The Fall of Hong Kong
Britain, China, and the Japanese Occupation
Will be published approx. on 19. March 2004
Book
Paperback/Softback
524 pages
978-0-300-10373-1 (ISBN)
Description
The definitive account of the wartime history of Hong Kong
On Christmas Day 1941 the Japanese captured Hong Kong, and Britain lost control of its Chinese colony for almost four years, a turning point in the process by which the British were to be expelled from the colony and from East Asia. This book unravels for the first time the dramatic story of the Japanese occupation and reinterprets the subsequent evolution of Hong Kong.
"Magnificent. . . . The clarity of mind Snow brings to his labor of storytelling and contextualizing [is] amazing."-John Lanchester, Daily Telegraph
"Beautifully written, with many telling anecdotes."-Lawrence D. Freedman, Foreign Affairs
"Very good. . . . [Provides] a much more nuanced picture than has appeared before in English of life among Hong Kong's different communities before and during the Japanese occupation."-Economist
On Christmas Day 1941 the Japanese captured Hong Kong, and Britain lost control of its Chinese colony for almost four years, a turning point in the process by which the British were to be expelled from the colony and from East Asia. This book unravels for the first time the dramatic story of the Japanese occupation and reinterprets the subsequent evolution of Hong Kong.
"Magnificent. . . . The clarity of mind Snow brings to his labor of storytelling and contextualizing [is] amazing."-John Lanchester, Daily Telegraph
"Beautifully written, with many telling anecdotes."-Lawrence D. Freedman, Foreign Affairs
"Very good. . . . [Provides] a much more nuanced picture than has appeared before in English of life among Hong Kong's different communities before and during the Japanese occupation."-Economist
Reviews / Votes
"[The Fall of Hong Kong] is very different, and very good. . . . Where [Snow] comes into its own is in his use of Japanese and Chinese as well as British sources, which offer a much more nuanced picture than has appeared before in English of life among Hong Kong's different communities before and during the Japanese occupation."-EconomistMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
20 b-w illus.
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 158 mm
Thickness: 36 mm
Weight
703 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-300-10373-1 (9780300103731)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Philip Snow is an orientalist educated at Oxford University. The son of the writers C. P. Snow and Pamela Hansford Johnson, he is author of the acclaimed The Star Raft: China's Encounter with Africa.