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Thesis

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Articles

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Temples - Religion

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Architecture - Urbanism - Housing

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HKIA journal

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Archaeology

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Journal of the Hong Kong Archaeological Society

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Journals of RASHKB

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  • Publication Information [1]
    • Volumes 1-43; ISSN 0085 5774; EISSN 1991 7287
    • Volumes 44- ; ISSN 1991 7295; EISSN 2617 3239

Vol. 1, 1961

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  • The Study of Asia: A Heritage and a Task (Inaugural Lecture, Prof. F.S. Drake).
  • Birds of Hong Kong ("HK").
  • Flowers of HK.
  • The Knight Errant in Chinese Literature (the "Robin Hood" - yu-hsia - figure in poems and stories, mostly from Ancient China).
  • Tibet As It Was (before 1959).
  • The Morrison Library (an English language library in Canton, then in HK, then at the University of HK to date, with some notes on interesting books in the collection).
  • Buddhist Sources of the Novel Feng-shen Yen-I.
  • Buddhist Organizations in HK.
  • Chinese Burial Customs in HK.
  • Notes on a Collection of Chinese Books Presented to the Royal Asiatic Society ("RAS") by Sir George Staunton in 1824.

Vol. 2, 1962

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  • Nestorian Crosses and Nestorian Christians in China under the Mongols.
  • Currency Problems in a Cycle of Cathay (sycee, cash, and paper money in China before the last War).
  • The Buddhist Career (stages in the ordination and progression of Buddhist monks).
  • Chinese Seals.
  • Some of China's 35 Million non-Chinese.
  • Review Article "Britain and China" by Evan Luard.
  • Preliminary Report on the Finds at Shek Pik (archeological finds of Sung porcelain and coins).
  • Chinese Books in the Library of the RAS London.

Vol. 3, 1963

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  • Vol. 4, The Old Protestant Cemetery in Macau (description, with list of burials).
  • The Development of Printing in China, and its Effects on the Renaissance under the Sung Dynasty.
  • Flowers of HK.
  • Recent Changes in the Chinese Language (from late c19, to adoption of simplified characters).
  • The Old British Legation at Peking, 1860-1959 (history, description, plan).
  • European Navigation on the Yangtze (history from 1842 to the Last War).
  • Kashmir Holiday (description of).
  • Movement of Villages on Lantau Island for Fung Shui Reasons (in early c20).
  • An Old Fort at Tung Chung on Lantau Island.
  • A Note on the Names San On and Po On (the names of the county in which HK stands). What's Your Lingo? (origins of "lingo" in indo-portuguese dialects). (1963)

Vol. 4, 1964

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  • Journal of the Occurrences at Canton (transcript of the diary of W. C. Hunter on the Opium War troubles in Canton, with analysis).
  • Some Notes on Tung Chung (mostly the c19 history of the fort).
  • Loan-words in the Chinese Language (especially in Cantonese).

Vol. 5, 1965

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  • 1839" (Vol. 3).
  • A Map of the Pearl River Estuary (plea for such a map to be produced).
  • Village Archaeological Discovery in and Around HK (mostly neolithic).
  • Niah Cave, 1947-1964 (archaeological finds, palaeolithic).
  • The Population of China (reprint of article from China Branch RAS Transactions, 1855).
  • The Dialects of HK Boat People: Kau Sai.
  • Jen, Yu-wen (1965). "The Southern Sung Stone Engraving at North Fu-t'ang" (PDF). Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Branch. 5: 65–68. eISSN 1991-7287. ISSN 0085-5774.
  • Piracy on the China Coast (mostly c19-20).
  • The Chinese University of HK (background to its foundation).
  • Review Article of "Government and People in HK 1841-1962: A Constitutional History".
  • Additional Note on Article "Journal of Occurrences at Canton in Credit at Shek Pik, 1879-1895 (working of money-loan associations and loans from communal trust funds).
  • A Ceremony to Propitiate the Gods at Tong Fuk, Lantau, 1958 (ethnographical description).
  • The Tsang's Big House at Shatin (translation of newspaper article on Tsang Tai Uk, 1964). (1965)

Vol. 6, 1966

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  • A Plea for a Regional Approach to Chinese History: The Case of the South China Coast.
  • Sino-Western Contacts Under the Mongol Empire.
  • The Foreign Relations of Buddhism in Modern China (relations between Chinese and Japanese, Tibetan and SE Asian Buddhists, and with Christians, and others, especially 1911-1950).
  • The Hanlin Academy in the Early Ch'ing Period (1644-1795).
  • Words (mostly on Chinese for "peanut").
  • Some Loan-words in Cantonese (further to Vol. 4).
  • A Note on Land Measurement and Tenant Rentals in HK (traditional measures of land and quantity - tau and tau-chung). (1966)

Vol. 7, 1967

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Vol. 8, 1968

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  • Chinese Religion and Rural Cohesion in c19
  • The Hankow Steamer Tea Races
  • Notes on HK Libraries in the c19
  • Further Notes on the Sung Wong Toi (archaeological finds at, mostly Sung and 5 Dynasties)
  • Sun Yat-sen and Chinese History (Sun's use of history)
  • Review Article on "Capitalism and the Chinese Peasant: Social and Economic Change in a Chinese Village", by J.M. Potter
  • Chinese Street Cries in HK (reprint of article originally from China Review 1873)
  • Notes on Some Vegetarian Halls in HK belonging to the Sect of Hsien-T'ien Tao (The Way of Former Heaven)
  • Jardine, Matheson & Co's First Site in HK
  • Research on Family Values and Culture Change in HK's Modern Chinese Novels
  • HK's First Government House
  • A Reaping Knife from Lantau Island, HK
  • The Tung Chung Fort (Lantau Island, HK) (further to Vols. 3 and 4). (1968)

Vol. 9, 1969

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  • Chinese Unofficial Members of the Legislative and Executive Councils in HK up to 1941.
  • Militia, Market and Lineage: Chinese Resistance to the Occupation of HK's NT in 1899.
  • King Mongkut and the Kingdom of Siam (especially on relations with UK).
  • The Linguistic and Literary Value of Ming Dynasty "Mountain Songs".
  • The Chinese Descent System and the Occupancy Level of Village Houses (how village houses are inherited, and why most village families own more than one house).
  • Some Notes on Ethno-Botany in the NT of HK (plants and their uses to villagers).
  • The Mapping of HK (new series of maps).
  • Bethesda and the Berliner Frauenverein für China (the first foundling home in HK).
  • The Comet of 1532 (request for information).
  • What Inspired Sir J. Bowring's Hymn? (probably not St Paul's at Macau).
  • Books from the Victoria Library (further to Vol. 8).
  • Early HK Libraries.
  • Defence Wall at Pass between Kowloon City and Kowloon Tsai (description).
  • The Occupancy Level of Village Houses in the HK Region (further to article on the Chinese Descent System, above).
  • A Pair of Pottery Covered Jars found at Shek Pik, Lantau Island (Ming).
  • Kelly and Walsh (notes on history of this company).

Vol. 10, 1970

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  • More on the Yung-lo Ta-tien (Ming encyclopedia).
  • Lord Elgin and the Taipings (British relations with the Taipings).
  • HK Cadets, 1862-1941 (the senior cadre of HK Government officers).
  • Aspects of HK Marine Fauna (the fish trade).
  • A HK Butterfly.
  • Chinatown in HK: the Beginnings of Taipingshan.
  • Chinese Emigration and the Deck Passenger Trade (the coolie trade, and the reformed late c19, early c20 emigration trade).
  • Removing Some Barriers to Comprehension: A New Look at Some Cantonese Expletives (notes on learning Cantonese, and on grammar in general).
  • A British Maritime Chart of 1780 Showing HK (with identification of placenames).
  • HK Before the British (reprint of article originally from T'ien Hsia Monthly, 1940-41, on the early history of the HK area).
  • The J.O.P. Bland Papers (with brief calendar).
  • Visit to Old Shau Kei Wan 24 May 1969 (with notes of places visited).
  • Hemp (for rural clothing).
  • Coach Tour of Eastern HK Island 18 Oct. 1969 (with notes of places visited).
  • Hayes, James W. (1970). "The San on Map of Mgr. Volontieri" (PDF). Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Branch. 10: 193–196. eISSN 1991-7287. ISSN 0085-5774. (further to Vol. 9).
  • Hayes, James W. (1970). "A Casualty of the Cultural Revolution" (PDF). Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Branch. 10: 196–197. eISSN 1991-7287. ISSN 0085-5774. (re-establishment in the NT of the destroyed Tin Hau Temple from Sha Tau Kok)
  • Pile Houses at Tai O, Lantau Island, HK, 10 Jan. 1937. (1970)

Vol. 11, 1971

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Vol. 12, 1972

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  • Chinese Medicine and its Contribution to Modern Medical Science.
  • Some c19 Water Colours of Canton and the Far East.
  • Raja James Brooke and Sarawak: An Anomaly in the c19 British Colonial Scene.
  • The Establishment of the Tsungli Yamen: A Translation of the Memorial and Edict of 1861.
  • Sir J.H. Stewart Lockhart: Colonial Civil Servant and Scholar (HK Cadet from 1878, Colonial Secretary HK, 1895, later, Commissioner, Weiheiwei).
  • The Origins of HK's Central Market and the Tarrant Affair (scandals in HK, 1847).
  • Archaeology in HK and S. China (a report written in 1938, listing finds to that date).
  • Three Chinese Deities: Variations on a Theme (discussion of three different deities, and the process of canonisation - * Tai Sui, Fa Chu Kung and Cheng Ho).
  • Who Hoisted the Union Jack? (discussion of the takeover ceremony for HK, 1841).
  • China's Earliest Printing (a charm from the 750s).
  • Unusual Trees in HK: The Canton Water Pine.
  • A Note on Agricultural Change in HK (the change from rice to vegetables, and the social consequences).
  • Letting Go the Wooden Goose (note on a local custom).
  • Programme Notes for the Visit to Pokfulam, HK Island, 29 July 1972. (1973)

Vol. 13, 1973

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  • Transactions of the China Medico-Chirurgical Society, 1845-46.
  • Early Steamships in China.
  • Persians, Arabs, and Other Nationals in T'ang China.
  • Swatow (Ch'auchow)
  • Horizontal Stick Puppets.
  • Five c19 Kwangtung Art Catalogues.
  • Legends and Stories of the NT: Kam T'in (reprint of article from The HK Naturalist 1935-36, with note on the author, Sung Hok-p'ang)
  • "Ling Chih" at Canton, 27 May 1886 (transcript of contemporary account)
  • Hai Jui: Ming Patriot, Spark for Revolution, and God
  • Another Volonteri Map? (includes transcript of French account of HK, 1875)
  • W.T. Mercer (1822-1879) HK's Poet Laureate? (poems by the HK Colonial Secretary 1854-1867)
  • Old Bills of Lading (McMullen Collection) (calendar of the collection, which was donated to RAS in 1972)
  • Visit to the Sukhothai Sites in Thailand (Feb. 1973)
  • Deep Bay Marshes (use of mud-scooters). (1974)

Vol. 14, 1974

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Vol. 15, 1975

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  • Merchant Organisations in Late Imperial China: Patterns of Change and Development.
  • China's Economic Planning and Changing Geography (water control and railroad construction in China post 1949).
  • Incident between the Hong Merchants and the Supercargoes of the British East India Co. in Canton 1811.
  • Notes on Chiuchow Opera.
  • Condition of the European Working Class in c19 HK.
  • The Employment of Foreign Military Talent: Chinese Tradition and late Ch'ing Practice.
  • The Pacific Oyster Industry in HK (contemporary description).
  • Captive Surgeon in HK: The Story of the British Military Hospital HK, 1942-45 (memoirs of the Senior Medical Officer).
  • The Pottery Kilns at Wun Yiu, Tai Po (early c20 references to).
  • The Noon Day Gun (reference to Jardines taking over the gun in 1870).
  • The German Congregation in HK until 1914.
  • The RAS Photographic Survey of HK (position paper).
  • Boat People's Ceremonies Observed from Island House, Tai Po (wedding ceremonies).
  • Chief Marshal T'ien, Patron of the Stage, of Musicians, and Wrestlers, E. and S. China.
  • Chang Yu-tang and an Old Hanging Scroll from Cheung Chau (2 translations of biographies of the mid c19 local military commander, and references to surviving inscriptions and calligraphy).
  • Hung Hom: an Early Industrial Village in Old British Kowloon (c19 history).
  • Typhoon Preparations, 1903 (transcript of account of precautions taken by sampans). (1977)

Vol. 16, 1976

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  • Reflections on the Comparative Study of Modernization in China and Japan (in late c19).
  • The Teochiu: Ethnicity in Urban HK.
  • Interethnic Interaction - a Matter of Definition: Ethnicity in a Housing Estate in HK (Teochiu and Hoi Luk Fung people).
  • "Patterned Bands" in the NT of HK (weaving and use of Hakka hat ribbons).
  • A Hawaiian King Visits HK, 1881.
  • In Search of the Chinese Name for "Li Sun" (Chan Lai-sun, a member of Li Hung-chang's staff, merchant, and secretary-interpreter to the Hawaiian king's visit to China in 1881).
  • Chan Lai-sun and his family: a c19 China Coast Family (see above).
  • Notes on Friends and Relatives of Taiping Leaders (especially in HK).
  • Operation and Maintenance of a Road System in W. China, 1942-46 (the transport work of the Friends Ambulance Unit, China Convoy).
  • Land and River Routes to W. China: with Special Reference to the Upper Yangtze (c19).
  • In the Path of the Ancient Mon: Pagan, Pegu, and Nakom Pathom.
  • A Report on Social Research in the NT of HK (position paper of 1963, by Maurice Freedman, printed after his death).
  • Visit to the Tung Wah Group of Hospitals' Museum, 2 Oct. 1976.
  • Political and Pugilistic Freemasonry? (Chinese freemasons in USA as a front for triads).
  • Sandalwood Mills at Tsuen Wan (transcripts of early c20 references to).
  • Chinese in the Volunteer Forces of HK (further to Vol. 11).
  • A Missing Chinese Library? (present whereabouts sought for a Chinese library collected in 1911, by a US traveller).
  • Notes on Ho Chung, a c19 Artist in Kwangtung.
  • Preliminary List of the Baker Collection of NT Genealogies in the British Library.
  • The Occurrence of Troides Helena (Linn.) in HK (butterfly). (1977)

Vol. 17, 1977

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  • Brunei: A Historical Relic (history and descriptions of Brunei).
  • Behind Japanese Barbed Wire: Stanley Internment Camp, HK, 1942-45 (reminiscences of an inmate).
  • A Journey to Yenan 1946 (reminiscences).
  • Two Essays on the Ch'ing Economy of Hsin-an, Kwangtung (the first is on perpetual tenancy, the second on taxlordism - including sections on the old divisions of the County below the sub-district. Both concentrate on the c19).
  • Social Organization and Ceremonial Life of Two Multi-Surname Villages in Hoi-p'ing County, S. China, 1911-1949.
  • "Little Fujian (Fukien)" Sub-Neighbourhood and Community in North Point, HK (contemporary sociological study).
  • Cheung Chow - Long Island (reprint of article originally from The HK University Journal of Law and Commerce, 1929: description).
  • Memories of the District Office South, HK (by W. Scholfield, the District Officer in the 1920s: written in 1958).
  • Notes for the RAS Visit to Tai Mo Shan, 3 April 1976 (climate and botany).
  • Notes for a Visit to the Tang Family Graves 11 Dec. 1976.
  • RAS Visit to Tsuen Wan 10 Dec. 1977: A Village War (notes on the 1860s war between Tsuen Wan and Shing Mun, with notes on places connected with the war).
  • Bean Skim: A Product of Blood and Sweat (translation of an account by an old worker in this traditional trade).
  • Four Chinese Banks Fail, Partners Blame Head (transcript of article from The Washington Post Metro, Feb. 1978, of failure of Chinese money lending associations in USA).
  • Two Letters from Wartime China (transcripts of letters from missionaries at Pakhoi, 1938-1939).
  • A Further Note on Feng Yun-shan and Gützlaff (further to Vol. 16 on friends of Taiping leaders).
  • Reptiles New to HK. The Public Botanical Garden of HK (transcript of first regulations as to use).
  • Birds of Tai Mo Shan. Occurrence of the Frogs Rana Paraspinosa and Rana Spinosa in HK.
  • A Village War (further to above). (1978)

Vol. 18, 1978

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  • The reform of Military Education in Late Ch'ing China, 1842-1895.
  • Altar Images from Hunan and Kiangsi (notes on a collection of c19 images from this area, with their special characteristics).
  • Is Face the Same as Li?
  • A Critical Note on Agassi and Jarvie "A Study in Westernisation".
  • Ancestors in the Spring: the Qingming Festival in Central China (analysis of references to traditional practices).
  • The Politicization of Chinese Craft Organizations in Post World War II HK (KMT and left-wing rivalries in the trade union movement in HK).
  • Shiwan Pottery Explored (mostly the history of the kilns).
  • Village Government in China (transcript of Columbia MA thesis of 1933, giving description of contemporary findings).
  • Woodblock Printing, an Essential Medium of Culture Inheritance in Chinese History (history, and traditional printing practices).
  • Missing Maps: Sowerby's "Sport and Science on the Sino-Mongolian Frontier" (references to an unpublished compass traverse map of 1908-1912).
  • Brook's Gecko Found in Macau.
  • Mud Skis, or Scooters, Deep Bay, HK.
  • The Saintly Guo (Sheng Gong) (his worship in HK and elsewhere, further to Vol. 17 on "Little Fujian").
  • The Immortal Fan (his worship at Wun Yiu in HK, and background).
  • Ancestral Images (translation of an article, further to the article on Altar Images from Hunan, above).
  • The Cannons on the Wall of the Tung Chung Fort, Lantau Island, HK.
  • First record of the Pelobatid Frog Leptobrachium Pelodytoides (Boul) in HK.
  • Two Bibliographical Notices (two c19 books with references to authors' manuscript amendments). (1980)

Vol. 19, 1979

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  • Disturbance of Fung Shui on Tsing Yi Island 1977-1978 (reaction to, and ceremonies undertaken).
  • The Nam Pak Hong Commercial Association of HK 1868-1968 (transcription and translation of history of Association, 1960). (1981)

Vol. 20, 1980

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  • Stevens, Keith G. (1980). "Chinese Monasteries, Temples, Shrines and Altars in Hong Kong and Macau" (PDF). Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Branch. 20: 25–26. eISSN 1991-7287. ISSN 0085-5774.
  • Persistence and Preservation of Hakka Culture in an Urban Situation: A Preliminary Study of the Voluntary Association of Waichow Hakka in HK.
  • The HK Riots of October, 1884: Evidence for Chinese Nationalism?
  • Silk and Silver: Macau, Manila, and Trade in the China Seas in the c16.
  • Fung Shui, an Intrinsic Way of Environmental Design, Illustrated by the Case of Kat Hing Wai in the NT of HK.
  • Symbolism of the New Light (in the Taoist liturgy, and as compared with the Christian ceremonial of the Easter candle).
  • Rediscovering Our Social and Cultural Heritage in the NT (the importance of studying local history and anthropology, and the value of the NT in this).
  • A Hakka Wedding in HK (in May 1979).
  • China and the Beholder (difficulties of discovering anything about China by going there).
  • Chinese Religious Involvement with Islam (further to Vol. 19).
  • Is Chun Fa Lok the old name for Tsing Yi?
  • A Tun Fu Ceremony in Tai Po District 1981.
  • Lychees of Tsang Shing County, Kwangtung (notes on a special variety of lychee).
  • Local Reactions to the Disturbance of Fung Shui on Tsing Yi Island, HK, 1978-1980 (further to Vol. 19).
  • Another Missing Library (a library presented to a monastery in Chekiang in c16, described in 1933: seeks information on whether it still exists).
  • Yet Another Library (the McLeavy Brown Library, Korea, late c19).
  • A Missing Chinese Library (further to Vol. 16).
  • Maryknoll in China (further to Vol. 19).
  • Library of the North China Branch RAS (held now in the Shanghai Library).
  • The Popular Culture of Late Ch'ing and Early c20 China: Book Lists Prepared from Collecting in HK.
  • A Bibliography of Taoism in Oriental Languages.

Vol. 21, 1981

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Vol. 22, 1982

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  • Structure and Function in an Urban Organization: the Mutual Aid Committees (in 1970s HK).
  • Origin and Development of the Political System in the Shanghai International Settlement (concentrates on period 1849-1865).
  • The Strike and Riot of 1884: A HK Perspective.
  • The New Constitution and China's Emerging Legal System in Perspective (constitutional and legal history of China, 1949-1982).
  • Two Chinese Domestic Murders (in England in 1920s, and implications on early Chinese immigration to UK).
  • Phonology of a Cantonese Dialect of the NT: Kat Hing Wai.
  • The HK Amateur Dramatic Club and its Predecessors (with calendar of all amateur stage productions in English in HK 1841-1940).
  • Village Education in Transition: the Case of Sheung Shui (village education in early c20).
  • The Attempt to Assassinate the Governor in 1912.
  • Problems of the China Trade a Century Ago: Two Letters on Transit Passes (1879, letters transcribed and analysed).
  • The Village Watch in the HK Region.
  • Village Rules: Firecrackers in the Settlement of Disputes and in Token of Fines.
  • Canton Water Pines (Glyptostrobus Pensilis, Lamb) at Tai Hang Village, NT (further to Vol. 12).

Vol. 23, 1983

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  • Hayes, James W. (1983). "Secular Non-Gentry Leadership of Temple and Shrine Organisations in Urban British Hong Kong" (PDF). Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Branch. 23: 113–136. eISSN 1991-7287. ISSN 0085-5774. (mostly in early-mid c20)
  • Business Ideology of Chinese Industrialists in HK (contemporary).
  • Variation Technique in the Formal Structure of the Music of Taoist Jiao-shi in HK.
  • Dog Divination from a Dunhuang Manuscript.
  • An Ode on HK Composed by the Mayor of Canton in 1845.
  • Relics of HK and China in British Army and Regimental Museums.
  • An Imperial Chinese Banner Preserved in Kendal, England (relic of First Anglo-Chinese War).
  • A Relic of St Francis Xavier (preserved at Coloane, Macau).
  • A Ch'ing Cannon from Wyndham St HK.
  • Chue Mo Ping: A Fever Reported from Villages in the HK Region, and its Cure, Together with Other Village Remedies for Excess Heat.

Vol. 24, 1984

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  • Temple Oracles in a Chinese City (Tsim, their use and history).
  • Notes on the History of Tsuen Wan (from oral sources, mostly refers to early c20).
  • State Regulation of Prostitution in HK, 1857-1941.
  • The Pearl River Oyster Industry In and Around Deep Bay.
  • The Structure and Operation of Kei Wais (saline fish-ponds).
  • The Shanghai Municipal Council, 1850-1865.
  • The Chinese "Yue Lan" Ghost festival in Japan: A Kobe Case Study, 4 Sep. 1982.
  • Cheung Ah-lum: a Biographical Note (the Esing bakery proprietor, scene of the 1857 poisoning episode).
  • J.T. Woods in HK (the Australian priest-scientist, 1885, with transcript of his descriptions of HK).
  • Lime-making on Tsing Yi (translation of account by operator of a kiln).
  • Wai Cheung, a Kind of Rural Leader in the c19 HK Region.
  • Village Shops in the HK Region (late c19).
  • HK Hilltop Retreat for Cross and Lotus (Reichelt and Tao Fung Shan, 1930s).
  • Diocesan Boys School 70 Years Ago (by an Old Boy).

Vol. 25, 1985

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  • Tan Tse Tao: A Contemporary Chinese Faith-Healing Sect in HK.
  • The Government Cemetery at Happy Valley.
  • The Cult of the Dead in Ancient Rome and Modern China: A Comparative Analysis.
  • Found in a Pennsylvania Attic: Letters from China 1903-1906 (from an American lady missionary to an old schoolfriend: includes the text of the letters).
  • A New Source for Chinese Trade to Japan in the Seventeenth Century (the East India Company's papers).
  • The Decline of Tiu Chung as a Chinese New Year Flower.
  • The Country Boy who Died for HK (Sgt. Major J.R. Osborn).
  • A Republican Book of Receipts in United College Library (payments made in connection with the swearing of allegiance to Sun Yat-sen of Commander-in-Chief Chen Chiung-ming, 1920, and the subsequent military operations at Swatow).
  • The Nixon Scroll (details of a Tang scroll from Tunhuang owned by the RAS, and now loaned to the Fung Ping Shan Museum). (1987)

Vol. 26, 1986

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  • Immigrant and Social Ethos: HK in the Nineteen-eighties (the social anthropology of recent arrivals from China in HK).
  • J.J. Francis, Citizen of HK, a Biographical Note (a prominent c19 lawyer and public figure).
  • H.T. Jackman (1874-1928), Engineer, Public Works Department.
  • The HK Botanical Gardens: a Historical Overview (1844-1985)
  • The Minorities of Southern China: a General View.
  • Hainan Island, a Brief Historical Sketch.
  • A Sense of History (reprints of 34 short articles on c19 HK, and associated matters, by Rev. C. Smith originally printed in various publications).
  • More About the Kowloon Walled City (further to Vol. 20).
  • Lantern Festival, Cheung Chau, 10 Feb. 1971.
  • Visit to Mitsukoshi Department Store, Muromachi, Tokyo, June 1986.

Vol. 27, 1987

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  • China in the Eyes of French Intellectuals (from the c18 to the modern period).
  • Kowloon Walled City: Its Origin and Early History (from construction of the wall in 1847 to the last War).
  • Confused Gods: Huang Daxian (Wong Tai Sin) and Huang Yeren at Mt. Luofu (confusion between the popular HK God, Wong Tai Sin, and a different deity with a similar name).
  • Official and Oral Traditions about HK's Newest God (beliefs current in HK about Wong Tai Sin).
  • The British (Protestant) Cemetery at San Pedro, Makati, Manila, Philippines.
  • A Sense of History, Part II (reprints of 32 short articles on c19 HK, by Rev. C. Smith, originally printed in various publications: see also Vol. 26).
  • The HK History Project (details of the HK Oral History and document collection project).
  • Tam Kung: His Legend and Worship.
  • The Cannon in the Kowloon Walled City.
  • HK's own Boat People (the indigenous boat-people of HK Island).
  • Visit to the Iwataya Department Store, Fukuoka, Japan.

Vol. 28, 1988

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  • Pirates in the Pearl River Delta (late c18 and early c19).
  • A Brief History of Technical Education in HK.
  • Not So Calm an Administration: the Anglo-French Occupation of Canton, 1858-1861.
  • Through Historical Records and Ancient Writings in Search of the Giant Panda (considers whether the Panda is mentioned in ancient Chinese writings, and, if so, under what name).
  • The First Child Labour Law in HK (early c20 concern about child labour).
  • Legends and Stories of the NT: Tai Po (reprint of 1935 article: with following two articles, further to Vols 13 and 14).
  • Legends and Stories of the NT: Castle Peak (reprint of 1935 article).
  • Ts'in Fuk (reprint of 1938 article on the Coastal Evacuation of 1662-1669).
  • A Sentimental Journey into the Past of the Chan and Jong Families (late c19 and c20 memoirs of immigrant Chinese families in Hawaii, and their native place in Chung Shan County).
  • "The One Bright Spot in Shanghai": a History of the Library of the North China Branch of the RAS (1857-1948) (see also Vol. 20).
  • The Archives of the Basel Mission (extracts of two documents showing the light the archives throw on local S. China history).
  • The Lanterns of Chuko Liang (NT traditional hot-air balloons).
  • A Silver Bracelet with an Ancient Greek Coin found in Wewak, E. Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea.
  • The HK Milling Company's Failure.
  • A Note on Rice Hullers.

Vol. 29, 1989

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  • In the Steps of Lu Pan: Reminiscences of Building in HK (the building trade in HK from the 1950s).
  • HK, 26 Jan. 1841: Hoisting the Flag Revisited (discussion of the flag-raising ceremony at HK, and its participants: see also Vol. 12).
  • The Jade Emperor and His Family, Yu Huang Ta Ti (discussion of a group of deities, their history and worship).
  • The Fukienese Wang Yeh (Ong Ya [Hokkien]) (Pestilence Deities and Folk Heroes from Fukien and Taiwan).
  • The Kiukiang Incident of 1927 (by an eye-witness, from a manuscript of 1944).
  • HK, December 1941 - July 1942 (an eyewitness account of the fall of HK, and the first months of internment, from a manuscript of 1942).
  • Joss Stick Manufacturing: a Study of a Traditional Industry in HK.
  • Notes on the Robert Hart Papers at the University of HK Library (includes calendar of the papers).
  • A Song from Sha Tau Kok on the 1911 Revolution.
  • The Mutual Defence Alliance (Yeuk) of the NT (transcript and translation of documents relating to establishment of a Yeuk).
  • More on the Man the Emperor Decapitated (more NT legends of Ho Chen: further to Vol. 28).
  • The White Tiger (ritual at the opening of a new opera theatre or matshed).
  • British Chinese Labour Corps Labourers Buried in England (from First World War).
  • The History of HK, from a Village to a City (references to HK Island in Chinese historical sources).
  • Siu, Anthony Kwok-kin (1989). "Tai Yu Shan from Chinese Historical Records" (PDF). Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Branch. 29: 394–398. eISSN 1991-7287. ISSN 0085-5774.
  • Tung Lo Wan (Causeway Bay from Chinese Historical Records)

Vol. 30, 1990

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  • The Old Popular Culture of China and its Contribution to Stability in Tsuen Wan.
  • The "Syrian Brilliant Teaching" (a history of Nestorianism in China, especially Nestorian Archbishop Adam, 780s, and his translations).
  • China on the Brink of War (extracts from memoirs of an eyewitness to events in China, including Nanking in 1937, HK in 1938, and Shanghai in 1939-1941, from manuscript written in 1944: see also Vol. 29).
  • John Fryer's Early Years in China: II. First Impressions of HK (description written 1861, with short analysis; see also Vol. 29).
  • The Offering to the White Tiger in Cantonese Opera (ritual at the opening of a new opera theatre or matshed: further to Vol. 29).
  • Clues to the Life and Academic Achievements of one of the most Famous c19 European Sinologists - James Legge, 1815-1897.
  • HK Hongs with Long Histories and British Connections (notes on HK business history).
  • The Buddha, the Heavenly True Warrior (note on an obscure deity).
  • Altar Images from Hunan (further to Vol 18).
  • T'i Shen: a Substitute for a Person (images used as substitutes for a person suffering from disease).
  • The Making of a Husk-grinder.
  • The British Merchantman "Norna" (the wreck of the "Norna" in 1862, and the heroic rescue of its crew).
  • Report on Visit to Tai Hang Fire Dragon Dance, Mid Autumn Festival, 1992 (with notes on history of festival).
  • Sojourners in Xiamen: Notes on the RAS Visit. (1993)

Vol. 31, 1991

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  • Business Networks and Patterns of Cantonese Compradors and Merchants in c19 HK.
  • Private Patronage of Scholarship and Learning During the Mid-Q'ing: Ruan Yuan and the Scholars around him.
  • The Chinese Experience: Sino-American Arts Exchange, 1972-1986.
  • Guerilla Training, Maymyo 1941 (continuation of diary extracts, as in Vols. 29-30).
  • A Short History of the Heude Museum, 1858-1952 - its Botanist and Plant Collector (the Musée Heude, at Aurora University Shanghai, and its Research Offciers).
  • A Chinese Memorial Hall dedicated to Wang Te-lu, a Clan Hero (at Tai Pao, Taiwan).
  • A Note on Hong Kong's Wildlife.
  • To Become an Adult (description of Tanka ritual held before a girl is married).
  • The Re-occupation of Hong Kong, August 1945 (an eye-witness account). (1996)

Vol. 32, 1992 (Published in 1996)

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Vol. 33, 1993

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  • The Concern of a Nation's Face: Evidence in the Chinese Press Coverage of Sports.
  • The Lady Doctor's Warm Welcome: Dr Alice Sibree and the Early Years of HK's Maternity Service 1903-1909.
  • The Fukienese [Min-Nan] Cults: Pao-sheng Ta-ti, Ch'ing-shui Tsu-shih and San P'ing Tsu-shih.
  • Reflexivity in Research and a Question of Culture (a personal account of an exploration into cultural identity and self-awareness resulting from the process of doing research).
  • Tales of a Venerable Chinese Gentleman (reminiscences of an elderly Chinese of his childhood).
  • Taking a Godson (description of traditional adoption rituals and practices).
  • Visits [of the RAS] to the Swire Institute of Marine Science at Cape D'Aguilar 1993 and 1994. (1996)

Vol. 34, 1994

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  • Foreigners and Fung Shui (Reactions of non-Chinese to Fung Shui in Hong Kong, predominantly in recent years).
  • The Taking of Chapu, May 1842 (An incident in the First Anglo-Chinese War).
  • The RAS, HK Branch (A brief history, and reminiscences of the Branch and its Journal, with descriptions of various visits made by the Branch, and other notes on the Branch's practices).
  • The Study of Local History in HK: A Review (A brief history, and notes on the present position, and institutions involved).
  • Notes on Cheung Pao Tsai (An eighteenth century pirate of the area).
  • A Short Biography of Lai Chun Bun (A military officer, for 16 years in charge of the Kowloon garrison, one of the founders of the Fong Pin Hospital, Cheung Chau).
  • Yet More on the Man the Emperor Decapitated (further to Vols 28 and 29).
  • Special feature: An English Bibliography for China Studies. (1997)

Vol. 35, 1995

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  • Chinese Customary Law in HK's NT: Some Legal Premises (A report originally written in 1962 for internal Govt. use).
  • The Peking Opera (A general summary)
  • The Emperor in the Village: Representing the State in S. China (Legends, practices, rituals, state control of monasteries etc, political developments in the area, with analysis).
  • China Coast Pidgin English.
  • Life on the Fringes: The Biology of Mangroves and the Role they play in HK.
  • The Macintosh Cathedrals (A brief history of the Police Border Observation Posts).
  • Singapore's Disappearing Temples and the Decline and Apparent Demise of a Popular Religion Cult (Qixing Dadi).
  • Two groups of Chinese Deities Rarely Seen on Chinese Altars (The Six Patriarchs of Buddhism, The Seven True Ones of Taoism).
  • The Chinese Labour Corps in the First World War: Labourers Buried in France.
  • Experiences as a War Crimes Prosecutor in HK.

Vol. 36, 1996

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  • From Langming Ordination names to Gongming Imperial Degrees: Study of a Hakka Religious Practice and its Decline.
  • John Fryer's Early years in China, III: Account of Three Day Excursion on the Mainland of China (further to Vols 29 and 30).
  • The Hou-wang Cult and Tung Chung's Communal Culture.
  • A Study of the Objectives of Church Involvement in Education as Perceived by the Various Protestant Denominations in HK.
  • Business Involvement in Politics: Overseas Returned Chinese, HK Compradores, and the Canton Government, 1911-1924.
  • The Han Lin Academy and a Chinese Deity (Note on the Academy, and on a shrine seen on the backstage of a Chinese opera matshed, to a deity connected with the Academy, with request for information).
  • The Sepulchral Urn of Martim Afonso de Melo in Santarem (one of the first Portuguese to arrive in China).
  • Past Presidents of the RAS, HK Branch. Logo of the RAS HK Branch. (1998)

Vol. 37, 1997

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  • A Collection of Rare Photographs of Early Civil Engineering Projects in Hong Kong.
  • A Brief History of Reclamation in Macau.
  • The Royal Asiatic Society and Heritage Education.
  • Are the Tanka People Descendants of Mongol Soldiers?
  • Easter, 1997 in Shanghai: Notes on the Visit by Members of the Hong Kong Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society.
  • Visit by Members of the Hong Kong Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society to Huizhou, November, 1997.
  • Hong Kong Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society: Possessions on Permanent Loan to Other Institutions.
  • Honorary Members of the Hong Kong Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society.

Vol. 38, 1998-99

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  • Laughter Across the Great Wall-A Comparison of Chinese and Western Humour.
  • Images of Sinicised Vedic Dieties on Chinese Altars.
  • Weapons of the China Wars.
  • Naturalist, Author, Artist, Explorer and Editor, and Almost Forgotten President: Arthur de Carle Sowerby, 1885-1954, President of the North China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, 1935-1940.
  • Xu, the Taoist Perfected Lord Xu Zhenjun, the Protective Deity of Jiangsi Province.
  • Plum Puddings and Sharp Boys, “One Touch of Nature Makes the Whole World Kin”: An Analysis of the China Coverage in the Illustrated London News, 5 January to 23 September, 1861.
  • The Deification of Heroes Following the Struggle by the Vassal State of Chou to Overthrow the Shang Dynasty.
  • The District Watch Force.
  • Hong Kong (from the Notes of a Russian Traveller), translation of an article written by Iosif Antonovich Goshkevich in 1871.
  • Hong Kong, translation from a book chapter written by Ivan Alexandrovich Goncharov in 1853.
  • The Story of Stanley Fort.
  • The Story of Gun Club Hill Barracks.
  • First World War Labour Corp Cemeteries in Flanders.
  • Sir Ralph Moore and the 'Benin' Cannon of the British Museum and the Royal Armouries.
  • Photographs from the Hong Kong 1906 Typhoon contributed by Victoria Brown.
  • Arnold Graham, 1905-1996.
  • Translated letter from the Bishop of the Philippines to the King of Spain dated 1584.
  • The Drunken Dragon Dance and the Tam Kong (Tam Kung) Festival: Notes on the RAS HK
  • Visit to Macau, May 1997.
  • Bits of Broken China: The RAS visit to North-east China in Search of Colonial Remnants, 1999.
  • Another Dilemma for Today’s Youth in China.
  • An Irish Fantasy.
  • Backstreets of Beijing: Notes on the RAS HK Easter, 1998 Visit to Beijing.
  • Monument to the Westmoreland Regiment, The 55th Regiment of Foot, in Dinghai City on Zhoushan Island.
  • Tracing Graves in Hong Kong: Research Methodology.
  • An Unusual and Extraordinary Ancestral Image.
  • Photographs of the Function to Mark the Award of the Bronze Bauhinia Star to Dan Waters.
  • Visit to the Aurel Stein Collection of the British Museum by the Friends of the RAS.
  • The Life and Times of Sir Kai Ho Kai, a Prominent Figure in Nineteenth Century Hong Kong (Book Review).
  • The Golden Needle: The Biography of Frederick Stewart (Book Review).

Volume 39, 1999

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Volume 40, 2000

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  • Solomon Bard, Tea and Opium;
  • Teresa Kowalska, Tea, Ivory and Ebony: Tracing Colonial Threads in the Inseparable Life and Literature of Han Suyin;
  • Brian C. Fawcett, The Chinese Labour Corps in France, 1917-1921;
  • Keith Stevens and Jennifer Welch, The Celestial Ministry of Time;
  • Keith Stevens, Images on Popular Religion Altars of the Heroes Involved in the Suppression of the An Lushan Rebellion (AD 755-763);
  • Waters, Dan (2000). "The Two Obelisks at Tai Tam" (PDF). Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Branch. 40: 185–193. eISSN 1991-7287. ISSN 0085-5774.
  • Keith Stevens, Patron Deity of Prostitutes: Zhu Bajie;
  • Diana Slater, group photograph of the HKBRAS visit to Goa in 2000;
  • Barbara Park, A Walk along Harlech and Lugard Roads;
  • Dan Waters, Designatory Letters after an RAS Member's Name;
  • Dan Waters, photographs from the HKBRAS photographic exhibition held in January 2001 at the City University;
  • Dan Waters, A Brief History of Technical Education in Hong Kong, 1863-1980;
  • Dan Waters, more photographs from the HKBRAS 40th Anniversary Celebration Conference held on December 2000;
  • Dan Waters, The HKBRAS Volunteers;
  • More on the HKBRAS Trip to the Socialist Republic of Vietnam between 30 September and 6 October 2000;
  • Jack Lao Mou Chi, photograph of Hong Kong Harbour and Waterfront taken in 1954;
  • Peter Halliday, Some Thoughts on Love is a Many Splendored Thing;
  • Chiu Hang Shi, Amendments to the Article 'Yaumatei and the Yu Lan Festival' in 'In the Heart of the Metropolis: Yaumatei and its People';
  • Hayes, James (2000). "Model Village, Kowloon Tsai, Hong Kong". Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Branch. 40. eISSN 1991-7287. ISSN 0085-5774.

Volume 41, 2001

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Volume 42, 2002

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  • Andrew Abraham, The transfer of the Straits Settlements: A revisionist approach to the study of colonial law and administration ;
  • Chohong Choi, Between the nine dragons and a divine wind: How Hong Kong's weather might have affected an allied invasion to retake the territory;
  • Eve Lam, The Royal Asiatic Society (Hong Kong Branch): The faces, the stories and the memories;
  • Anne Ozorio, The myth of unpreparedness: The origins of anti-Japanese resistance in prewar Hong Kong;
  • Lauren Pfister, The proto-martyr of Chinese protestants: Reconstructing the story of Ch'ëa Kam-kwong;
  • Stephen Selby, Chinese archery: An unbroken tradition?;
  • Keith Stevens, The Yangzi port of Zhenjiang down the centuries;

Vol. 43, 2003

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  • How old is Shanghai's Longhua Temple?
  • Canton symposium: The world of the old China trade: the locales and the people.
  • A new discovery and its significance: The statutory declarations made by Sir Robert Hart concerning his secret domestic life in 19th century China.
  • Justice, law, and the proposed tribunal for the Khmer Rouge.
  • H.M.S. Hermes: China Station, 1930-1933.
  • Between Scylla and Charybdis: China and the Chinese during the Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905.
  • Photos from the HKBRAS trip to Canton, October 2003.
  • HKBRAS visit to Macau on 26th October 2003 to see an exhibition of George Smirnoff’s watercolours of Macau.
  • The making of Cornell Plant the pilot.
  • The history of the Belilios Star: Hong Kong's own life-saving medal.
  • Yet another angle on the Chinese Labour Corps in France, 1918.
  • The Middlesex ('Tyndareus') Stone.
  • Book Reviews:
    • Full Circle: A Life with Hong Kong and China.
    • The Silk Road, Art and History. (2005)

Vol. 44, 2004

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  • William Doberk – a stormy career: founding the Hong Kong Observatory.
  • The rise and fall of social, economic and political reforms in Hong Kong, 1930-1955.
  • Shanghai's lost libraries rediscovered.
  • German business in Hong Kong before 1914.
  • Gladys Aylward (1902-1970) with the muleteers of Shanxi, and spying for the Chinese.
  • Reminiscences of a Hong Kong herbal doctor: life at seventy.
  • A further Note on Taipa Fort and a Nineteenth Century Cannon.
  • The tea warehouses on Honam.
  • A further Note on A Tribute to Ian Morrison.
  • Resourceful tea hunters in Japan, a further Note on Tea and Opium.
  • A further Note on Hong Kong’s Chinese associations: their ceremonial occasions and their helpers.
  • Xanadu: encounters with China.
  • A report on the Exhibition at the National Library of Australia, 19 August-14 November 2004.
  • Book Reviews:
    • Administering Empire: an annotated checklist of personal memoirs and related studies.
    • China Illustrated: western views of the Middle Kingdom. (2006)

Vol. 45, 2005

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  • "With the ease and grace of a born bishop?" – re-evaluating James Legge's contributions to secular and religious education in Hong Kong.
  • Colin McEwan’s Diary: the battle for Hong Kong and escape into China.
  • Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps, Number 3 (Machine Gun) Company.
  • High-class opium houses in Canton during the 1930s.
  • Charles Henry Brewitt-Taylor, 1857-1938: translator and Chinese Customs Commissioner.
  • Revisiting Chonquing: China’s Second World War Temporary National Capital.
  • Old guns found at Arsenal Street, Hong Kong – a preliminary report on some excavated gun barrels.
  • The Foreign Office and Hong Kong.
  • A further Note on The Colourful Douglas Lapraik (1818-1869).
  • Alfred James Hadley and the Chinese Labour Corps.
  • Early references to the rhinoceros on the Chinese island of Hainan.
  • Book Reviews:
    • A Dictionary of Cantonese Slang. Education in Hong Kong, 1941 to 2001: visions and revisions.
    • Helena May: the person, the place and 90 years of history in Hong Kong.
    • The Maryknoll Sisters in Hong Kong, 1921-1969: in love with the Chinese.
    • Maquista chapado: vocabulary and expressions in Macao's Portuguese creole.
    • One couple, two cultures: 81 Western-Chinese couples talk about love and marriage.

Vol. 46, 2006

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  • Hong Kong Legacy: A Swedish Connection.
  • Henri Vetch (1898-1978): Soldier, Bookseller and Publisher.
  • The First Steam-Powered Ascent Through the Yangtse Gorges.
  • Book Reviews:
    • The Canton Trade: Life and Enterprise on the China Coast, 1700-1845.
    • China Trade and Empire: Jardine Matheson & Co. and the Origins of British Rule in Hong Kong 1827-1843.
    • Colonialism and the Hong Kong Mentality.
    • Edge of Empires: Chinese Elites and British Colonials in Hong Kong.
    • The Great Difference: Hong Kong's New Territories and its People 1898-2004.
    • The Poetic Mandarin. Windows on a Chinese Past.
    • Huang Jia Yazhou Wenhui Bei Zhongguo Zhihui Yanjiu (A Study of the Royal Asiatic Society North China Branch).

Vol. 47, 2007

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  • The Shaping of Hong Kong’s Central Business District.
  • Uk Tao Village and the books of Cheng Yung.
  • The Hong Kong Mint: the History of an Early Engineering Experiment.
  • An Undiplomatic Foray: a 1967 Escapade in Macau.
  • Yang Laoda, the Spirit of the Yangzi, and Related Gods of the Yangzi and its Tributaries.
  • RAS Visit to No.1 Chatham Path, Hong Kong.
  • Book Reviews:
    • A Concise History of Hong Kong.
    • Hands on or Hands Off.
    • Letters to my grandchildren.
    • Where empires Collided: Russian and Soviet Relations with Hong Kong.

Vol. 48, 2008

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Vol. 49, 2009

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  • CAMPHORWOOD CHESTS AND THE CHINA TRADE, CULLEN WILDER, 14 pages
  • WORLD WAR Ⅱ SMALL COASTAL GUN CASEMATES,PILLBOXES,AND OPEN MACHINE GUN POSITIONS ON HONG KONG ISLAND IN PHOTOS, STEPHEN N. G. DAVIES LAWRENCE W. C. LAI Y. K. TAN, 35 pages
  • YIP HING FAI AND THE TRAINING OF AN OPTOMETRIST IN POSTWAR HONG KONG, JAMES HAYES KO TIM, 11 pages
  • WILLIAM HENRY LOW'S CANTON TRADES: READING OF A LETTER BY A YOUNG AMERICAN MERCHANT ABOUT HIS WORK IN CANTON,1840-1841, ALAIN LE PICHON, 21 pages
  • The price and consumption of salt in China in 1901, Patrick H. Hase SE YAN, 92 pages
  • CHUSAN'S POSITION IN THE CHINA TRADE, ROBIN BRIDGE, 10 pages
  • AN AMERICAN FAMILY'S MISSION IN EAST ASIA,1838 TO 1936: A COMMITMENT TO GOD,ACADEMIA AND EMPIRE, PETER HAMILTON, 37 pages
  • PAUL TSUI KA CHEUNG, 1916-1994, 7 pages
  • FURTHER NOTE ON HENRI VETCH: SOLDIER,BOOKSELLER AND PUBLISHER, PETER CUNICH, 3 pages
  • A FURTHER NOTE ON THE HONG KONG MINT, CHRIS COWELL, 3 pages
  • STANLEY CIVILIAN INTERNMENT CAMP,HONG KONG: SIXTY YEARS ON, GREG LECK, 7 pages
  • British rule in China: law and justice in Weihaiwei,1898-1930,by Carol G. S. Tan London: Wildy,Simmonds and Hill Publishing,xxiii + 340 pages. ISBN 978-096-490-026-8. (Reviewed by Peter Wesley-Smith), 1 page
  • City between Worlds: my Hong Kong,by Leo Ou-fan Lee The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,2008,322pp. (Reviewed by Dan Waters), 4 pages
  • Different worlds of discourse: transformations of gender and genre in late Qing and early Republican China,by Nanxiu Qian,Grace S. Fong and Richard J. Smith eds. Leiden and Boston: Brill NV,2008. 415 + xi pages. (Reviewed by Betty Wei Peh Ti), 4 pages
  • The Dragon and the Crown: Hong Kong memoirs,by Stanley S.K.Kwan and Nicole Kwan Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press,2009. (Reviewed by John Strickland), 2 pages
  • Hong Kong Identity and History - a review article, Oliver James Brearey, 25 pages
  • A Sense of place: Hong Kong west of Pottinger Street,edited by Veronica Pearson and Ko Tim-Keung Hong Kong: Joint Publishing (H.K.) company limited,2008. (Reviewed by Christopher Munn), 2 pages
  • Taken in Hong Kong - December 8,1941: memoirs of Norman Briggs,World War Ⅱ prisoner of war,by Carol Briggs Waite Baltimore: Publish America, 2006. 250 pages. ISBN 1-4241-1301-6 (Reviewed by Geoffrey Emerson), 3 pages
  • Watching over Hong Kong: private policing 1841-1941,by Sheilah Hamilton Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press,2008. RAS Hong Kong Studies Series. (Reviewed by Michale Broom), 2 pages
  • Professor Constance Mary Turnbull (Rayner), Peter Cunich, 3 pages
  • DAVID GREGORY JEAFFRESON, Henry Ching, 3 pages

Vol. 50, 2010

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Articles

  • The Canton system: conflict and accommodation in the contact zone, John M. Carroll, 16 pages
  • Smuggling networks of the Pearl River Delta before 1842: implications for Macau and the American China trade, Paul A. Van Dyke, 31 pages
  • Howqua and the Howqua: how a Chinese monolist saved American free-traders from financial ruin, Alain Le Pichon, 23 pages
  • Treaty ports and other foreign stations in China, Robert Nield, 17 pages
  • Hong Kong during the Sino-French War (1884-85): impressions of a French Naval Officer, David Wilmshurst, 23 pages
  • Manuscript documents in the life and culture of Hong Kong villages in late imperial China, James W. Hayes, 80 pages
  • Coastal shipping in East Asia in the late nineteenth century, Bert Backer, 58 pages
  • Abandoning the outpost: rejection of the Hong Kong purchase scheme of 1938-39, Franco David Macri, 14 pages
  • The Hong Kong Dockyard Defence Corps, 1939-41, Tony Banham, 26 pages
  • The South China Daily News and Wang Jingwei's peace movement, 1939-41, Lawerence M. W. Chiu, 28 pages

Biographical note

  • Sir Sydney Caine: Hong Kong's First Financial Secretary, Norman Miners, 7 pages

Notes and queries

  • Further note on 'Foreign death in China', Mark MacAlpine, 1 page

Book reviews

  • Light and shade: sketches from an uncommon life, by Solomon M. Bard (2009), Reviewed By Ron Hill, 3 pages
  • Resist to the end: Hong Kong 1941-1945, by Charles Barman (ed. By Ray Barman, 2009), Reviewed By Bernice Archer, 3 pages
  • History of photography in China, 1842-1860, by Terry Bennett (2009), Reviewed By Valery Garrett, 3 pages
  • Public success, Private sorrow: the life of Charles Henry Brewitt-Taylor (1857-1938), China customs commissioner and pioneer translator, by Isidore Cyril Cannon (2009), Reviewed By Catherine Ladds, 2 pages
  • East river column: the Hong Kong guerillas in the second World War and after, by Chan Sui-jeung (2009), Reviewed By Sue Ebury, 3 pages
  • British naturalists in Qing China: science, empire and cultural encounter, by Fa-ti Fan (2009), Reviewed By Frances Wood, 2 pages
  • Diamond Hill: Memories of growing up in a Hong Kong squatter village, by Feng Chi-sun (2009), Reviewed By Alan Smart, 2 pages
  • So great a profit: how the East indies trade transformed Anglo-American capitalism, by James R. Fichter (2010), Reviewed By Alain Le Pichon, 5 pages
  • Protestants in nineteenth-century Macau: an anthology, by Betty Jean Lofland & Michael Nai-Chiu Poon (2009), Reviewed By Richard Garrett, 3 pages
  • Rivalry in Canton: the control of Russell and Co, 1838-1840 and the Founding of Augustine Heard & Co, by Tim Sturgis (2006), Reviewed By Frederick D. Grant Jr., 3 pages
  • Changing places: the remarkable history of the Hong Kong shipowners, by Stephanie Zarach (2007), Reviewed By Stephen Davies, 2 pages

Vol. 51, 2011

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  • Thomas Kuyck Van Mierop, East India Company Supercargo in Macau.
  • Rules on the Protection of Village Trees in the New Territories and Associated Matters.
  • Early Steam Powered Navigation on the Lower Yangtse River.
  • Early Freemasonry in Hong Kong: Joseph Emanuel and the Formation of Lodge St John No. 618 SC.
  • Hospitals on the Peak.
  • Witness to the Revolution: Surgeon Lieutenant Bertram Bickford on the China Station, 1910-12.
  • Love and Revolution in South China: The Church Missionary Society and the 1911 Revolution.
  • The Shensi Relief Column and the Legion of Frontiersmen, China Command, 1911-12.
  • Upland World War II Headquarters, Pillboxes and Observation Posts on Hong Kong Island.
  • Canadians Under Fire: C Force and the Battle of Hong Kong, December 1941.
  • Lan Yuan: A Suzhou Garden in Distant Nanyang.
  • Geoffrey Bonsall : His Career in the Friends Ambulance Unit, China Convoy.
  • Further Note on 'Foreign Death in China': A Rejoinder.
  • Marco Polo in the Fujian Region of South China: An Environmental Interpretation.
  • Passing Through: William Bundey in Hong Kong.
  • Chinese Workers in the First World War.
  • Book Reviews:
    • Cantonese Society in Hong Kong and Singapore: Gender, Religion, Medicine and Money: Essays by Marjorie Topley.
    • The China Coast: Trade and the First Treaty Ports.
    • The Defences of Macau: Forts, Ships and Weapons over 450 Years.
    • The Diamond Sutra: The Story of the World's Earliest Dated Printed Book.
    • Early China Coast Meteorology: The Role of Hong Kong.
    • For the Future: Sir Edward Youde and Educational Changes in Hong Kong.
    • Forgotten Souls: A Social History of the Hong Kong Cemetery.
    • The Making of Hong Kong: From Vertical to Volumetric
      • Shelton, Barrie; Karakiewicz, Justyna; Kvan, Thomas (2010). The Making of Hong Kong: From Vertical to Volumetric. Routledge. ISBN 978-0415487016.
    • Southern District Officer Reports: Islands and Villages in Rural Hong Kong, 1910-60.
    • Thomas Sutherland: A Great Victorian.
    • Tales of Old Hong Kong: Treasurers from the Fragrant Harbour.

Vol. 52, 2012

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  • Taking Business to the Tiger's Gate: Thomas Handasyd Perkins and the Boston-Smyrna-Canton Opium Trade of the Early Republic.
  • Lieutenant Charles Cameron's Opium War Diary.
  • China's Southernmost Treaty Port.
  • Monopoly, Transaction and Extortion: Public Market Franchise and Colonial Relations in British Hong Kong, 1844-58.
  • George Hennessy, an Irishman in the Hong Kong Police.
  • Portrait of a Practical Visionary, Father Léon Robert MEP and the Sisters of St Paul de Chartres in Hong Kong, 1914-19.
  • Lai Jixi and the Development of Chinese Education at the University of Hong Kong.
  • A Short Note on a Petition for the removal of Mosque Village or Shek Tong Tsui by the Colonial Authorities in 1866.
  • 'Small Papers': More on the New Territories Cadastral Survey and Settlement of Titles to Land, 1900-05.
  • The Education of Boys in Hong Kong Villages.
  • Paul Tsui's Note on Ham Tin Village, Pui O, South Lantau, 1950.
  • A Visit to China during the Cultural Revolution.
  • Book Reviews:
    • 150 Years of Evangelization in Tai Po: 50 Years of Foundation of the Church.
    • Ancestral Images: A Hong Kong Collection.
    • Chinese Communists and Hong Kong Capitalists, 1937-97.
    • Décadence Mandchoue.
    • Dictionary of Hong Kong Biography.
    • A Dictionary of Hong Kong English: Words from the Fragrant Harbour.
    • Escape from Hong Kong: Admiral Chan Chak's Christmas Day Dash, 1941.
    • The Eurasian Face.
    • The Fall of the Pagoda and The Book of Changes.
    • Ghetto at the Centre of the World: Chunking Mansion, Hong Kong.
    • Hong Kong Corner Houses.
    • Macau History and Society.
    • Hong Kong's Watershed: the 1967 Riots.
    • Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-1962.
    • Midnight in Peking: How the Murder of a Young Englishwoman Haunted the Last Days of Old China.
    • The Scramble for China – Foreign Devils in the Qing Empire, 1832-1914.
    • Troubling American Women: Narratives of Gender and Nation in Hong Kong.

Vol. 53, 2013

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  • Sham Shui Po: The Centre of Poverty in Hong Kong.
  • Purchase of Degrees, Rank, and Appointment in Late Qing China : Some Impressions from Contemporary Sources.
  • Death at the Races: the Portuguese Presence during the Happy Valley Fire of 1918.
  • The Principal Datum: Some Puzzles Associated with the Rifleman's Bolt.
  • Temple Dedicated to Emperor Yao in Yaocheng, Shanxi.
  • Fox Spirits (Huli).
  • Knowing Chinese Women: Richard Tottenham and Colonial Medicine in Interwar Hong Kong.
  • 'Why Don't We Take Drama as Facts?' – Observations on Cantonese Opera in a Rural Setting.
  • The Martyrdom of Father Marcello Mastrilli S.J.
  • A Forgotten Qing Era Progressive: Kwong Ki Chiu – Lexicographer, Interpreter, Textbook Author, Newspaper Publisher.
  • The Villager and the Aviator: Early Aviation in Village Frescoes.
  • The Incident at Chek Pik and Murals at Shan Tsui.
  • Book Reviews:
    • The Chinese of Macau: A Decade after the Handover.
    • Pacific Crossing: California Gold, Chinese Migration and the Making of Hong Kong.
    • A History of the University of Hong Kong, Volume 1, 1911-1945.
    • Hong Kong, French Connections: From the 19th Century to the Present Day.
    • Lao Ashe in London.
    • Knowledge is Pleasure: Florence Ayscough in Shanghai.
    • Scottish Mandarin: The Life and Times of Sir Reginald Johnston.
    • Governor, Politics and the Colonial Office: Public Policy in Hong Kong 1918-58.
    • Imperia to International: A History of St. John's Cathedral, Hong Kong.
    • Chusan: The Forgotten Story of Britain's First Chinese Island.
    • The British Presence in Macau, 1635-1793.

Vol. 54, 2014

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Articles

  • 1 Anglo-Japanese alliance, the first World War, and the defence of Hong Kong: The emergence of the first landward defence line in Hong Kong, 1898-1918. Man, Kwong Chi
  • 3 Traces of a modern Hong Kong architectural practice: Chau and Lee architects, 1933-1991. Lau, Leung-Kwok Prudence
  • 4 A short history of the Hong Kong Chinese regiment. Banham, Tony
  • 5 Cornell plant, lost girls and recovered lives Sino-British relations at the human level in late Qing and early Republican China. Brandmeyer, Polly Shih
  • 6 From monopoly to free trade: How the introduction of competition in the tea export trade of China heralded the end of the Hong system, 1833-1838. Le Pichon, Alain
  • 7 The indentured coolie trade from Macao. Asome, John

Biographical Notes

  • 8 The legacy of Dr Kok Cheang Yeo-the first Chinese Director of medical and health services in Hong Kong. Mo, Mimi
  • 9 Wu Tingfang (Ng Choy): The philanthropist. O'Brien, Roderick
  • 10 Achille-Antoine Hermitte (1840-70?). Davies, Stephen

Notes and Queries

  • 11 The hillside escalator link. Garrett, Richard J
  • 12 Hong Kong before the days of air-conditioning. Waters, Dan

Book Reviews

  • 13 Custom, land and livelihood in rural South China: The traditional land law of Hong Kong's New Territories, 1750-1950 [Book Review]. Dicks, Anthony
  • 14 Hong Kong war crimes trials [Book Review]. Day, Colin
  • 15 Portugal, China and the Macau negotiations, 1986-1999 [Book Review]. Lo, Sonny
  • 16 Macao: People and places, past and present [Book Review]. Porter, Jonathan
  • 17 The lone flag, memoir of the British consul in Macao during World War II [Book Review]. Le Pichon, Alain
  • 18 East sails west: The voyage of the Keying, 1846-1855 [Book Review]. Grant, Frederick D
  • 19 Poverty in the midst of affluence: How Hong Kong mismanaged its prosperity [Book Review]. Ching, Frank
  • 20 Clash of empires in South China: The allied nations proxy war with Japan, 1935-1941 [Book Review]. Farrell, Brian P
  • 21 An Irishman in China: Robert Hart, inspector general of the Chinese imperial maritime customs [Book Review]. Nield, Robert
  • 22 Gage street courtesan [Book Review]. Kerr, Douglas
  • 23 Books of interest

Obituaries

  • 24 John Mark Kynaston MacAlpine 1942-2014. Broom, Michael

Reports for 2013-14

  • 25 President's report. Broom, Michael B
  • 26 Librarian's report for the year 2013-2014. Chan, Edith
  • 27 Hon. activities co-ordinator's report for the year 2013. Broom, Michael B
  • 28 Treasurer's report for the year ending 31 December 2013. Carmichael, Connie
  • 29 Friends of the Hong Kong branch of the royal asiatic society annual report 2014. Bolding, Paul

Vol. 55, 2015

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Articles

  • 1 Fever city: Dengue in colonial Hong Kong. Meerwijk, Maurits Bastiaan
  • 2 Street tree planting in Hong Kong in the early colonial period (1842-98). Pryor, Mathew Robert
  • 3 The career of Utsuki Nishuin Hong Kong during the Japanese occupation period (1941-1945). Mak, Bill M
  • 4 Hong Kong Eurasians. Sweeting, Tony; Cunich, Peter
  • 5 Sha Tin - the building of a New Town. Garrett, Richard J
  • 6 Robert Crisp Hurley (1848-1927): Hong Kong guidebook pioneer. Wattis, Jonathan
  • 7 Images on Taiwanese temple altars of Koxinga and his generals. Stevens, Keith G
  • 8 Creating Liu Fang Yuan (the garden of flowing fragrance) in California. Li, T June
  • 9 Busseboom thirteen (individual's details, grave, etc.). Fawcett, Brian

Book Reviews

  • 10 Free Trade's first missionary: Sir John Bowring in Europe and Asia [Book Review]. England, Vaudine
  • 11 Old Hong Kong [Book Review]. Bellis, David
  • 12 Introduction to the Hong Kong Basic Law [Book Review]. Bowring, Philip
  • 13 Eastern fortress: A military history of Hong Kong, 1840-1970 [Book Review]. Macri, Francis David
  • 14 Islam in Hong Kong: Muslims and everyday life in China's world city [Book Review]. Frankel, James D
  • 15 China's foreign places, the foreign presence in China in the treaty ports era, 1840-1943 [Book Review]. Le Pichon, Alain
  • 16 The golden ghetto: The American commercial community at Canton and the shaping of American China policy, 1784-1844 [Book Review]. van Dyke, Paul
  • 17 Custom, land and livelihood in rural South China: The traditional land law of Hong Kong's new territories, 1750-1950 [Book Review]. Hase, Patrick H

Obituaries

  • 18 Solomon Matthew Bard 1916-2014. Day, Colin
  • 19 Anthony Johnston Hedley 1941-2014. Fielding, Richard

Reports for 2014-2015

  • 20 President's report
  • 21 Hon. activities co-ordinator's report for the year 2014
  • 22 The Sir Lindsay and lady ride memorial fund report of the trustees and financial statements for the year ended 31st December 2013
  • 23 Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong branch - financial report for the year ending 31 December 2014

Vol. 56, 2016

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Editorial

  • 1 The new format. Davies, Stephen

Articles

  • 2 More than a potential threat: The PRC's intervention during the double tenth incident. Li, Chu Wai
  • 3 The Hong Kong week of 1967 and the emergence of Hong Kong identity through contradistinction. Tong, Clement Tsz Ming
  • 4 Writ in water: Ancestry among Cantonese boat populations. Aijmer, Goran
  • 5 Davies, Stephen; 戴偉思 (2016), "Achille-Antoine Hermitte's Surviving Building / 阿基里‧ 安當‧ 埃爾米特的倖存建築", Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Branch, 56, Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Branch: 92–110, JSTOR jroyaaisasocihkb.56.92
  • 6 Chinese customary law revisited. Hayes, James
  • 7 Sinicising Christian architecture in Hong Kong: Father Gresnigt, catholic indigenisation, and the South China Regional Seminary, 1927-31. Coomans, Thomas
  • 8 The Margary memorial. Nield, Robert
  • 9 The Anglo-Chinese propaganda battles: British, Qing and Cantonese intellectuals and the first opium war in Canton. Abe, Kaori

Book Reviews

  • 10 Memories of the police in Hong Kong. Hodson, David
  • 11 Merchants of Canton and Macao, Vol. 1, politics and strategies in eighteenth-century Chinese trade; Merchants of Canton and Macao, Vol. 2, success and failure in eighteenth-century Chinese trade [Book Review]. Schottenhammer, Angela
  • 12 A true friend to China: The lost writings of a heroic nobody [Book Review]. Day, Colin
  • 13 The classical gardens of Shanghai [Book Review]. Ram, Jane
  • 14 It won't be long now: The diary of a Hong Kong prisoner of war [Book Review]. Banham, Tony
  • 15 Landscapes lost and found: Appreciating Hong Kong's heritage cultural landscapes [Book Review]. Wordie, Jason
  • 16 Images of the Canton factories 1760-1822: Reading history in art [Book Review]. Connor, Patrick
  • 17 Lee Fook Chee's Hong Kong - photographs from the 1950s [Book Review]. Ku, Agnes Shuk-Mei
  • 18 The practical prophet: Bishop Ronald O. Hall of Hong Kong and his legacies [Book Review]. Cunich, Peter
  • 19 Surgeon on the China seas: The journal of Charles Courtney, Surgeon RN, recounting experiences and observations of the second opium war, 1856-60 [Book Review]. Sinha, Ria
  • 20 The survivors: A period piece [Book Review]. Flaherty, St John
  • 21 When true love came to China [Book Review]. Witchard, Anne
  • 22 Gunboat justice: British and American law courts in China and Japan (1842-1943) [Book Review]. Munn, Christopher
  • 23 Empires of panic: Epidemics and colonial anxieties [Book Review]. Benedict, Carol A

Obituaries

  • 24 Keith Goodwin Stevens 1926-2015. Tiedemann, RG
  • 25 Deric Daniel (Dan) Waters 1920-2016. Broom, Michael
  • 26 James Julius Bertram 1944-2015
  • 27 Jonathan Martin Heath 1941-2016. Stuckey, Peter
  • 28 Ian Francis Cluny Macpherson 1929-2016
  • 29 Malcolm (Mark) Reeve Nunns 1922-2016

Reports for 2015-2016

  • 30 President's report
  • 31 Hon. activities co-ordinator's report for the year 2015
  • 32 Royal Asiatic society Hong Kong branch
  • 33 The Sir Lindsay and lady ride memorial fund

Notes for Contributors

  • 34

Notes for contributors

Vol. 57, 2017

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Articles

  • 1 The canton linguists in the 1730s managers of the margins of trade. van Dyke, Paul A
  • 2 Zindel's rosary hill - Hong Kong's forgotten war. England, Vaudine
  • 3 Steering neutral?: The un-interned Irish community in occupied Hong Kong. Edgar, Brian
  • 4 A short history of bungalow A St Stephen's college, Stanley. Banham, Tony
  • 5 The bombing of bungalow C: Friendly fire at the Stanley civilian internment camp. Bailey, Steven K
  • 6 Taikoo sugar refinery Workers; housing: Progressive design by a pioneering commercial enterprise. Lang, Jennifer
  • 7 The nemeses of lieutenant William pedder RN. Guy, Nicholas
  • 8 Luso-asians and the origins of Macau's cultural development. Xavier, Roy Eric

Notes and Queries

  • 9 Family cases from shek Pik, Lantau, new territories of Hong Kong. Hayes, James W

Book Reviews

  • 10 Eurasian reflections across two generations. Lee, Vicky
  • 11 Kindred spirits: A history of the Hong Kong club [Book Review]. Cunich, Peter
  • 12 Hong Kong in the cold war [Book Review]. Goodstadt, Leo F
  • 13 Wartime Macau: Under the Japanese shadow [Book Review]. Day, Colin
  • 14 Unruly people: Crime, community, and state in late imperial south china [Book Review]. Luk, Gary Chi-Hung
  • 15 Strong to save: Maritime mission in Hong Kong from whampoa reach to the Mariners' club [Book Review]. England, Vaudine
  • 16 Merchants of war and peace: British knowledge of china in the making of the opium war [Book Review]. Grace, Richard J
  • 17 Making impressions, A Portuguese family in Macau and Hong Kong 1700-1945 [Book Review]. Nunez, Cesar Guillen
  • 18 Enclave to urbanity: Canton, foreigners, and architecture from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries [Book Review]. Chu, Cecilia L
  • 19 Policing Hong Kong: An Irish history [Book Review]. Hodson, David
  • 20 Nemesis: The first iron warship and her world [Book Review]. Davies, Stephen
  • 21 Hong Kong architecture 1945-2015: From colonial to global [Book Review]. Cowell, Christopher
  • 22 Hong Kong on the brink: An American diplomat relives 1967's darkest days [Book Review]. Yep, Ray
  • 23 The Wolfe sisters of Foochow, china: Born to evangelise [Book Review]. Cunich, Peter A
  • 24 In the land of pagodas: A classic account of travel in Hong Kong, Macao, Shanghai, Hubei, Hunan and guizhou [Book Review]. Day, Colin

Obituaries

  • 25 Brian Leonard coak 1938-2016
  • 26 Edward Hewitt Nichols 1925-2016
  • 27 Norman Robert honey 1930-2016
  • 28 David lee ward 1942-2016

Reports for 2015-2016

  • 29 President's report. Broom, Michael B
  • 30 Hon.activities co-ordinator's report for the year 2016
  • 31 Royal Asiatic society Hong Kong branch
  • 32 Sir Lindsay and lady ride memorial fund

Vol. 58, 2018

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Articles

  • 1 Myths, messages and manoeuvres: Franklin Gimson in August 1945. Edgar, Brian
  • 2 Briefing failure in ready room 4: The question of culpability for U.S. navy air strikes on Macau, 16 January 1945. Bailey, Steven K
  • 3 Fatal island: Malaria in Hong Kong. Sinha, Ria
  • 4 Architectural styles and identities in Hong kong: The Chinese and western designs for St Teresa's church in Kowloon Tong, 1928-32. Coomans, Thomas; Ho, Puay-peng
  • 5 The story of my childhood home: A Hong Kong mid-levels residence c.1880-1953. Chan, Bruce A
  • 6 Hunters plate: A Qing dynasty, silver racing trophy from early colonial Hong Kong. Chao, Huang
  • 7 'Chinese spirit in modern strength': Liang Sicheng, Lin Huiyin, and early modernist architecture in China. Kalman, Harold
  • 8 Pershing's Chinese: The other Chinese labour corps. James, Gregory

Notes

  • 9 What is a Tong Lau?: I know, as i lived in one... Lai, Lawrence W C
  • 10 Confusion worse confounded: The house with the circular porch on the Praia Grande. Garrett, Richard J

Book Reviews

  • 11 City dwellings in Hong Kong: A photo book review essay [Book Review]. Ku, Agnes Shuk-Mei
  • 12 Architect of prosperity: Sir John Cowperthwaite and the making of Hong Kong by Neil Monnery [Book Review]. Goodstadt, Leo F
  • 13 Piecing together Sha Po: Archaeological investigations and landscape reconstruction [Book Review] Hase, Patrick
  • 14 Reduced to a symbolical scale: The evacuation of British women and children from Hong Kong to Australia in 1940 [Book Review]. England, Vaudine
  • 15 A death in Hong Kong: The MacLennan case of 1980 and the suppression of a scandal [Book Review]. Munn, Christopher
  • 16 A voyage to war: An Englishman's account of Hong Kong 1936-41 [Book Review]. Flaherty, St John
  • 17 The peak: An illustrated history of Hong Kong's top district. [Book Review]. Holdsworth, May
  • 18 A city mismanaged: Hong Kong's struggle for survival [Book Review]. Ching, Frank
  • 19 Forgotten heroes: San on county and its magistrates in the late Ming and early Qing [Book Review]. Watson, James L
  • 20 Health Policy and Disease in Colonial and Post-Colonial Hong Kong, 1841-2003. [Book Review]. Peckham, Robert
  • 21 BomBan: Royal Hong Kong police inspector [Book Review]. Hodson, David
  • 22 Intruder in Mao's Realm, an Englishman's eyewitness account of 1970s China [Book Review]. Merz, Martin
  • 23 Meeting place: Encounters across cultures in Hong Kong, 1841-1984 [Book Review]. Pearson, Veronica
  • 24 The private side of the Canton trade, 1700-1840: Beyond the companies [Book Review]. Grace, Richard J
  • 25 Global trade in the nineteenth century: The house of Houqua and the Canton system [Book Review]. Le Pichon, Alain
  • 26 Macao's college and church of St Joseph, Splendour of the Baroque in China [Book Review]. Coomans, Thomas

Obituaries

  • 27 Edward de Renzie Brown 1944-2017
  • 28 Chan Sui-Jeung 'SJ' 1933-2018
  • 29 Baron Emmanuel Guillaume 1925-2017
  • 30 Jean M. Ingles 1933-2017
  • 31 Ophelia Look-ping Cheung-Macpherson

Reports for 2017-2018

  • 32 President's report. Broom, Michael B
  • 33 Honorary activities co-ordinator's report for the year 2017-2018
  • 34 Royal Asiatic society Hong Kong branch
  • 35 The Sir Lindsay and Lady Ride memorial fund

The Hong Kong Anthropologist (1987-2000; 2007-2012)

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Volume 6, 2012
  • Alan van BEEK: The Hong Kong Highlanders: Ethnic Identity in an Expatriate Group
  • Emily CHAN Ho Yee: More than Meets the Eyes: Slotted Rings and Social Complexity in Bronze Age Hong Kong
  • Jaya Gopan, Temily; Li, Zhao; Zhuang, Shuting (2012). "Modern Traditional Village Life in Hong Kong: The Case of Lung Yeuk Tau Village" (PDF). The Hong Kong Anthropologist. 6. Hong Kong Anthropological Society. OCLC 29371328.
  • Natalie LO Ka Fung: Gender and Consumption in HK: Searching For Sweetness
  • 歐陽美珊: 歸僑自梳女的家庭地位與身份認同
  • 徐斯筠: 被社會邊緣化的群體—香港拾荒長者生存狀態研究
Volume 5, 2011
  • Andrew WU Liang: Sailing on a Neoliberal Sea: Multinational Seafarers on Container Ships
  • YU Hiu Yan: Imagination of the Self and the Other: Inter-ethnic Attitudes between Filipino Domestic Helpers and their Employers after the Manila Hostage Crisis
  • LIANG, Yaqian: Making Gold: Commodification and Consumption of the Medicinal Fungus Chongcao in Guangdong and Hong Kong
  • Cleomi LEUNG Wing Yi: New Comers of the Nightclub: Transformations and Negotiations amongst Hostesses in Hong Kong
  • 高朗賢: 締造完美的婚禮: 從婚慶行業看香港華人的婚禮
  • 溫凱婷: 香港師奶︰刻板印象和身份認同的研究
  • Christopher CHENG: Ancestral Images: A Hong Kong Collection
Volume 4, 2010
  • LEUNG Wing-Cheong: A Hospitality Exchange Network: Couch-Surfing in Hong Kong
  • YIM Kin-Kei: Civil Education in Hong Kong: National Identity of Hong Kong Chinese Students
  • HO Nga-Hon: Hong Kong’s Shadow Education: Private Tutoring in Hong Kong
  • SO Fun-Hang: Between Two Homes: The Lives and Identities of Pakistani Women in Hong Kong
  • Soisci PORCHETTA: From Dirty and Dark to Clean and Healthy: Female Fighters Re-negotiating Gender Boundaries in Hong Kong
Volume 3, 2009
  • Jimmy YUAN Tsz-Hsien: Negotiating Rebellion: Obscene Poems of Chinese University Orientation Camp
  • CHUN See-Ching: An Anthropological Study of International School Students in Hong Kong Universities
  • 香惠初 HEUNG Wai-Cho: 詠春拳在香港-看師徒制度的運作情況及功能 (Ving Tsun Martial Arts in Hong Kong: The Operation of Apprenticeship)
Volume 2, 2008
  • LUI Sze-ki: An Ethnographic Comparison of Wet Markets and Supermarkets in Hong Kong
  • TSE Hei-man: An Ethnography of Social Network in Cyberspace: The Facebook Phenomenon
  • LI Hang: A Public Understanding of Science: A Case Study of Bird Flu Crisis in Hong Kong
  • SO Fun-Hang: Living Alone – A Comparison between Hong Kong and Sweden
Volume 1, 2007
Issue Number 13 - 2000
  • Helen Cheng: Phai-mia
  • Noel Lo: Young People's National Consciousness: The Case of Cultural Exchange Activities Bewteen Hong Kong and Mainland China (in Chinese)
  • Cheng Sea Ling: Making Love and Money: Clubs Around U.S. Army Camps in South Korea
  • Chow Tsz Yan: Star-Spangled Journey: Hong Kong Movie-Induced Tourism
  • Linda Yeung: Consuming Designer Fashion in Hong Kong
Issue Number 12 - 1999
  • Caroline Pluss: Muslims in Hong Kong
  • Nancy Yu: Change Meanings of an Art Form: A Look at Kethoprak in Relation to Java's Change Social Enviornment in the 1990s
  • Viki Li: Toilets & Cleanliness as a Window to Hong Kong Culture
  • Joseph Bosco: An Anthropological View of the Hong Kong McDonald's Snoopy Craze
  • Sidney Mintz: Review Essay
  • Gordon Mathews: What is Anthropology?
Issue Number 11 - 1998
  • James Hayes: The Barbara Ward Memorial Lecture 1996: Hong Kong's Own Boat People, Vignettes from Life and History
  • Sidney C.H.Cheung: Understanding Hong Kong Tourism from an Anthropological Perspective
  • Gordon Mathews: Culture, State, and Market in the shaping of Hong Kong's Chinese Identity
  • Zhang Xiaojun: Visual Ethnography: the Historical Reconstruction of the "Revival" of Lineages (in Chinese)
  • Theodore C.Bestor: Tokyo's Pantry: Everyday Life at the Tsukiji Seafood Market
  • Maria Siumi Tam: Situationing Heung Gong Yahn: Dilemmas of Identity in Australia
Issue Number 10 - 1997
  • Robert Smith: Intermittent Field Research in a Japanese Community: 1951-1996
  • Juha Komppa: It Is Not Blood, It Is Red: An Anthropological Approach to Thai Boxing
  • Wan Man Po: Constructing Love Relationships with Idols
  • Eve F.Y.Wong, with Gordon Mathews: Foreign Eyes On Hong Kong People: The View From Chungking Mansions
  • Grace Chan: Language Usage Among Hong Kong Indonesian Chinese (in Chinese)
  • So Kwok Wai: The Anthropological Perspective: The Relationship Between Hong Kong Hakka Cultural Identity and the Construction of Hong Kong Culture (in Chinese)
Issue Number 9 - 1996
  • Sidney W. Mintz: Fish, Food Habits and Material Culture
  • Wang Jian-Min: Recent Developments in Anthropology in Mainland China (in Chinese)
  • Joseph Bosco: Pagers and Culture in Hong Kong
  • Choi Fung Sze, Lo Kam Yan, Kam Pui Sze & Ng Kwong Ngai: Cantonese Opera Singing in Temple Street (in Chinese)
  • James Hayes: Social History and Ethnography in Hong Kong
  • Sidney W. Mintz & Jocasta Wai Yee Lee: Eating Seafood: A Trial Survey of Hong Kong Preferences.
Issue Number 8 - 1995
  • David Y.H. Wu: Drowning Your Child with Love: Family Education in Six Chinese Communities
  • Wong Sai Yun: Sexual Division of Labour and Women's Status in Tung Chung (in Chinese)
  • Chan Wing Yee & Wong Siu Wah: The Image of Hong Kong: Looking Through Travel Photography
  • Lee Wai Yee & Tsui Cheuk Yin: The Monkey God: From Myth to Interpretation Through Practice (in Chinese)
Issue Number 7 - 1994
  • Jack Goody: Flowers of East and West
  • Zhang Xiaojun: Revival of Folk Beliefs and Restructure of Local Culture (in Chinese)
  • Chien Chiao: Development of Anthropology in China and Hong Kong: A Personal and Casual Review

15th Anniversary: A Photographic Celebration

  • Kazuo Yoshihara: Clan Associations in Hong Kong: Their Precursory Organisatons in China and Development in Contemporary Hong Kong
  • Lee Wai Yee & Leung Wai Kei: Taboos in Paper Offering Shops (in Chinese)
Issue Number 6 - 1993
  • Cheng Sea-Ling & Wong Man-Yiu: Naming and Nicknaming in Chinese Society: Gender, Person and the Group
  • Chan Wai-Chan, Mandy: Chinese Emigrant Construction Workers in Hong Kong
  • Yang Yeung, Diana: Rennie's Mill: A Hong Kong Myth
  • Kong Piu-Lai: Playing with Foreign Exchange: From Economic Activities to Social Networking
  • Chan Siu-Lin: Female Medical Students Views on Marriage
  • Fong Ngar-Vee: Lunar New Year Customs & Their Symbolic Meaning for H.K. Families
Issue Number 5 - 1992
  • Geoff Wade: An Eighteen Century Ethnographic Account of Guangdong
  • Fang Duan-Ang: Things Seen and Heard in Yue (in Chinese)
  • Hugh Baker: Obituary: Hugh Gibb
  • Diana Yeung: Temple Street Tourism
  • Leung Chor-On: Blessings Are Not For All
  • Pamela Rogers: Celebrations of the Sea People of Southern Thailand
Issue Number 4 - 1990
  • Murray Groves: Fishing at Manumanu: Some Reflections on the Nature of Ethnographic Enquiry
  • Maria Jaschok: On Establishing a Chinese National Museum of Women's History: A Proposal, A Vision; A Statement of Objectives, of Significance, and of Needs
  • Tam Siu-Mi: Rapid Social Change in China's Special Economic Zones: the Case of Shekou
  • Diana Martin: Popular Religion, Pregnancy and Childbirth in Hong Kong
  • Leung Chor-On: Why Do Farmers Worship the Patron Deity of Fishing People? Rethinking the Worship of Tian Hou in Hong Kong
Issue Number 3 - 1989
  • Douglas Miles: Capitalism and the Structure of Descent Units in China and Thailand: A Comparison of Youling (1938) and Pulangka (1968)
  • Jacques Lemoine: The Turtle Symbol in Yao Kwatang and Tousai Ordinations
  • Stephan Feuchtwang: Chance and Tradition: Social and Ethnical Formation in Popular Chinese Temple Rituals
  • Chiao Chien: Marriage and Individual Freedom: Observations in the Case of Pai Yao, Ao Yao and the Peasants of Eastern Huian County
  • Chiang Wei: The Women's Script: Introduction, Preliminary Catalogue and Analysis of Extant Documents
Issue Number 2 - 1988
  • Hugh Baker: Feuding in Far Places: Lineage Relations in the New Territories
  • Nichole Constable: Fieldwork in Hong Kong
  • Chen Chi-Nan: Domestic Architecture in Taiwan
  • William Meacham: A Summary of Recent Archaeology in Hong Kong
  • Fred Chiu: Industrial Anthropology ?
Issue Number 1 - 1987
  • William Newell: Domestic Ancestral Behaviour
  • Chien Chiao: A Note on the Yao Programme
  • Diana Martin: Ghost Marriage
  • Nina Jablonski: The Role of Anthropology in Forensic Investigations
  • David Faure: The Historical Uses of Ethnography