Chinese civilians: British, American, Dutch, and others, who were trapped in the British colony and interned behind barbed wire in Stanley Internment Camp from 1942 to 1945. From 1970 to 1972, while researching for his MA thesis, the author interviewed twenty-three former Stanley internees.
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Geoffrey Emerson has written a careful and detailed study of a much-neglected topic in the history of the Second World War and Japan's treatment of enemy civilians in one of its occupied territories. This book is solidly grounded in research and enlivened by pictorial sketches of camp life as well as by interviews with former internees. The result is a story of human endurance and survival amidst terribly trying circumstances over three and a half years. -- Edward Rhoads, Professor Emeritus of Modern Chinese History, University of Texas at Austin Manchus and Han: Ethnic Relations and Political Power in Late Qing and Early Republican China, 1861-1928
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Höhe: 236 mm
Breite: 157 mm
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978-962-209-880-0 (9789622098800)
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Geoffrey Charles Emerson has lived in Hong Kong for more than forty years. He retired in 2000 from St Paul's College, where he taught history and English and served as vice principal and careers master. He was president of the Hong Kong History Society and is presently a council member of the Royal Asiatic Society (Hong Kong Branch).
