... Kong Holiday, address many aspects of the crosscultural encounter in China and Hong Kong during the 1930s and 1940s. (Credit: Jason Wordie) Figure 2.4 Dr. Eleanor Thom envisioned an education for Chinese girls that prepared them for new realities in the post–World War II era. (Credit: Peter...

... Day Macao Hong Kong Pearl Harbour Japanese attack World War II British Consul British community Japanese invasion defence isolation The unbelievable had happened, the unbelievable inevitable, and Japan had attacked. True enough we had all realized that she would, sooner or later, but I...

... British interests World War II Portuguese attitude escape routes American interests Allied community Free China The situation was now not a little interesting. My flag, floating next door to the Japanese Consul’s, was the only Allied flag, apart from Chinese, for some distance, west to Yunnan...

... Christmas Day 1941 midnight Mass Macao morale Hong Kong John Reeves gambling World War II British Consul church Japanese invasion refugees This is a difficult subject to tackle but obviously needs a chapter to itself since it plays such an enormous part in the well-being of refugees...

... Marshall’ of Manchuria Police Force Hong Kong Stanley Internment Camp Sutton Frank ‘One Arm’ Wright Nooth George Zhang Zuolin ‘Old Marshall’ Aberdeen Harbour British garrison in Hong Kong Collinson AC MacGregor Iain Royal Naval Dockyard Hong Kong Wanchai World War II Hong Kong South China...

... guerrillas Japan Japanese occupation of China Mirs Bay Dapeng Wan Ping Chau Shataukok World War II Hong Kong South China Japanese invasion Chan Chak Mirs Bay Royal Navy motor torpedo boats As MTB 10 turned round after taking 11 halfway to Telegraph Bay and darted...

... Kendall FW Mike Leung Wingyuen Talan Monia John Wang Jingwei Zhangshu Pu Brazel Edmund C410 tugboat Macmillan Peter Pingshan Robinson William Bill Goring Arthur Jen Yu wen Police Force Chinese Sishui World War II Hong Kong South China Japanese invasion Chan Chak Waichow guerrillas...

... German Hitler Adolf Montague Hugh M Pearl Harbor Russia Russians United States American Ashby Ronald Ron Collingwood Cuthbert John Dashanxia Hakka McEwan Colin Zhenlong Churchill Winston on Hong Kong's chances MTB 07 Young Mark Yu Hanmou Goring Arthur MTB 10 World War II Hong Kong...

... Chenxin Chinese Communists Ford Bishop Francis Xavier Maryknoll mission Nine Peaks O'Brien William M United States American Guilin Lianping Longxian Nanhua Temple Bao Lin mountain India Indian World War II Hong Kong South China Japanese invasion Chan Chak Kukong Longchuan guerrillas...

... Jessen cargo ship Indian Ocean Alexander Harold Hide Stephen Buddy Police Force Burmese Rangoon River Shwe Dagon pagoda World War II Hong Kong South China Japanese invasion Chan Chak Rangoon Burma Heinrich Jessen Burma was to prove a shock. It was even more poorly prepared to deal...

... Cecil Harcourt Rear Admiral C H J Hongay Peel Sir William Shanghai British government education unofficals Hong Kong Governors Colonial Office UK Policy-making Sovereignty World War II Japan United States I find it more and more difficult to believe that the nature of our administration...

...China during World War II represented an example of civilizational imagination through a feminized body politic, and also revealed relational empowerment by highlighting a dependency narrative. A metaphor of feminine sovereignty, enacted by an eloquent female speaker, undergirded and strengthened...

... McFarlane J C Simpson William Chinese Exclusion Repeal Act 1943 Magnuson Act Magnuson Act Chinese Exclusion Repeal Act 1943 Pon Joan Pon Mrs F T SS Arawa Chinese Communist Party Leong Karen orientalism Wu Judy China Relief Shanghai Feminism in China Sino-Japanese War World War II YWCA Soong...

... Kong Volunteer Defence Corps HKVDC Mirs Bay Dapeng Wan Owen Hughes Harry World War II Hong Kong South China Japanese invasion Chan Chak Nationalist government SK Yee Henry Hsu Hong Kong's natural shape—almost like that of a theatre, with the harbour as its stage—ensured that almost everyone...

... Gloucester Hotel 16A Hsu Heng Henry Lane Crawford Mainland Brigade World War II Hong Kong South China Japanese invasion Chan Chak Francis Kendall Colin McEwan Monia Talan commando Z Force After a week of war, Hong Kong's once-teeming harbour had a desolate air. Junks and other native craft had...

... Harry Tern gunboat Wang Zhun Yu Hanmou World War II Hong Kong South China Japanese invasion Chan Chak Royal Navy torpedo boats The Japanese finally made their move on the island on the night of 18 December, crossing the harbour in the same area where the three men from Z Force had blown up...

... Corps HKVDC MTB 27 New Territories Parsons David Parsons Thomas Tom Tommy Shataukok Shouson Hill Thornycroft MTBs Young Mark Yu Hanmou Aberdeen Channel World War II Hong Kong South China Japanese invasion Francis Kendall Royal Navy torpedo boats relief army The arrival of Gilbert Thums...

... Butterfield & Swire Halladay Norman Industrial School Aberdeen Yorath John World War II Hong Kong South China Japanese invasion Chan Chak David MacDougall Royal Navy torpedo boats The motor torpedo boats were having their quietest day of the war. Lying in two secluded bays, they were sheltered...