The history man: The last governor of Hong Kong

Public Culture

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 355-375

  Tumbling, Jeremy ^a  

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EID: 0031488455     PISSN: 08992363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1215/08992363-9-3-355     Document Type: Review

References (14)

1. See my Dickens, Violence and the Modern State (London: Macmillan, 1995), pp. 225-26.
2. See Frank Welsh, A History of Hong Kong (London: HarperCollins, 1993), p. 472. I am grateful to the History Department Workshop at the University of Hong Kong for the loan of materials for this article, including press cuttings from the South China Morning Post and the extraordinary book by Russell Spurr, with its embossed cover and picture of a helmet with an ostrich feather on it - part of the governor's regalia which Patten wisely discarded - Excellency: The Governors of Hong Kong (Hong Kong: FormAsia, 1995). See also G. B. Endacott, A History of Hong Kong (Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 1964, 2nd ed.), and Jung-Fang Ysai, Hong Kong in Chinese History: Community and Social Unrest in the British Colony 1842-1913 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1993).
3. See Frank Welsh, A History of Hong Kong (London: HarperCollins, 1993), p. 472. I am grateful to the History Department Workshop at the University of Hong Kong for the loan of materials for this article, including press cuttings from the South China Morning Post and the extraordinary book by Russell Spurr, with its embossed cover and picture of a helmet with an ostrich feather on it - part of the governor's regalia which Patten wisely discarded - Excellency: The Governors of Hong Kong (Hong Kong: FormAsia, 1995). See also G. B. Endacott, A History of Hong Kong (Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 1964, 2nd ed.), and Jung-Fang Ysai, Hong Kong in Chinese History: Community and Social Unrest in the British Colony 1842-1913 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1993).
4. See Frank Welsh, A History of Hong Kong (London: HarperCollins, 1993), p. 472. I am grateful to the History Department Workshop at the University of Hong Kong for the loan of materials for this article, including press cuttings from the South China Morning Post and the extraordinary book by Russell Spurr, with its embossed cover and picture of a helmet with an ostrich feather on it - part of the governor's regalia which Patten wisely discarded - Excellency: The Governors of Hong Kong (Hong Kong: FormAsia, 1995). See also G. B. Endacott, A History of Hong Kong (Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 1964, 2nd ed.), and Jung-Fang Ysai, Hong Kong in Chinese History: Community and Social Unrest in the British Colony 1842-1913 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1993).
5. See Frank Welsh, A History of Hong Kong (London: HarperCollins, 1993), p. 472. I am grateful to the History Department Workshop at the University of Hong Kong for the loan of materials for this article, including press cuttings from the South China Morning Post and the extraordinary book by Russell Spurr, with its embossed cover and picture of a helmet with an ostrich feather on it - part of the governor's regalia which Patten wisely discarded - Excellency: The Governors of Hong Kong (Hong Kong: FormAsia, 1995). See also G. B. Endacott, A History of Hong Kong (Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 1964, 2nd ed.), and Jung-Fang Ysai, Hong Kong in Chinese History: Community and Social Unrest in the British Colony 1842-1913 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1993).
6. On these acts, see Robert Miles and Annie Phizacklea, White Man's Country: Racism in British Politics (London: Pluto Press, 1984), pp. 69, 109.
7. See Edward Said, Culture and Imperialism (London: Chatto and Windus, 1992) p. 61.
8. The memorial to Hill in Donald Pennington and Keith Thomas (eds.) Puritans and Revolutionaries (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1978), pp. 1-21 gives a good sense of Oxford.
9. See Jacques Derrida, Positions, trans. Alan Bass (London: Athlone Press, 1981), pp. 56-59.
10. See Jan Morris, Hong Kong: End of an Empire (Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1990), p. 305.
11. The classic text on race in Britain remains Paul Gilroy, There Ain't No Black in the Union Jack: The Cultural Politics of Race and Nation (London: Hutchinson, 1987).
12. See Raymond Williams, Politics and Letters (London: New Left Books, 1979), p. 258.
13. Henry James, The Spoils of Poynton, New York edition (New York: Charles Scribner's, 1908), X.24.
14. Walter Benjamin, Illuminations, trans. Harry Zohn (London: Jonathan Cape, 1970), p. 258.