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Hong Kong Internment, 1942-1945
Life in the Japanese Civilian Camp at Stanley
Geoffrey Charles Emerson
Hong Kong Internment, 1942-1945 tells the story of the more than three thousand non-Chinese civilians (British, American, Dutch, and others) who were trapped in the British colony and interned behind barbed wire in Stanley Internment Camp from 1942 to 1945.
From 1970 to 1972, Geoffrey Charles Emerson interviewed twenty-three former Stanley internees. During these meetings, the internees talked about their lives in the Stanley Camp during the Japanese occupation.
Long regarded as an invaluable reference and frequently consulted as a primary source on Stanley since its completion in 1973, the study is now republished with a new introduction and fresh discussions that recognize later work and information released since the original thesis was written. Additional illustrations, including a new map and photographs, as well as an up-to-date bibliography, have also been included in the book.
Geoffrey Charles Emerson has lived in Hong Kong for more than forty years and taught history and English at St Paul's College. He was president of the Hong Kong History Society and is presently a council member of the Royal Asiatic Society (Hong Kong Branch).
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"Geoffrey Emerson has written a careful and detailed study of a much-neglected topic in the history of the Second World War - Japan's treatment of enemy civilians in one of its occupied territories. This book is solidly grounded in research and enlivened by pictorial sketches of camp life as well as by interviews with former internees. The result is a story of human endurance and survival amidst terribly trying circumstances over three and a half years." - Edward Rhoads, Professor Emeritus of Modern Chinese History, University of Texas at Austin, author of Manchus and Han: Ethnic Relations and Political Power in Late Qing and Early Republican China, 1861-1928
"Hong Kong Internment 1942-1945 brings to life a little known aspect of a hidden chapter in Hong Kong history. Drawing on a rich cache of artefacts and first person accounts, Geoffrey Emerson has put together an illuminating account of life behind barbed wire at Stanley. Engrossing, well documented and amply illustrated, this book is an excellent history of Stanley Camp." - Greg Leck, author of Captives of Empire: The Japanese Internment of Allied Civilians in China 1941-1945
"Emerson takes us on a fascinating journey into the lives of men and women interned at Stanley Camp, in some ways, a microcosm of Hong Kong's expatriate society. Beginning his research in 1970, he interviewed many internees, now long dead, and his sensitive treatment of their testimonies and other primary sources makes the book (with a reflective new reflection) rich and poignant reading. It is well worth waiting for!" - Elizabeth Sinn, author of Power and Charity: A Chinese Merchant Elite in Colonial Hong Kong
"Interweaving personal interviews and memoirs with factual details, Emerson reveals how these civilians adapted to and overcame the humiliation of internment and the vicissitudes of internment camp life." - Bernice Archer, author of The Internment of Western Civilians under the Japanese 1941-1945: A Patchwork of Internment
"Numerous personal memoirs and narrative accounts have appeared about Western civilian internment by the Japanese during the Pacific War, but few original academic studies have so far appeared. This important overview of Stanley Camp offers a fresh dimension to our understanding of a much-mythologized period of Hong Kong's history. First researched in the early 1970s when memories were still fresh, Hong Kong Internment, 1942-1945 offers numerous valuable insights into the camp's internal administration, politics and personalities, as well as fascinating glimpses of day-to-day life as a civilian internee." - Jason Wordie, author of Streets: Exploring Hong Kong Island
Table of Contents:
List of Illustrations
List of Abbreviations
Maps
Foreword
New Preface
New Introduction
Stanley Internment Camp, Hong Kong, 1942-1945: A Study of Civilian Internment during the Second World War (M. Phil. Thesis, University of Hong Kong, 1973)
Preface
Introduction
1. Politics: Governing the Camp - Repatriation - Executions
2. Life in the Camp I: Food - Clothing - Medical Matters - Diseases - The Red Cross - Accidental Deaths - Sex
3. Life in the Camp II: Education - Religion - Entertainment
4. Life in the Camp III: The Black Market - Crime - Escapes - The Tiger
5. The Final Months and Liberation
6. A Summing Up
A Note on Personal Interviews
Appendices
Additional Appendices
Bibliography
Additional Bibliography
Index
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Pub Date:
2008
ISBN:
CLOTH:
962-209-880-0
978-962-209-880-0
Price:
Cloth: $59.50s
Subject Listing:
Asian Studies, World War II
Bibliographic information:
268 pp., 6 x 9 in.
Distributed for:
Hong Kong University Press
Territorial rights:
North American rights only
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