Anglo-China: Chinese People and British Rule in Hong Kong, 1841–1880. By Christopher Munn. [Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press, 2001. xv+460 pp. £55.00. ISBN 0-7007-1298-4.]

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Christopher Munn has written a scholarly book of 460 pages, with detailed endnotes that will be of considerable value to researchers in Hong Kong studies. The long endnotes and bibliography reveal the author as a man of great drive, energy, tenacity and intellectual commitment. Extraordinarily well-researched, the book contains great wealth of information on Hong Kong during the first four decades of British rule from the 1840s to the 1870s.