The Fall of Hong Kong by Philip Snow
On Christmas Day 1941 the Japanese captured Hong Kong, and Britain lost control of its Chinese colony for almost four years. The Japanese occupation was a turning point in the slow historical process by which the British were to be expelled from the colony and from four centuries of influence in East Asia.
"[The Fall of Hong Kong] is very different, and very good. . . Where [Snow] comes into its own is in his use of Japanese and Chinese as well as British sources, which offer a much more nuanced picture than has appeared before in English of life among Hong Kong's different communities before and during the Japanese occupation."—Economist
Philip Snow is an orientalist educated at Oxford University. The son of the writers C. P. Snow and Pamela Hansford Johnson, he is author of the acclaimed The Star Raft: China’s Encounter with Africa.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780300103731 |
| ISBN 10 | 0300103735 |
| Title | The Fall of Hong Kong |
| Author | Philip Snow |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Yale University Press |
| Year published | 2004-07-11 |
| Number of pages | 524 |
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