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Acknowledgments

I would like to acknowledge the help and assistance I have received from a wide range of people and institutions. I would firstly like to thank the staff of the Hong Kong Public Records Office at Kwun Tong, especially Mr Bernard Hui and his colleagues , for their unfailing helpfulness and assistance. I would also like to thank the staff at the National Archives at Kew, London and the staff of the Rhodes House Library, Oxford for their permission to access the various personal papers housed there. I have also received unfailing help from the staff of the Hong Kong Special Collection at the University of Hong Kong whose collection of material on Hong Kong has proved invaluable. My thanks too, to Dr Norman Miners for his invaluable assistance in making transcripts of interviews of former Hong Kong government officials available to me and to Professor Steve Tsang for doing the same. I am grateful to the Director of Lands of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government, Mr Patrick Lau, for his kind permission to views files in the possession of his department. I also wish to thank Mr Peter Yeung of the Hong Kong Resource Centre, Toronto, for his assistance, and the staff of the library at the University of Toronto; the Master of Massey College for kindly admitting me as a Visiting Scholar during my stay in Toronto; and the libraries of the School of African and Oriental Studies, the London School of Economics and the University of Edinburgh. I wish to express my grateful thanks to Professor Bernard Luk for his encouragement to teach a course on the history of Hong Kong at the University of Toronto and to the Department of History for allowing me to do so. I would like to thank Professor Ian Scott, for his supervision during the preparation of my thesis and for his patient guidance throughout my research and writing. I also wish to thank Professor James Lee for his constant support. I also wish to thank Mr Stuart Leckie and Mr Michael Leung for their kind assistance. I also wish to thank friends and colleagues for their continual support during my research and writing, in Acknowledgments x Acknowledgments particular Dr Christopher Munn, Mr Robin McLeish, Mr Kenneth Ness, Mr Alastair Singleton, Mr Alistair Dickson, Dr Peter C. C. Chau, Mr Arthur Kwok, Dr David Clayton and the late Mr C. Stewart Ross. A very special mention must be made of my wife, Rosanna, without whose patient support and encouragement this book would never have been written. ...