The story of an Englishman who lived through the last years of the Qing dynasty, was trapped in the British Legation during the Boxer uprising and went on to oc

In this pioneering study, Sheilah Hamilton shows that, from the earliest days of British rule, the colonial administration introduced harsh legislation to contr

This book fleshes out the impact of political figures and how their actions, and inactions, affect various imperial or Hong Kong political and administrative af