Volume 39, 1999

P.H. Hase, Beside the Yamen: Nga Tsin Wai Village; D.D. Waters, Safeguarding One's Fortunes: The Importance of Tun Fu; Lawrence Lai Wai Chung, The Battle of Hong Kong: A Note on the Literature and the Effectiveness of the Defence; P.J. Aston, Decoded Version of Squadron Leader Donald Hill's Wartime Diary Maintained Whilst in Captivity in Hong Kong: (a) Translation of “Russels Mathematical Tables”, (b) A Decoded Diary Reveals a War Time Story; Nicholas Tapp, The Hong Kong Anthropological Society Barbara Ward Memorial Lecture 2000 - Post-Colonial Anthropology: Local Identities and Virtual Nationality in the Hong Kong-China Region; James Hayes, The Characteristics of Chinese Religion: Mainly Taken from 19th Century Writings, but yet Relevant for Contemporary Hong Kong; James Hayes, “That Singular and Hitherto Almost Unknown Country”: Opinions on China, the Chinese, and the “Opium War” among British Naval and Military Officers who Served During Hostilities There; (Special Feature: Papers on the Conference Held on 9 December, 2000 to Commemorate the 40th Anniversary of the Reconstitution of the Hong Kong Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society (HKBRAS) - Hong Kong: Forty Years of a Growing City:-) James Hayes, Feng Shui and Roadworks at Tong Fuk Village, 1958; James Hayes, A Torn Scrap of Paper: Relating to a Money Loan Association, Small Loans, or What?; P.H. Hase, Further Tales of the Man the Emperor Decapitated; photograph taken on the occasion of the HKBRAS visit to the Public Records Office in January 2000; D.D. Waters, One of Hong Kong's Many Hillside Temples; Crystal Tang, The HKBRAS trip to Vietnam between 30 September and 6 October 2000; James Hayes, Translations from the Russian, HKBRAS Journal. No 38; Gillian Bickley, Hong Kong Invaded! A ’97 Nightmare. (2001)

Volume 40, 2000

Solomon Bard, Tea and Opium; Teresa Kowalska, Tea, Ivory and Ebony: Tracing Colonial Threads in the Inseparable Life and Literature of Han Suyin; Brian C. Fawcett, The Chinese Labour Corps in France, 1917-1921; Keith Stevens and Jennifer Welch, The Celestial Ministry of Time; Keith Stevens, Images on Popular Religion Altars of the Heroes Involved in the Suppression of the An Lushan Rebellion (AD 755-763); Dan Waters, The Two Obelisks at Tai Tam; Keith Stevens, Patron Deity of Prostitutes: Zhu Bajie; Diana Slater, group photograph of the HKBRAS visit to Goa in 2000; Barbara Park, A Walk along Harlech and Lugard Roads; Dan Waters, Designatory Letters after an RAS Member’s Name; Dan Waters, photographs from the HKBRAS photographic exhibition held in January 2001 at the City University; Dan Waters, A Brief History of Technical Education in Hong Kong, 1863-1980; Dan Waters, more photographs from the HKBRAS 40th Anniversary Celebration Conference held on December 2000; Dan Waters, The HKBRAS Volunteers; More on the HKBRAS Trip to the Socialist Republic of Vietnam between 30 September and 6 October 2000; Jack Lao Mou Chi, photograph of Hong Kong Harbour and Waterfront taken in 1954; Peter Halliday, Some Thoughts on Love is a Many Splendored Thing; Chiu Hang Shi, Amendments to the Article ‘Yaumatei and the Yu Lan Festival’ in ‘In the Heart of the Metropolis: Yaumatei and its People’; James Hayes, Model Village, Kowloon Tsai, Hong Kong. (2001)

Volume 41, 2001

Norman Miners, Industrial Development in the Colonial Empire and the Imperial Economic Conference at Ottawa 1932; Göran Aijmer, Earth God Wine and the Meeting of the Fluttering Butterflies: Local Customs of Early Spring in Late Imperial Central China; Keith Stevens, The Popular Religion Gods of the Hainanese; Valery Garrett, Chinese Baby Carriers: A Hong Kong Tradition Now Gone; Anthony Hedley and Alfred Lin, The Lugard Tribute; César Guillén-Nuñez, - The Façade of St. Paul’s, Macao: A Retable-Façade?; Robert Nield, Bhutan – Why Not?; Ko Tim-keung, A Review of Development of Cemeteries in Hong: 1841-1950; Louis Ha and Dan Waters, Hong Kong’s Lighthouses and the Men Who Manned Them; Keith Stevens, A Tale of Sour Grapes: Messrs Little and Mesny and the First Steamship Through the Yangzi Gorges; Elizabeth Teather, Deathspace in Hong Kong, Guangzhou and Seoul: A Review of Recent Research, 1995-2001; Chiu Hang Shi, Unicorn Dancing in Pat Heung; Keith Stevens, A Contentious Christian Missionary in Central China, 1887; Kirsty Norman, Friends of the HKBRAS Trip to Cornwall; David Akers-Jones, Tea and Opium: Some Further Notes on Macartney’s Role; Jennifer Welch, Coincidence?; Dan Waters, Another Donation to the Hong Kong Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society; Richard Garrett, Taipa Fort and a Nineteenth Century Cannon; Peter Halliday, More Thoughts on Han Suyin’s A Many Splendoured Thing: A Tribute to Ian Morrison; Rosemary Lee and A.C. Bromfield, The Life and Times of Captain Samuel Cornel Plant; Anon., More on the Two Obelisks at Tai Tam; Dan Waters, Long Night’s Journey into Day: Prisoners of War in Hong Kong and Japan, 1941-1945; James Hayes, Heaven is High, the Emperor Far Away: Merchants and Mandarins in Old Canton; Patrick Hase, Hong Kong Metamorphosis; Peter Halliday, Searching for Frederick and Adventures Along the Way. (2003)

Volume 42, 2002

Andrew Abraham, The transfer of the Straits Settlements: A revisionist approach to the study of colonial law and administration ; Chohong Choi, Between the nine dragons and a divine wind: How Hong Kong’s weather might have affected an allied invasion to retake the territory; James Hayes, Hong Kong’s Chinese associations: Their ceremonial occasions and their helpers; Lawrence Lai, Daniel Ho and Leung Hing Fung, Survey of the Devil’s Peak redoubt and Gough Battery; Eve Lam, The Royal Asiatic Society (Hong Kong Branch): The faces, the stories and the memories; Anne Ozorio, The myth of unpreparedness: The origins of anti-Japanese resistance in prewar Hong Kong; Lauren Pfister, The proto-martyr of Chinese protestants: Reconstructing the story of Ch’ëa Kam-kwong; Stephen Selby, Chinese archery: An unbroken tradition?; Keith Stevens, The Yangzi port of Zhenjiang down the centuries; Dan Waters, Hong Kong in the 1950s and ’60s: Reminiscences; Gliding: How Louis de San beat the Asian duration and altitude records in Chungking, China, in 1940, from the Belgian journal Aviation, Volume 2, Number 14, March 1946, translation by Paul Bolding; Paul Bolding, More on Louis de San; Julia Chan, The Library of the Hong Kong Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society; Arnold Graham’s Shanghai Christmas Card, 1905; Peter Halliday, Adventures in publishing: How The Crippled Tree became Kalekie drzewo; Peter Hansell, The colourful Douglas Lapraik (1818-1869); Paul Harrison, Introducing the Conservation Section of the Hong Kong Government; James Hayes, Afterthoughts on South CHine Village Culture, Oxford University Press, 2001; Robert Horsnell, A note on the Japanese gun emplacement at Tathong Point, Tung Lung Chau; David Mahoney, More on the Chinese Labour Corps in France, 1917-1921: A new discovery; David Mahoney, Yet more on the Chinese Labour Corps in France, 1917-1921; Martin Merz, Yet more on Tea and Opium; Robert Nield, photographs from the HKBRAS visit to Bhutan, February 2002; Keith Stevens, The wrestling princes; Peter Stuckey and Chris Bailey, Visiting St. John’s Island; Dan Waters, Projects and enquiries; Dan Waters, Yet more thoughts on Han Suyin’s A Many Splendoured Thing: Conduit Road and its environs; John Wilson, A poem from the HKBRAS visit to East Bhutan, February 2003; Peter Halliday, Voices from the past: Hong Kong, 1842-1918 (Solomon Bard); Peter Halliday, The development of education in Hong Kong, 1841-1897 (Gillian Bickley); Patrick Hase, The fall of Hong Kong: Britain, China and the Japanese occupation (Philip Snow); James Hayes, From rice to riches: A personal journey through a changing China (Jane Hutcheon). (2004)

Vol. 43, 2003

Traditional dwellings, conservation and land use: A study of three villages in Sai Kung. How old is Shanghai’s Longhua Temple? Canton symposium: The world of the old China trade: the locales and the people. A new discovery and its significance: The statutory declarations made by Sir Robert Hart concerning his secret domestic life in 19th century China. Justice, law, and the proposed tribunal for the Khmer Rouge. H.M.S. Hermes: China Station, 1930-1933. Between Scylla and Charybdis: China and the Chinese during the Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905. Photos from the HKBRAS trip to Canton, October 2003. HKBRAS visit to Macau on 26th October 2003 to see an exhibition of George Smirnoff’s watercolours of Macau. The making of Cornell Plant the pilot. The history of the Belilios Star: Hong Kong’s own life-saving medal. Yet another angle on the Chinese Labour Corps in France, 1918. The Middlesex (`Tyndareus’) Stone. Book Reviews: Full Circle: A Life with Hong Kong and China. The Silk Road, Art and History. (2005)

Vol. 44, 2004

William Doberk – a stormy career: founding the Hong Kong Observatory. The Hungry Ghosts Festival in Aberdeen Street, Hong Kong. The rise and fall of social, economic and political reforms in Hong Kong, 1930-1955. Shanghai’s lost libraries rediscovered. German business in Hong Kong before 1914. Gladys Aylward (1902-1970) with the muleteers of Shanxi, and spying for the Chinese. Reminiscences of a Hong Kong herbal doctor: life at seventy. A further Note on Taipa Fort and a Nineteenth Century Cannon. The tea warehouses on Honam. A further Note on A Tribute to Ian Morrison. Resourceful tea hunters in Japan, a further Note on Tea and Opium. A further Note on Hong Kong’s Chinese associations: their ceremonial occasions and their helpers. Xanadu: encounters with China. A report on the Exhibition at the National Library of Australia, 19 August-14 November 2004. Book Reviews: Administering Empire: an annotated checklist of personal memoirs and related studies. China Illustrated: western views of the Middle Kingdom. (2006)

Vol. 45, 2005

“With the ease and grace of a born bishop?” – re-evaluating James Legge’s contributions to secular and religious education in Hong Kong. Feng Shui and the orientation of traditional villages in the New Territories, Hong Kong. Colin McEwan’s Diary: the battle for Hong Kong and escape into China. Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps, Number 3 (Machine Gun) Company. High-class opium houses in Canton during the 1930s. Charles Henry Brewitt-Taylor, 1857-1938: translator and Chinese Customs Commissioner. Revisiting Chonquing: China’s Second World War Temporary National Capital. Old guns found at Arsenal Street, Hong Kong – a preliminary report on some excavated gun barrels. A further Note on Visiting St. John’s Island. The Foreign Office and Hong Kong. A further Note on The Colourful Douglas Lapraik (1818-1869). Alfred James Hadley and the Chinese Labour Corps. Early references to the rhinoceros on the Chinese island of Hainan. Book Reviews: A Dictionary of Cantonese Slang. Education in Hong Kong, 1941 to 2001: visions and revisions. Helena May: the person, the place and 90 years of history in Hong Kong. The Maryknoll Sisters in Hong Kong, 1921-1969: in love with the Chinese. Maquista chapado: vocabulary and expressions in Macao’s Portuguese creole. One couple, two cultures: 81 Western-Chinese couples talk about love and marriage.

Vol. 46, 2006

Building the Kowloon-Canton-Hankow Railway. The Private Tiger Balm Garden in Hong Kong: Challenges in Conservation and Restoration. J.L. McPherson: Hong Kong YMCA General Secretary, 1905-1935. Hong Kong Legacy: A Swedish Connection. Monuments to Hong Kong’s World War II Dead, 1945-2005. Henri Vetch (1898-1978): Soldier, Bookseller and Publisher. The First Steam-Powered Ascent Through the Yangtse Gorges. Book Reviews: The Canton Trade: Life and Enterprise on the China Coast, 1700-1845. China Trade and Empire: Jardine Matheson & Co. and the Origins of British Rule in Hong Kong 1827-1843. Colonialism and the Hong Kong Mentality. Edge of Empires: Chinese Elites and British Colonials in Hong Kong. The Great Difference: Hong Kong’s New Territories and its People 1898-2004. The Poetic Mandarin. Windows on a Chinese Past. Huang Jia Yazhou Wenhui Bei Zhongguo Zhihui Yanjiu (A Study of the Royal Asiatic Society North China Branch).

Vol. 47, 2007

The Shaping of Hong Kong’s Central Business District. Uk Tao Village and the books of Cheng Yung. The Hong Kong Mint: the History of an Early Engineering Experiment. The History of the Lin Fa Kung Temple, Tai Hang. A Survey of the Pottinger Battery, Devil’s Peak, Hong Kong. An Undiplomatic Foray: a 1967 Escapade in Macau. Yang Laoda, the Spirit of the Yangzi, and Related Gods of the Yangzi and its Tributaries. RAS Visit to No.1 Chatham Path, Hong Kong. Book Reviews: A Concise History of Hong Kong. Hands on or Hands Off. Letters to my grandchildren. Where empires Collided: Russian and Soviet Relations with Hong Kong.

Vol. 48, 2008

China’s 1936 Olympic Football Team: eight players were from Hong Kong. Recollections of the Battle of Hong Kong and the life of a POW. Hong Kong 1954: Future Indefinite. The Development of Hong Kong Research and Library Studies: The Contributions of H.A. Rydings. Eitel’s Europe in China: a reappraisal of the messages and the man. The Catholic Church in Nineteenth Century Village Life in Hong Kong. Duncan Force – the Shanghai Defence Force in 1927, and the Career of Captain Ronald Spear. Fortunate and Fertile: Shanghai before the Treaty Port era. Book Reviews: Canton-Macau Dagregisters, 1762. Chinese Dress: From the Qing Dynasty to the Present. Governing Hong Kong: Administrative Officers. Hong Kong Internment 1942-1945: Hong Kong’s Monetary System, The Currency Board’s Silver Jubilee; an overview by Catherine Schenk, with reviews of Profit, Policies and Panics: Hong Kong’s Banks and the Making of a Miracle Economy, 1935-1980, Hong Kong’s Link to the U.S. Dollar: Origin and Evolution, Hong Kong’s Money: History, Logic and Operation of the Currency Peg and how Taiwan Became Chinese. King Hui: The man who Owned all the Opium in Hong Kong. The Six-Day War of 1899: Hong Kong in the age of Imperialism.

 

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