Anglo-China : Chinese People and British...

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"Through meticulous research into hitherto neglected sources, Christopher Munn brings to life hundreds of individuals from all walks of life, across racial and class divides, who peopled early British Hong Kong – magistrates and murderers, compradores and crooks, lawyers and labourers, pirates and policemen – each of them playing a role in the drama that highlighted the irreconcilable gulf between the rhetoric and practice of the rule of law. While persuading us, with his elegant prose, rich data and lucid reasoning, to challenge conventional assumptions about Hong Kong history, Munn also sheds new light on the fundamental issues of justice, collaboration and resistance in the context of colonial ideology and colonial governance. He has set a new standard for the writing of Hong Kong and colonial history." – Elizabeth Sinn, University of Hong Kong

"A major contribution to the early history of Hong Kong. [Munn] has done an excellent job in challenging the established view and should be congratulated. His research is meticulous, his arguments well supported, and his case eloquently argued." – Steve Tsang, SOAS Bulletin

"A vivid picture of the daily life and experiences of ordinary Chinese in early Hong Kong... no previous writer has documented the darker side of British imperialism in Hong Kong in such detail." – Norman Miners, Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History

"This book will surprise any reader interested in the history of Hong Kong. Through meticulous research, Munn has discovered that an extraordinary 175,000 Chinese appeared before British magistrates from the 1840s through the 1860s. Colonial law not only intervened heavily in the lives of Chinese subjects; it followed a systematic bias, contradicting the comfortable notion that the British, despite whatever other failings, at least brought justice to China." – Timothy Brook, Run Run Shaw Professor of Chinese, University of Oxford

"Christopher Munn's book has greatly advanced our knowledge of the relations between Chinese and European colonists in Hong Kong in the 1840s–70s. All those interested in the history of Hong Kong should read this splendid work." – Tsai Jung-fang, The China Quarterly