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Thanks to the tremendous efforts of a great number of people, the Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Studies Series continues to gain momentum. With this volume, the seventh in our series, we can present to the reading public a unique collection of pieces of individual research and writing. It was not long ago that the concept of Hong Kong Studies was looked down upon as being an empty shell, with little chance of ever being otherwise. Today, however, an increasing number of schools are including the history of our city and its wider surroundings in their curricula. Furthermore, the ‘Local Interest’ sections of Hong Kong's many bookstores attract ever more people, both serious students of history and those who prefer a more casual dip into the subject.
The Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs service was an enormous and vitally important arm of the Chinese government from the mid-nineteenth to the early twentieth centuries. Despite Hong Kong's status as a British colony, the Chinese Customs maintained a station in Kowloon, headed by British expatriate staff. Although much is known about the service itself and the people who ran it, very little has been written about the everyday life of the many hundreds of officers who made the system work, scattered about the country often in very remote postings. In this account of the life and times of Charles Brewitt-Taylor, Cyril Cannon provides much that will be of interest to all types of reader. Historians who know about the structure of the service will be keen to read about the personal side of the life of one of its officers. And in these days when any one of us can travel freely to virtually any part of the People's Republic, those with a yen for adventure will be equally interested in the accounts of just how difficult it was to go into the interior, simply to take up one's allotted duties. The research has taken many years, and overcome many apparently blind alleys, but the result is an eminently readable account of one man and what he achieved.
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