More Than 1001 Days and Nights of Hong Kong Internment is the wartime journal of Sir Chaloner Grenville Alabaster, former attorney-general of Hong Kong and one of the three highest-ranking British officials during the Japanese occupation. He was imprisoned by the Japanese at the Stanley Internment Camp from 1941 to 1945. During his internment, he managed to keep a diary of his life in the camp in small notebooks and hid them until his release in 1945. He then wrote his wartime journal on the basis of these notes. The journal records his day-to-day experiences of the fall of Hong Kong, his time at Stanley, and his eventual release. Some of the most fascinating extracts cover the three months immediately after the fall of Hong Kong and when Alabaster and his colleagues were imprisoned in Prince’s Building in Central and before they were sent to the camp, a period little covered in previous publications. Hence, the book is an important primary source for understanding the daily operation of the Stanley Internment Camp and the camp’s environment. Readers will also learn more about the daily life of those imprisoned in the camp, and C. G. Alabaster’s interaction with other prisoners there.

Illness and Immortality examines a medieval Sanskrit text, the Netra Tantra, which is devoted to health and healing through a yogic practice dedicated to the chanting of mantras, the building of mandalas, and meditation. Patricia Sauthoff examines the role of such ritual elements in rites to alleviate illness and death. She includes analysis of the various forms of the deity Amrtesa or Mrtyuñjaya (Conqueror of Death), the nature of mantra, and the relationship between the tantric practitioner and the patient. This work explores what is meant by immortality within the medieval context and how one goes about attaining it. It asks how ritual alleviates illness, what role the deity plays in health and healing, and finally who has access to the rites described within the text. Central to this study is the conception of a body vulnerable to demons and reliant on deities for continued existence, and how the three yogic bodies (sthula, suksma, and para) play a role in physical and spiritual well-being. Featuring new translations of large sections of the Netra Tantra, the book offers readers various points of entry into the text so that tantric practitioners and scholars alike can access the influential and important concepts and practices found within this long-revered but under-studied work.

Hong Kong has been caught between empires ever since the First Opium War (1839-1842). As a result, the study of Hong Kong history has been subjected to the influence of the empires that controlled or laid claims over it. The historical experience of the Hongkongers during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries is unique, with Hong Kong as a multi-ethnic and multi-cultural society, an international trading hub, and a geopolitically crucial British colony until 1997. In recent decades, historians produced works on different aspects of the Hong Kong history, but one particular group has remained obscure: the more than 30,000 Hong Kong men and women who served in the British armed forces from the Opium Wars to the end of the British rule.

This is the first systematic study of the experience of the Hong Kong servicemen in the British armed forces during the colonial period. It puts the Hong Kong servicemen in the contexts of Hong Kong history, the history of overseas Chinese, the history of the British Empire, and the military history of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It details the agency of Hongkongers, who were often portrayed as victims or beneficiaries during the two world wars and the Cold War, and highlights the relevance of Hong Kong in the modern history of East Asia. The author also looks at how the intertwined issues of class and race played out among these servicemen, who came from a variety of ethnic, cultural, and social backgrounds. The study reveals the complexity of the colonial Hong Kong society by illustrating the interplay between the colonizers and the colonized of different classes and ethnicities, and informs the ongoing discussion about colonial Hong Kong by providing concrete examples of the collaboration between ethnic groups.

This book aims at providing an accessible introduction to and summary of the major themes of Hong Kong history that has been studied in the past decades. Each chapter also suggests a number of key historical figures and works that are essential for the understanding of a particular theme. However, the book is by no means merely a general survey of the recent studies of Hong Kong history; it tries to suggest that the best way to approach Hong Kong history is to put it firmly in its international context.

本書之出版，既為2021年歷史系成立四十三周年誌慶，同時亦為祝賀歷史系校友會於今秋正式成立。歷史系桃李逾三千六百人（包括在史地系年代主修歷史的校友），昔日在獅子山前辛勤讀史的學子，畢業後一直在社會上默默耕耘，努力追求突破。許多校友的成就是有目共睹的，他們無論在中外學術界、文化產業界、教育界或工商百業也大放異彩，其中不少更是業內領軍人物、傑出代表，或後起之秀。本書結集四十三名校友之訪談紀錄，以賀歷史系四十三歲生辰。書中涵蓋的校友畢業於六十至一零年代，他們在受訪過程中暢談畢業後的道路及人生經驗，也回憶昔日求學時期難忘的點滴，當中有飽經歷練的分享，有閃耀智慧的啟發，更有不少洋溢關愛、觸動人心的剖白，值得讀者細細玩味。

大化革新是日本史上大事，與近代的明治維新互相輝映。本書記述日本古代、中世、近世的政治與社會，探討律令制度、武家政權和幕藩體制，以及大化革新後的文化進程，重點介紹了文史名著、醫藥學術和浮世繪等。讀者藉著本書可以認識日本近代以前的歷史，還有助於考察日本文化的深層結構。

本書以文化互動及社會變遷為主要線索，闡述古代香港的發展。作者先分遠古、秦漢、魏晉南北朝、隋唐五代、宋元、明清六個時段簡述香港數千年來一脈相承的歷史進程；再以香港歷代行政沿革、居民和社會經濟、近代以前的宗教和教育等不同專題探討歷史上的香港社會，指出有數千年悠久傳統的中國文化，是香港成長的根源和基礎，而且從未中斷。