Book Description

The newspaper excerpts, in chronological order, are faithful to the original text. Focusing mainly on Hong Kong, the excerpts also touch on Macao, mainland China, and other parts of the world. They are selected for their contrasting content: instructive and entertaining, serious and amusing, important and trivial, but always interesting. They reflect the changes over the years in language, style of writing, even in humor. Of special interest are the public responses to the many inventions, which today we take for granted, such as electric lighting, the motor car, or the first attempts at flying. Most importantly, they reveal the gradual changes in Hong Kongís colonial attitudes as these slowly adjust to new values and social and political changes.