| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 241 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
The 1920s, People and Weather -- The 1930s, Schools, Visitors, and Visits -- Advent of Japanese, 1938-1941 -- Japanese Occupation and Internment, 1941-1942 -- In and Out of the Camp, Releases, and Repatriation, 1941-1942 -- Postwar Years, the 1950s, the Early 1960s, and Refugees -- Resettlement Areas in the 1950s and the 1960s |
| Summary |
This book is a documentary survey of Hong Kong history, from the 1920s to the mid-1960s, from the perspective of the Maryknoll Sisters, as recorded in their diaries written during that period. A priceless collection of first-hand materials on the social history of Hong Kong, it also serves as a companion volume to the author's The Maryknoll Sisters in Hong Kong, 1921-1969 (Palgrave, 2004) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Maryknoll Sisters -- Biography
|
|
Maryknoll Sisters -- Missions -- China -- Hong Kong -- History -- 20th century
|
|
Maryknoll Sisters. |
|
Nuns -- China -- Hong Kong -- Diaries
|
|
Women missionaries -- China -- Hong Kong -- Diaries
|
|
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Religious.
|
|
RELIGION -- Institutions & Organizations.
|
|
Missions.
|
|
Nuns.
|
|
Social conditions
|
|
Women missionaries.
|
|
Hong Kong (China) -- Social conditions -- 20th century -- Sources
|
|
China -- Hong Kong.
|
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
|
|
Diaries.
|
|
History.
|
|
Sources.
|
|
Biographies.
|
| Form |
Electronic book
|
| ISBN |
9780230604179 |
|
023060417X |
|
