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Stanley: Behind Barbed Wire
Jean Gittins
US $8.00
US $10.00
1982/12
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9789882202825
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香港大學出版社
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This is a story of one courageous woman’s fight against the vicissitudes, brutality and starvation that faced civilians incarcerated in the infamous Stanley prison, by the Japanese, in Hong Kong during World War II.
The story she tells is absolutely fascinating providing, as it does, an essential fragment of Hong Kong's social history. Written simply, without any obnoxious purple passages or journalese, this is a true story of survival, absorbing in its simplicity and details of the very essence of staying alive – growing vegetables in such stark conditions – and sane.
A book that will appeal to a wide spectrum of readers.
About the author(s)
View moreJean Gittins
Jean Gittins was born in Hong Kong to Sir Robert and Lady Clara Ho Tung, who brought up their family to appreciate equally their Chinese and European heritage. Secretary to the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Hong Kong at the time, Jean was incarcerated, with others of the University staff, in Stanley Prison Camp shortly after the Japanese invasion of Hong Kong in 1941. After the war she settled in Australia with her son and daughter, and was for many years Secretary to the Department of Pathology at the University of Melbourne. Jean has always maintained an interest in and been an active member of International P.E.N. She has written numerous articles and is the author of Eastern Windows-Western Skies and the recently published The Diggers from China, the story of Chinese on the Goldfields.
About the publisher
View more香港大學出版社成立於1956年，隸屬於亞洲最具影響力的英語學府——香港大學。出版社每年出版逾三十種新書，且中文書的比例持續增加，現已超過四分之一。憑藉香港獨特的國際地位，香港大學出版社的書籍深入探討、審視並彰顯亞洲在世界中的角色。我們在中國歷史與文化、法律、公共衛生、社會工作、電影與媒體研究、藝術，以及建築與城市規劃等領域的出版物尤為享有盛譽。
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