Hong Kong : epilogue to an empire / Jan Morris.

Main entry:

Morris, Jan, 1926-2020.

Title & Author:

Hong Kong : epilogue to an empire / Jan Morris.

Edition:

Vintage Departures ed.

Publication:

Description:

320 pages : maps ; 21 cm

Series:

Vintage departures

Notes:
"Revised and updated"--Cover
"Portions of this work have appeared in the New York times, Travel and leisure, and Vogue"--Title page verso
Includes bibliographical references (pages 304-306) and index.
1. Prologue -- 2. Chronology -- 3. Impacts and Images -- 4. 1840s: On the Foreshore -- 5. Peoples -- 6. 1880s: The Compleat Colony -- 7. Means of Support -- 8. 1920s: Dogdays -- 9. Control Systems -- 10. 1940s: War and Peace -- 11. The Landlord -- 12. The Final Edition -- 13. Reading List.

Summary:

On July 1, 1997, a world will come to an end, as one of the last outposts of the British empire returns to Chinese rule. No one has depicted that world - the dazzlingly modern, obdurately traditional Crown Colony of Hong Kong - more faithfully, shrewdly, or affectionately than Jan Morris, who in this contemporary classic of travel writing celebrates the city's charm and squalor, unravels the tangle of its history, and gives us an informed glimpse into its future.
Combining firsthand reportage with exemplary research, Morris takes us from Hong Kong's clamorous back alleys to the luxurious Happy Valley racecourse, where taipans place their bets between sips of champagne and bird's nest soup. Morris chronicles the exploits of opium traders and pirates, colonists and financiers, and shows how their descendants view the prospect of reunification with the Chinese mainland. What emerges is an epic tableau, vastly informed and pungently evocative.

ISBN:

0679776486
9780679776482
0679724869

Subject:

Morris, Jan, 1926-2020 Travel China Hong Kong.
Morris, Jan, 1926-2020
Travel
Hong Kong (China) History.
Hong Kong (China) Description and travel.
China Hong Kong

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Vintage departures.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 129892
Call No.: ID DS796.H7.M66; ID:97-B2000
Status: Available

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