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HONG KONG FOCUS: HISTORY. EDUCATION. LEGAL. SOCIAL.

The books listed below are the product of considerable, lengthy and detailed research in many document depositories, libraries, and other institutions, and through contact with hundreds of most helpful individuals.

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BOOKS ARRANGED MAINLY IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER OF TITLE

Most Proverse Hong Kong titles can be seen and purchased at the Proverse page on the website of our Hong Kong based distributor, the Chinese University of Hong Kong Press: https://cup.cuhk.edu.hk/Proversehk

The Complete Court Cases of Magistrate Frederick Stewart edited by Gillian Bickley

Fascinating detail about daily life in 19th Century Hong Kong, the gateway between China and the West. Of general interest. Useful for historians and students of colonial law and colonial administration, Hong Kong (China) legal and social history.
Book in digital format presented on a CD.

SUPPORTED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE LORD WILSON HERITAGE TRUST
"Together [these brief reports] do even more for the modern reader than put him in the armchair of someone who took the China Mail in Victorian Hong Kong -- although that alone would be interesting enough. They provide him with a seat at the back of Mr Stewart's court, alive again and in session." -- The Hon. Mr Justice Bokhary, PJ.
Available from the Police Museum, Coombe Road, Hong Kong.
- $95.00
- In stock
The Development of Education in Hong Kong, as revealed by the Early Education Reports of the Hong Kong Government, 1848-1896... Edited by Gillian Bickley
Publishes for the first time as a complete sequence the full main text of fifty Hong Kong Government Reports on Education, submitted mostly annually by successive Hong Kong Governors to the Colonial Office in London as part of the official record.
Hbk with b/w archival photographs.
SUPPORTED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE LORD WILSON HERITAGE TRUST
"An essential resource for those researching colonial education policy." -- Norman Miners, University of Hong Kong, in The Journal of Imperial and Colonial History
- $75.00
- In stock
The Golden Needle: The Biography of Frederick Stewart (1836-1889) by Gillian Bickley

First published by the David C. Lam Institute for East-West Studies, Hong Kong Baptist University.
Pbk with b/w archival photographs.

Biography of the Founder of Hong Kong Government Education, first Head of the Government Education Department, first Principal of Queen's College (originally the Central School).
"Dr Bickley's life of Frederick Stewart is beautifully written, eminently readable, and at times moving." -- Lady Saltoun
"Bickley tells the story with unswerving admiration and many vivid touches." -- Douglas Hurd, The Scotsman
- $18.00
- In stock
A Magistrate's Court in Nineteenth Century Hong Kong: Court in Time. 1st ed. Edited by Gillian Bickley.
Contributions by Gillian Bickley, Verner Bickley, Christopher Coghlan, Timothy Hamlett, Geoffrey Roper, Garry Tallentire.
Preface by Sir T. L. Yang.
The court cases reported in The China Mail of the Honourable Frederick Stewart, MA, LLD, Founder of Hong Kong Government Education, Head of the Permanent Hong Kong Civil Service and 19th century Police Magistrate. Modern commentary and background essays with selected themed transcripts.
"The contributors have written with insight and understanding ... a most readable book." -- Sir T. L. Yang
- $25.00
- Not in stock
A Magistrate's Court in Nineteenth Century Hong Kong. Court in Time. 2nd ed. Edited by Gillian Bickley

Contributions by Gillian Bickley, Verner Bickley, Christopher Coghlan, Timothy Hamlett, Geoffrey Roper, Garry Tallentire.
Preface by Sir T. L. Yang.
The court cases reported in The China Mail of the Honourable Frederick Stewart, MA, LLD, Founder of Hong Kong Government Education, Head of the Permanent Hong Kong Civil Service and 19th century Police Magistrate. Modern commentary and background essays with selected themed transcripts.
With additional discussion of "The Opium Ordinance.
"The contributors have written with insight and understanding ... a most readable book." -- Sir T. L. Yang
- $30.00
- In stock

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Books. Publishing. International Literary Prizes.

HONG KONG FOCUS: HISTORY. EDUCATION. LEGAL. SOCIAL.

The Complete Court Cases of Magistrate Frederick Stewart edited by Gillian Bickley

The Development of Education in Hong Kong, as revealed by the Early Education Reports of the Hong Kong Government, 1848-1896... Edited by Gillian Bickley

The Golden Needle: The Biography of Frederick Stewart (1836-1889) by Gillian Bickley

A Magistrate's Court in Nineteenth Century Hong Kong: Court in Time. 1st ed. Edited by Gillian Bickley.

A Magistrate's Court in Nineteenth Century Hong Kong. Court in Time. 2nd ed. Edited by Gillian Bickley