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Hong Kong Going and Gone: Western Victoria (Photographic Series No. 1)
ISBN: N/A
Joint Publishing HK
H.K. $100.00
Collection of 87 photographs of old buildings in Western District, with accompanying text, divided into sections on Institutional Buildings (Religious); Institutional Buildings (Secular); Residences; Streets; details of Buildings (Balconies); Details of Buildings (Doors and Gateways); People (Markets and Shops); People (Trades). Most of the buildings photographed have since been demolished for development.
Chinese Christians: Elites, Middlemen and the Church in Hong Kong - Carl T. Smith
ISBN 9789622096882
HK$195
Reprinted by Hong Kong University Press in June 2005
A series of essays by Rev. Carl Smith, to mark the 25th Anniversary of the Society.
Contents include:
Part I: Mission Schools and their Products: A New Type of China Coast Middleman; (1) The Morrison Education Society and the Moulding of its Students; (2) The Formative Years of the Tong Brothers, Pioneers in the Modernization of China's Commerce and Industry; (3) Translators, Compradores, and Government Advisers; (4) Friends and Relatives of Taiping Leaders; (5) Sun Yat-sen's Baptism and Some Christian Connections.
Part II: The Church, Middlemen, and the HK Setting; (6) The Emergence of a Chinese Elite in HK; (7) The English-educated Chinese Elite in c19 HK; (8) The HK Church and c19 Colonial Attitudes; (9) The HK Situation as it Influenced the Protestant Church; (10) The Early HK Church and Traditional Chinese Ideas, with Epilogue and Introduction.
(1985, jointly published by the RASHK with Oxford University Press, HK)
Index to the Sessional Papers of Hong Kong, 1879-1982
(1985, Index to the Official Papers "laid before the Legislative Council of Hong Kong")
H.K. $100.00
The Turning of the Tide: Religion in China Today - Julian F. Pas (ed).
ISBN 9780195851175
RASHK with Oxford University Press
Out of print
A series of essays edited by Julian F. Pas, dating mostly from 1985.
Contents: Introduction; Chinese Religion in Transition; Recent Chinese Research Publications on Religious Studies; The Relations Between Religion and Peasant Rebellions in China, a Review of the Interpretations by Chinese Historians; Revival of Religious Practices in Fujian, a Case Study; New Developments Concerning Buddhist and Taoist Monasteries; Symbolic Amulets and Jewelry in Chinese Popular Culture; Revival of Temple Worship and Popular Religious Traditions; A Revival of Confucian Ceremonies in China; The Catholic Church in China; The Protestant Church in China; Folk religion in HK and the NT Today; The Jiao festival in HK and the NT; Western Language Publications on Chinese Religions 1981-1987 (Bibliography); Chinese Language Publications on Chinese Religions, 1977-1987 (Bibliography).
Beyond the Metropolis: Villages in Hong Kong - Patrick H. Hase and Elizabeth Sinn
ISBN 9789620412981
Joint Publishing HK
HK$310
A collection of essays edited by P.H. Hase and E. Sinn, with 200 photographs of New Territories Villages, to mark the 35th Anniversary of the Society. Contents: The Traditional Background, HK Villages in the 1950s; The Village Landscape; Village festivals; HK's Wai, Defensive Architecture of the NT; Ping Shan, A Great Clan Village; Traditional Village Politics, Lau Shui Heung; Pak Mong, Tai Ho and Ngau Kwu Long, the Three Hamlets of Mui Wo; Sha Lo Tung; Tsang Tai Uk.
In the Heart of the Metropolis: Yaumatei and its People - Patrick H. Hase and Elizabeth Sinn
ISBN 9789620417474
Joint Publishing HK
HK$260
A collection of essays edited by P.H. Hase with photographs by the members of the Cathay Camera Club, published as a companion to Beyond the Metropolis: Villages in Hong Kong. Contents: Nineteenth Century Yaumatei; The Temple Squaer Street; The Yaumatei Fruit Laans; The Yaumatei Typhoon Shelter; Cantonese Opera in Temple Street; Outsiders in Old Yaumatei; Yaumatei and the Yu Lan Festival; Tenements and Mutual Aid Committees; Schools and Schooling in Yaumatei.
Sense of Place: Hong Kong West of Pottinger Street - Veronica Pearson and Ko Tim-Keung
ISBN 9789620428111
Joint Publishing HK
HK$380
Out of print
The Publications Committee of the Royal Asiatic Society had been pondering how best to use its archive of 2000 photographs taken between 1974-1978 by volunteers recruited from the RAS and the South China Athletic Association Camera Club. Some of the photographs were published in an earlier RAS book, Hong Kong, Going and Gone, but after that little was done with them, other than holding a small exhibition in the Landmark in 1998. As time went on and thirty years passed, the prescience of the RAS in creating this archive became more apparent as much of the architecture, street life and trades that would have been common in 1974 had all but disappeared by 2007. The moment was judged ripe for a book that would celebrate what was lost – sometimes deservedly, at other times with deep regret – in Hong Kong’s determination to embrace its future and destroy its past. A Sense of Place pays homage to what was and is unique, beautiful, typical, quirky and ordinary in the area west of Pottinger Street both in terms of its built environment and its residents. Some of it is still there but much is not; these absences are recaptured in the many images we have included to re-create our own sense of place