Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Series General Editors' Foreword vii
4. Acknowledgements ix
5. Introduction 1
6. Chapter One: Early settlement 15
7. Chapter Two: The Chinese community in early Hong Kong 57
8. Chapter Three: A city of entrepreneurs 117
9. Chapter Four: The people's livelihood in the 1920s and 1930s 149
10. Chapter Five: The Second World War and the Japanese occupation 209
11. Chapter Six: The return to immigrant society, 1945-1966 233
12. Chapter Seven: Crisis and consolidation, 1966 -1981 285
13. Chapter Eight: Affluence and beyond 351
14. Index 383