01269nam a2200169Ia 4500 20250721200114.0 250721s9999 xx 000 0 und d 9780300103731 940.535125 SNO Snow, Philip The Fall of Hong Kong Yale University Press 2003 530 pages The definitive account of the wartime history of Hong Kong On Christmas Day 1941 the Japanese captured Hong Kong, and Britain lost control of its Chinese colony for almost four years, a turning point in the process by which the British were to be expelled from the colony and from East Asia. This book unravels for the first time the dramatic story of the Japanese occupation and reinterprets the subsequent evolution of Hong Kong. "Magnificent. . . . The clarity of mind Snow brings to his labor of storytelling and contextualizing is] amazing."--John Lanchester, Daily Telegraph "Beautifully written, with many telling anecdotes."--Lawrence D. Freedman, Foreign Affairs "Very good. . . . Provides] a much more nuanced picture than has appeared before in English of life among Hong Kong's different communities before and during the Japanese occupation."--Economist History ENGLISH 576842 576842 0 0 0 0 ACL ACL 7B 2025-07-21 0 940.535125 SNO 123504 2025-07-21 20:01:14 2025-07-21 ENGLISH