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- Forgotten Souls: A Social History of the Hong Kong Cemetery
- Book
- 2011
- Published by: Hong Kong University Press, HKU
- Series: Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Studies
summary
This book follows on from the mapping and recording of the about 10,000 graves that make up the Hong Kong Cemetery for a database which will be held in the archives of the Hong Kong Memory Project and the Royal Asiatic Society among other places. The silent tombs and elegantly carved inscriptions dating from 1842 up to the present day aroused curiosity in the author about who these long-buried people were and how they lived their lives. Lim has teased out from many sources the answers to these questions. This small, alien and rather disparate band of adventurers came from a number of far distant countries to live and work in the tiny and insignificant British foothold of Hong Kong on the edge of a huge and little understood empire. The book tries to show their relationships with each other and with their Chinese neighbours on the island. It has attempted to breathe life into the stories behind the gravestones so that the Hong Kong Cemetery can be viewed as a cradle of history as well as a final resting place for the dead.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright Page
- pp. 2-7
- Chapter 4: Merchants, Clerks and Bankers
- pp. 92-112
- Chapter 5: Servants of the Crown
- pp. 113-142
- Chapter 6: Professionals
- pp. 143-157
- Chapter 7: The Merchant Navy
- pp. 158-182
- Chapter 9: Beachcombers and Destitutes
- pp. 211-213
- Chapter 10: Missionaries
- pp. 214-234
- Chapter 11: The Americans
- pp. 235-241
- Chapter 12: The Armed Forces
- pp. 242-268
- Chapter 13: Women and Children
- pp. 269-285
- Chapter 16: Hong Kong Society in This Period
- pp. 321-348
- Chapter 17: Hong Kong Becomes Cosmopolitan
- pp. 349-363
- Chapter 20: Age of Empire
- pp. 418-441
- Chapter 21: The Disasters of These Years
- pp. 442-451
- Chapter 26: The Eurasians
- pp. 512-521
- Appendices
- pp. 543-550
- Bibliography
- pp. 577-586
Additional Information
ISBN
9789888053742
Related ISBN(s)
9789622099906
MARC Record
OCLC
768111314
Pages
624
Launched on MUSE
2013-05-20
Language
English
Open Access
No