Forgotten Souls
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Forgotten Souls

A Social History of the Hong Kong Cemetery

  1. 625 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Forgotten Souls

A Social History of the Hong Kong Cemetery

About this book

This book follows on from the mapping and recording of the about 10,000 graves that make up the Hong Kong Cemetery for a database which will be held in the archives of the Hong Kong Memory Project and the Royal Asiatic Society among other places. The silent tombs and elegantly carved inscriptions dating from 1842 up to the present day aroused curiosity in the author about who these long-buried people were and how they lived their lives. Lim has teased out from many sources the answers to these questions. This small, alien and rather disparate band of adventurers came from a number of far distant countries to live and work in the tiny and insignificant British foothold of Hong Kong on the edge of a huge and little understood empire. The book tries to show their relationships with each other and with their Chinese neighbours on the island. It has attempted to breathe life into the stories behind the gravestones so that the Hong Kong Cemetery can be viewed as a cradle of history as well as a final resting place for the dead.

Information

Publisher
Hong Kong University Press
Year
2011
Topic
History
eBook ISBN
9789888053742
Subtopic
Chinese History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Foreword
  3. Preface
  4. Introduction - The Hong Kong Cemetery, Its Position and History
  5. Section I - AN INTRODUCTION TO EARLY HONG KONG
  6. Chapter 1 - The Early Settlers, the First Opium War and Its Aftermath
  7. Chapter 2 - Events Affecting Hong Kong as They Involved the Lives of People Buried in the Hong Kong Cemetery
  8. Chapter 3 - How Early Hong Kong Society Arranged Itself
  9. Chapter 4 - Merchants, Clerks and Bankers
  10. Chapter 5 - Servants of the Crown
  11. Chapter 6 - Professionals
  12. Chapter 7 - The Merchant Navy
  13. Chapter 8 - Tradesmen, Artisans and Small-Scale Businessmen
  14. Chapter 9 - Beachcombers and Destitutes
  15. Chapter 10 - Missionaries
  16. Chapter 11 - The Americans
  17. Chapter 12 - The Armed Forces
  18. Chapter 13 - Women and Children
  19. Chapter 14 - The Chinese and Their Position in Relation to the Europeans
  20. Section III - YEARS OF CONSOLIDATION, 1861–1875
  21. Chapter 15 - Victoria City and Its European Inhabitants
  22. Chapter 16 - Hong Kong Society in This Period
  23. Chapter 17 - Hong Kong Becomes Cosmopolitan
  24. Chapter 18 - Government Measures and Their Effect on Society
  25. Chapter 19 - Changes Taking Place outside the Government
  26. Section IV - THE TURN OF THE CENTURY, 1876–1918
  27. Chapter 20 - Age of Empire
  28. Chapter 21 - The Disasters of These Years
  29. Chapter 22 - The Old Residents Section in the Hong Kong Cemetery
  30. Chapter 23 - Industry at the Turn of the Century
  31. Chapter 24 - The History of the Freemasons in Hong Kong
  32. Chapter 25 - The Chinese Buried in the Hong Kong Cemetery
  33. Chapter 26 - The Eurasians
  34. Chapter 27 - Other Nationalities: The Japanese and Russians Buried in the Hong Kong Cemetery
  35. Chapter 28 - The Second World War and Its Aftermath
  36. Appendices
  37. Notes
  38. Bibliography
  39. Index

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