The Happy Valley: A History and Tour of the Hong Kong Cemetery

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Notes 1 Grave Concerns 1. Samuel Johnson, Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (London: Edward Lacey, 1838), 4. 2. The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia, often abbreviated to Rasselas, is a novella written by Dr Samuel Johnson in January 1759 to raise money to support his sick mother. Dr Johnson was one of England’s greatest literary critics, poets and essayists. He was also responsible for the Herculean task of compiling the first English dictionary. 3. James Bodell, A Soldier’s View of Empire: The Reminiscences of James Bodell, 1831–92, edited by Keith Sinclair (London: Bodley Head, 1982), 66. 4. W. F. Mayers et al., The Treaty Ports of China and Japan (London: Trübner & Co., 1867), 12–13. 5. Hong Kong Government, Historical and Statistical Abstract of the Colony of Hong Kong 1841–1930 (Hong Kong: Government Printer, 1932), 4. 6. Henry Knollys, English Life in China (London: Smith Elder & Co., 1885), 18. 7. Ibid., 20. 8. Sydney B. Skertchly, Our Island: ANaturalist’s Description of Hong Kong (Hong Kong: Kelly and Walsh, 1893), 49, and James J. Walker, ‘A Preliminary List of the Butterflies of Hong Kong; based on Observations and Captures made during the Winter and Spring Months of 1892 and 1893’, Transactions of the Entomological Society of London Part IV (December 1895): 439. 9. J. C. Kershaw, Butterflies of Hong Kong and South-East China (Hong Kong: Kelly and Walsh, 1907), Prefaratory. 10. Hong Kong Government, Colonial Office Report (Hong Kong: Hong Kong Government, 1911), 110. 11. Bard, Solomon M., Study of Military Graves and Monuments: Hong Kong Cemetery (Hong Kong: Antiquities and Monuments Office, 1991), 7. 12. Ibid., 45. NOTES NOTES 130 Notes to pp. 11–21 2 Origins of the Cemetery Garden 1. Judi Culbertson and Tom Randall, Permanent Parisians: An Illustrated, Biographical Guide to the Cemeteries of Paris (London: Robson Books, 2000), 7. 2. William Blake, Milton (1804). Reprint, David Bindman editor, Blake’s Illuminated Books, vol. 5 (London: Tate Gallery, 1991). 3. F. Krupa, ‘Paris: Urban Sanitation Before the 20th Century’ [Online]. Available from http://www.op.net/~uarts/krupa/alltextparis.html. 4. Ibid. 5. Ibid. 6. Judi Culbertson and Tom Randall, Permanent Parisians, 8. 7. Richard A. Etlin, ‘Pere Lachaise and the Garden Cemetery’, Journal of Garden History, Vol. 4, No. 3 (1984): 219. 8. Response to questionnaire by Monsieur Christian Charlet (Paris Cemetery Department Historian), 24 December 2004. 9. Brent Elliot, ‘The Landscape of the English Cemetery’, Landscape Design (October 1989): 13. 10. Ibid. 11. James Stevens Curl, A Celebration of Death: An Introduction to Some of the Buildings, Monuments, and Settings of Funerary Architecture in the Western European Tradition (London: B. T. Batsford Ltd., 1993), 210. 12. James J. Berry, The Glasgow Necropolis Heritage Trail and Historical Account (Glasgow: Glasgow City Council). 13. Ibid. 14. John Strang, Necropolis Glasguensis with Observations on Ancient and Modern Tombs and Sepulture (Glasgow: Merchant’s House of Glasgow, 1831), 28. 15. James J. Berry, The Glasgow Necropolis. 16. Ibid. 17. Ibid. 18. James Steven Curl, ‘The Design of the Early British Cemeteries’, Journal of Garden History, Vol. 4, No. 3 (1984): 232. 19. John C. Loudon, On the Laying Out, Planting and Managing of Cemeteries and on the Improvement of Churchyards (Redhill: Ivelet Books Ltd., 1981), 13. 20. Brent Elliot, ‘The Landscape of the English Cemetery’, 13. 21. Ibid. 22. John C. Loudon, On the Laying Out, Planting and Managing of Cemeteries, 70. 23. James Steven Curl, A Celebration of Death, 263. 24. Mike Dash, Tulipomania (New York: Three Rivers Press, 2000), 9–10. 25. Ibid., 10. 26. John C. Loudon, On the Laying Out, Planting and Managing of Cemeteries, 70. 27. Ibid., 22. NOTES 131 Notes to pp. 22–37 28. Ibid., 56. 29. Brent Elliot, ‘The Landscape of the English Cemetery’, 13–4. 30. James J. Berry, The Glasgow Necropolis. 31. Protest slogan against the proposed closure of the urban cemeteries, Paris late 1800s. 32. James J. Berry, The Glasgow Necropolis. 33. Ibid. 34. Julie Rugg and Julie Dunk, ‘Conserving Cemeteries’, Landscape Design (November 1994): 26. 35. Ibid., 25. 3 The Rise and Fall of the Hong Kong Cemetery 1. John Strang, Necropolis Glasguensis with Observations on Ancient and Modern Tombs and Sepulture (Glasgow: Merchant’s House of Glasgow, 1831), 62. 2. Hal Empson, Mapping Hong Kong (Hong Kong: Government Printer, 1992), 130. 3. Geotechnical Engineering Office, Geological Survey of Hong Kong and Kowloon (Sheet 11, Series HGM20, Edition 1-1986...