Forgotten Souls: A Social History of the Hong Kong Cemetery

by Patricia Lim

This book follows on from the mapping and recording of the about 10,000 graves that make up the Hong Kong Cemetery for a database which will be held in the archives of the Hong Kong Memory Project and the Royal Asiatic Society among other places. The silent tombs and elegantly carved inscriptions dating from 1842 up to the present day aroused curiosity in the author about who these long-buried people were and how they lived their lives. Lim has teased...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9622099904
• ISBN13: 9789622099906
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
• Length: 624 Pages
• Weight: 2.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.2" x 9.1"