Table of Contents; Illustrations; Foreword; Editor's preface; Preface; 1. The Treaty of Tientsin; 2. Sir Hercules Robinson 1862-1866; 3. Sir Richard Macdonnell 1866-1872; 4. Sir Arthur Kennedy 1872-1877; 5. Sir John Pope Hennessy 1877-1882; 6. Sir George Bowen 1883-1885; 7. Interregnum 1885-1887 Sir William Des Voeux 1887-1891; 8. Sir William Robinson 1891-1898; 9. Sir Henry Blake 1898-1903; 10. Sir Matthew Nathan 1904-1907; 11. Sir Frederick Lugard 1907-1911; 12. Retrospect; 13. Sir Henry May 1912-1919; 14. Conclusion; Appendices; Additional notes; Index
Summary
Geoffrey Robley Sayer (1887- 1962) completed this book before World War II as a sequel to his earlier work, Hong Kong: birth, adolescence and coming of age, which was published in 1937
