John M Carroll
Author
Series
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
"John Carroll's narrative explores the history of Hong Kong from the early 1800s through the post-1997 handover, when this former colony became a Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China. The book explores Hong Kong as a place with a unique identity, yet also as a crossroads where Chinese history, British colonial history, and world history intersect. Carroll concludes by exploring the legacies of colonial rule, the consequences...