Meiji Graves in Happy Valley

Meiji Graves in Happy ValleyThe Hong Kong Cemetery in Happy Valley is home to over 470 graves connected to the citys Japanese population. Most of these graves belong to individuals who died during the Meiji era (18681912), a remarkable period of modernisation and opening up of Japan that saw thousands of its inhabitants travel to other parts of the world to study, work, and settle. Who were these people? What were they doing in Hong Kong? And why were unbaptised Japanese buried

who can examine the visual evidence of architecture now destroyed or altered in order to better understand various aspects of these significant buildings

as well as in the administrative style of school principals

This selflessness is the true meaning of goodness

‘Reinventing Marie Corelli for the Twenty-First Century’ is a collection of essays about a novelist who once was the ‘second most famous Englishwoman in the world’ after Queen Victoria and whose books broke every previous sales record

Colonel Francisco Caamano Deno

these essays represent a gamut of institutions and women who draw upon both personal experience and scholarly expertise

offering analyses of over 50 rarely seen immigrant films that would otherwise remain invisible and unarchived

and navigating daunting encounters with cannibals

and schools

Appearing here for the first time in English

Essential reading for social workers and lawyers alike who serve low-income people entangled in systems that so often fail them

the status of astrology and magic