Introduction / Cindy Yik-yi Chu -- Early beginnings of British community (1841-1898) / Gillian Bickley -- British attitudes toward Hong Kong in the nineteenth century / Gillian Bickley -- Nineteenth-century German community / Ricardo K.S. Mak -- Catholic church between two world wars / Cindy Yik-yi Chu -- Making of a Japanese community in prewar period / (1841-1941) / Benjamin Wai-ming Ng -- Stanley civilian internment camp during Japanese occupation / Cindy Yik-yi Chu -- Migrants from India and their relations with British and Chinese residents / Caroline Plüss -- American "China hands" in the 1950s / Chi-kwan Mark
Summary
This collection of essays describes adaptations of ethnic minority groups to cross-cultural situations in Hong Kong from the 1840s through the 1950s. It aims to portray Hong Kong history through the perspectives of foreign communities--the British, Germans, Americans, Indians, and Japanese--and to understand how they perceived the economic situation, political administration, and culture of the colony
