Dispersal and Renewal: Hong Kong University During the War Years

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Contents Preface: The Time is Ripe. Clifford Matthews Acknowledgements Maps Photographs Prologue: 'A Cosy Hillside Campus . Dafydd Emrys Evans The Setting 1. The Test of War (Part 1) Lindsay Ride xi xix xxi xxix 1 9 2. An Academic Odyssey: A Professor in Five Continents (Part 1) 25 Norman H. MacKenzie 3. My War Years in Hong Kong, China and India Zaza Hsieh 4. Wartime Experiences in Hong Kong and China (Part 1) Patrick Yu 5. Strains of War and The links Break Bernard Mellor Dispersal 6. An Episode in the History of the University Gordon King vii 39 51 61 85 viii Contents 7. Remembrances of Times Past: The University and Chungking 105 Man Wah Leung Bentley 8. University Days and the War Remembered 109 Uheng Khoo 9. Full Circle: University Life in Hong Kong and Beyond 115 Rayson Huang 10. Pursuing Science in Hong Kong, China and the West 127 Huang Hsing Tsung II. A 'Yellow Fish' in Wartime China 143 Leslie L. Sung 12. A Lifetime of Science in China 151 Chung Heung Sung (Zhong Xiang Chong) 13. HKU, Macao and the DGS 159 Joyce Symons 14. The Test of War' 169 Dafydd Emrys Evans Prisoners of War 15. An Academic Odyssey: A Professor in Five Continents (Part 2) 179 Nonnan H. MacKenzie 16. Mount Davis and Sham Shui Po: A Medical Officer with 193 the Volunteers Solomon Bard 17. A Hong Kong Doctor in War and Peace 203 Albert Rodrigues 18. A Sham Shui Po Episode: The Sufferer Called 'Angel' 209 Nicholas Halfter 19. Working on the Railroad: Siam-Burma 213 Victor Shamraeff 20. Hullo, Again, Hong Kong! 221 Ian H.E Kerr 2I. Life Experiences: From Star Ferry to Stardust 227 Clifford Matthews 22. Stanley: Behind Barbed Wire 247 Jean Gittins Grapevine 23. The Test of War (Part 2) Lindsay Ride Contents 24. With the BAAG in Wartime China Osler Thomas 25. Wartime Experiences in Hong Kong and China (Part 2) Patrick Yu 26. Wartime Intelligence in China Oswald Cheung 27. In India, in China and Twice in Hong Kong Bernard Mellor Renewal 28. The Phoenix Arises from the Ashes Dafydd Emrys Evans 29. Dispersal and Renewal: Hong Kong University Medical and Health Services Guan Bee Ong 30. Controversy over the Re-opening of the University of Hong Kong, 1942-48 Anthony Sweeting 31. A New Start Bernard Mellor Epilogue: 'A Bridge between East and West' Clifford Matthews Glossary Index ix 289 303 313 335 345 377 389 397 425 441 447 449 ...