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Acknowledgements Grateful acknowledgements are made to the following: Wang Gungwu, Vice-Chancellor 1986-1996, for his enthusiastic support of our project; Bek-To King for her helpful suggestions and for sharing photos and personal memories of Gordon King; Alison Kennedy, for kindly submitting a personal account of the life of her father, Gordon King; Lady May Ride for helpful interest and sharing informal memories of the war years and her subsequent life with Lindsay Ride; Jason Wordie, co-author of Ruins of War, for his practical interest in our project during many informative exchanges on the history of wartime Hong Kong; Arthur Gomes for keeping ex-POWs from Hong Kong in touch through a monthly Newsletter and through stimulating reunions; the staff of Robert Black College for the warm hospitality shown to many of us during memorable stays at the University when visiting Hong Kong; the late Bill Gegg for much help with background information on Sham Shui Po and the Innoshima period; Zaza Hsieh, Huang Hsing Tsung and Rayson Huang for editorial help with transliteration of old and new Chinese names and places, and for the loan of old snapshots; xix xx Acknowledgements Solly Bard and Osler Thomas, who lent snapshots and audio transcriptions by way of background for their articles; and former students and faculty Solly Bard, Oswald Cheung, Bill Gegg, Rayson Huang, Uheng Khoo, Douglas Laing, Norman MacKenzie, Dexter Man, Clifford Matthews, Guan Bee Ong, Joyce Symons, Osler Thomas, and Patrick Yu for generous donations for necessary pre-publication expenses. We also thank Anthony Sweeting for permission to reprint his article 'Controversy over the Re-opening of the University of Hong Kong, 1942-1948', in Between East and West: Aspects of Social and Political Development in Hong Kong, edited by Elizabeth Sinn, Centre of Asian Studies, the University of Hong Kong (1990); The University of Hong Kong Gazette for permission to reprint The First Daphne Chun Lecture by Gordon King (1973), and Hong Kong University Press for permission to reproduce the following articles: Dafydd Emrys Evans, 'The Test of War' and 'The Phoenix Arises from the Ashes' in Constancy of Purpose: Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong. (1987). Bernard Mellor, 'Strains of War', 'The Link Breaks' and 'A New Start' in The University of Hong Kong: An Informal History. (1988). Lindsay Ride, 'The Test of War' in The First Fifty Years, University of Hong Kong, 1911-1961, edited by Brian Harrison. (1962). as well as extracts from Jean Gittins, Stanley: Behind Barbed Wire. (1987). And of course, we are especially grateful to all our authors for their advice and encouragement and for cooperating so willingly in this spontaneously evolving enterprise; Rhonda Staudohar for turning their drafts into elegant manuscripts; and Hong Kong University Press and its staff for transforming our material into this final attractive volume. ...

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