Hong Kong Beat

Author : Simon Roberts
Publisher : Blacksmith Books
ISBN 13 : 9789887792819
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hong Kong Beat written by Simon Roberts and published by Blacksmith Books. This book was released on 2019-12-07 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sex, drugs, gambling, ghosts, drinking, rugby - and even some police work. Hong Kong on the edge of empire was teeming with triads, smugglers, Chinese immigrants and Vietnamese refugees. Simon's memoir of his time in the Hong Kong police - from the 1970s until after the handover - is a fast-paced tale. From the murky back streets of Kowloon to the open seas, his shocking and hilarious story shows what life was like on the Hong Kong beat.

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ISBN 13 : 9789887963882
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stories from the Royal Hong Kong Police written by and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-07 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fighting to survive on a patrol launch during a typhoon. Investigating a murder by a Vietnamese gangster in a refugee camp. Battling riots during the Cultural Revolution, countering drug smuggling by the triads, and dealing with bank robbers. These are some of the stories told in this compilation of experiences from 50 former Royal Hong Kong Police officers.

Author : Chris Emmett
Publisher : Earnshaw Books Limited
ISBN 13 : 9789888769322
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hong Kong Policeman written by Chris Emmett and published by Earnshaw Books Limited. This book was released on 2022-02-16 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hong Kong in 1970 was the fastest expanding city in the world, a city that lived on three levels - the expatriates, nearly always British who lived in almost complete isolation; the vast mass of Chinese residents struggling to get by and improve their lot; and finally the criminal and corrupt underside which not only fought among itself but also affected the life of everyone else in the Crown Colony through fear and corruption. Fighting to hold this in check - and by and large succeeding - were the Hong Kong police force. At the officer level, many were British. Into this heady and dangerous mix steps a young Merseyside policeman, Chris Emmett. His account of those times brings vividly to life the crime, prostitution, drugs, triad street gangs and corruption that was an important part of the fabric of Hong Kong of those days.

Author : Annie Hau-Nung Chan
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349952818
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women in the Hong Kong Police Force written by Annie Hau-Nung Chan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-11-29 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the development of women in the Hong Kong Police Force (HKP) over the past 68 years, beginning from the early colonial years when calls to include women in law enforcement first emerged, to the recruitment of the first female sub-inspector in 1949, and through to the current situation where policewomen constitute 15% of the total HKP establishment. What accounts for these developments and what do they tell us about organisational culture, gender and colonial policing? This interdisciplinary work is relevant to fields including women’s studies, gender studies, policing studies, criminology, colonial history, sociology, and organisational studies, and will appeal to academics, students and lay readers interested in the development of women in policing.

Author : Jan Morris
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307781062
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hong Kong written by Jan Morris and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-03-02 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In its last days under British rule, the Crown Colony of Hong Kong is the world's most exciting city, at once fascinating and exasperating, a tangle of contradictions. It is a dazzling amalgam of conspicuous consumption and primitive poverty, the most architecturally incongruous yet undeniably beautiful urban panorama of all. World-renowned travel writer Jan Morris offers the most insightful and comprehensive study of the enigma of Hong Kong thus far.

Author : Mark Hampton
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1784996300
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hong Kong and British culture, 1945–97 written by Mark Hampton and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2015-11-01 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the British cultural engagement with Hong Kong in the second half of the twentieth century. It shows how the territory fit unusually within Britain’s decolonisation narratives and served as an occasional foil for examining Britain’s own culture during a period of perceived stagnation and decline. Drawing on a wide range of archival and published primary sources, Hong Kong and British culture, 1945–97 investigates such themes as Hong Kong as a site of unrestrained capitalism, modernisation, and good government, as well as an arena of male social and sexual opportunity. It also examines the ways in which Hong Kong Chinese embraced British culture, and the competing predictions that British observers made concerning the colony’s return to Chinese sovereignty. An epilogue considers the enduring legacy of British colonialism. This book will be essential reading for historians of Hong Kong, British decolonisation, and Britain’s culture of declinism.

Author : Dean Barrett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hangman's Point written by Dean Barrett and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: British and Chinese cultures collide in a deadly serious but often hilarious novel about an American ex-seaman and tavern owner, living in Hong Kong in 1857, who is framed for murder by a beautiful Englishwoman.

Author : Leonard Davis
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349217018
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hong Kong and the Asylum-Seekers from Vietnam written by Leonard Davis and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-27 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leonard Davis gives the background to the 15-year-long saga of Hong Kong and the asylum seekers from Vietnam. In the run-up to 1997 there has been increasing tension associated with the presence of 50,000 Vietnamese men, women and children in Hong Kong. The principal themes of the book cover screening and repatriation, the violence in the detention centres, the plight of children and the urgent need for the international community to be more generous to the refugees.

Author : Kam C. Wong
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317079035
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Policing in Hong Kong written by Kam C. Wong and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is one of the first to document the challenges and opportunities facing the Hong Kong police force following the reversion of political authority from the UK to China in 1997. Thematically organized and oriented towards those issues of greatest concern to the public, such as police accountability, assaults on police, police deployment, surveillance powers, and policing across borders, it provides a detailed discussion of these and other contemporary issues. The opening chapter sets the work within historical context while the final chapter provides a comparison of policing in Hong Kong with public security in the PRC. The book will be of value to students and researchers working in the area of comparative policing, and comparative criminal justice, as well as police professionals, and policy-makers.

Author : Frank Welsh
Publisher : Kodansha
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 668 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Borrowed Place written by Frank Welsh and published by Kodansha. This book was released on 1993 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About the history of Hong Kong from ancient times until 1993.