Another Disaster
Subtitle: Hong Kong Sketches
Publisher: Radcliffe Press
Published: April 18, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9781845111120
Subjects: History; Judicial Bodies; Colonies And Colonization; Biography & Autobiography; History - General History; Biography/Autobiography; Personal Memoirs; Asia - General; History / Asia; Government - Judicial Branch; Political Process - Leadership; 20th century; China; Colonies; Great Britain; Hong Kong; Hong Kong (China); Roberts, Denys; Social life and customs
First sentence: By the beginning of 1962 I was starting to enjoy life in Gibraltar.
Description: "Hong Kong was one of the last outposts of Empire, remaining a Crown Colony until handover to the Chinese in 1997. In this engaging and amusing memoir, Denys Roberts chronicles his time there from his arrival in 1962 as Solicitor General to his rise to the office of Chief Justice, which he remained until his retirement in 1988. He paints a picture of the unique social life in Hong Kong - a merger between British officials and local business and commercial communities and gives a very sharp and detailed picture of the nature and structure of classic Crown Colony government and administration. "Another Disaster" is an entertaining account of life in one of the last chapters of imperial history."--Bloomsbury Publishing.