| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 241 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
The 1920s, People and Weather -- The 1930s, Schools, Visitors, and Visits -- Advent of Japanese, 1938-1941 -- Japanese Occupation and Internment, 1941-1942 -- In and Out of the Camp, Releases, and Repatriation, 1941-1942 -- Postwar Years, the 1950s, the Early 1960s, and Refugees -- Resettlement Areas in the 1950s and the 1960s |
| Summary |
This book is a documentary survey of Hong Kong history, from the 1920s to the mid-1960s, from the perspective of the Maryknoll Sisters, as recorded in their diaries written during that period. A priceless collection of first-hand materials on the social history of Hong Kong, it also serves as a companion volume to the author's The Maryknoll Sisters in Hong Kong, 1921-1969 (Palgrave, 2004) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Maryknoll Sisters -- Biography
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Maryknoll Sisters -- Missions -- China -- Hong Kong -- History -- 20th century
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| SUBJECT |
Maryknoll Sisters. fast (OCoLC)fst00536961 |
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Nuns -- China -- Hong Kong -- Diaries
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Women missionaries -- China -- Hong Kong -- Diaries
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Religious.
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RELIGION -- Institutions & Organizations.
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Missions.
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Nuns.
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Social conditions
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Women missionaries.
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| SUBJECT |
Hong Kong (China) -- Social conditions -- 20th century -- Sources
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| Subject |
China -- Hong Kong.
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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Diaries.
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History.
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Sources.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780230604179 |
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023060417X |
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