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Meet the Author Night: Dr James Hayes

31 Oct 2007

 

The University of Hong Kong (HKU) Libraries Reading Club is proud to present a talk by Dr James Hayes on November 7, 2007. He will talk about his book "The Great Difference: Hong Kong's New Territories and Its People 1898-2004".

Dr Hayes is a scholar of the Hong Kong region and its people. In his thirty-two years of government service, he has served in the New Territories almost half the time, and was Regional Secretary New Territories, heading the District Administration in 1985-87.

The book will be available for sale at a discounted price of HK$230 that evening.

Details of "Meet the Author Night" are as follows:-

Speaker:  Dr James Hayes
Moderator:   Dr John Carroll
Language:  English
Date:  November 7, 2007 (Wednesday)
Time:  7:15 pm - 9:00 pm
Venue:   Special Collections, 1/F, Main Library, HKU
Free Admission. Please register at:- 
http://lib.hku.hk/friends/reading_club/bt2007_10.html

About the Book

"The Great Difference: Hong Kong's New Territories and Its People 1898-2004"
James Stewart Lockhart called it "the great difference." Returned from an inspection tour of the newly leased extension to Hong Kong territory in August 1898, Lockhart, a senior Hong Kong colonial official, had used this phrase to describe the gulf between the New Territories and its people and the existing British colony of Hong Kong and its inhabitants. In this volume, James Hayes argues that this "the great difference" has led the government to administer the New Territories and its people differently from the old urban area from the outset, resulting in repercussions that affect present-day Hong Kong.