Dispersal and renewal : Hong Kong University during the war years / edited by Clifford Matthews and Oswald Cheung.

Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, ©1998.
Description
1 online resource (xx, 462 pages, 17 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps, portraits.

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Available Online

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Summary note
In this volume, dedicated to the memory of Hong Kong University students, faculty and members of the Court who lost their lives as a result of hostilities in the Far East during 1941-1945, we ask what happened to the University during those years of Japanese occupation when there was only the shell of a campus left standing on Pokfulam Road. Though physically non-existent, the idea of the University persisted, as shown by the recollections here of twenty-five contributors, many of whom were students of faculty when war broke out. Their stories of imprisonment or escape, mainly to China, help to capture something of the spirit of those challenging times that eventually led to the re-establishing of the University in 1948 and its remarkable growth since then.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Reproduction note
Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.
System details
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Source of description
Print version record.
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Digital Editions from Hong Kong University Press
ISBN
  • 9789882201026 ((electronic bk.))
  • 9882201024 ((electronic bk.))
LCCN
2005365005
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