Hong Kong

Jan Morris, who was born in 1926, is Anglo-Welsh and lives in Wales. Her books include the
Pax Britannica Trilogy
about the British Empire,
Venice, Oxford, Spain, The Matter of Wales, Manhattan ’45, Sydney
, the autobiographical
Conundrum
and
Pleasures of a Tangled Life
, and the fictional
Last Letters from Hav
, which was nominated for the Booker Prize. Her travel essays have been published in six collected volumes, and she edited
The Oxford Book of Oxford
.

VINTAGE DEPARTURES EDITION, FEBRUARY 1997

Copyright © 1985, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1997 by Jan Morris

All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. Originally published in slightly different form in Great Britain by the Penguin Group and in the United States by Random House, Inc., New York, in 1985.

Portions of this work have appeared in
The New York Times, Travel and Leisure
, and
Vogue
.

Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following for permission to reprint previously published material: Methuen London, Ltd.: Excerpt from “Mad Dogs and Englishmen” from
The Noel Coward Songbook
by Noel Coward. Reprinted by permission of Methuen London, Ltd.
Random House, Inc.: Excerpt from the poem “Hong Kong” by W. H. Auden from W. H. Auden,
Collected Poems
, edited by Edward Mendelson. Copyright 1945 by W. H. Auden, reprinted by permission of Random House, Inc., and Faber and Faber Ltd.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Morris, Jan, 1926–
Hong Kong / Jan Morris.
p. cm.
eISBN: 978-0-307-78106-2
1. Hong Kong—History. 2. Hong Kong—Description and travel.
3. Morris, Jan, 1926–    — Journeys—Hong Kong. I. Title.
DS796.H757M67 1989
915.12504′5—dc20
89-40116

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v3.1

FOR
RUBEN PROVSTGÅRD MORYS
BORN
1986

CONTENTS

1 PROLOGUE

2 CHRONOLOGY

     THANKS

CHINESE NAMES ARE GENERALLY IN THE
PINYIN ROMANIZATION, BUT NOT ALWAYS