Mark Hampton is Associate Professor of History and Director of the Centre for Cinema Studies at Lingnan University

• Introduction1. Hong Kong and British culture: postwar contexts2. The discourse of unbridled capitalism in post-war Hong Kong3. A man’s playground4. The discourses of order and modernisation5. Good governance6. Chinese Britishness7. Narratives of 1997Epilogue: Colonial hangoversBibliographyIndex

'A richly detailed study of Britain's cultural engagement with one of its most successful if under-studied colonies, Hampton does a wonderful job of showing us how Britain imagined Hong Kong and its people, how Britons actually lived in the colony and how locals regarded the British presence in an era of decolonisation. Hampton plumbs a wide array of materials to furnish us with this invigorating and original, as well as immensely readable, study.'Philippa Levine, the University of Texas‘…a well-written and original study that deserves to be widely read.’Tanja Bueltmann, Northumbria University, The American Historical Review, Vol 122, Issue 1

Mark Hampton is Associate Professor of History and Director of the Centre for Cinema Studies at Lingnan University

• Introduction1. Hong Kong and British culture: postwar contexts2. The discourse of unbridled capitalism in post-war Hong Kong3. A man’s playground4. The discourses of order and modernisation5. Good governance6. Chinese Britishness7. Narratives of 1997Epilogue: Colonial hangoversBibliographyIndex

'A richly detailed study of Britain's cultural engagement with one of its most successful if under-studied colonies, Hampton does a wonderful job of showing us how Britain imagined Hong Kong and its people, how Britons actually lived in the colony and how locals regarded the British presence in an era of decolonisation. Hampton plumbs a wide array of materials to furnish us with this invigorating and original, as well as immensely readable, study.'Philippa Levine, the University of Texas‘…a well-written and original study that deserves to be widely read.’Tanja Bueltmann, Northumbria University, The American Historical Review, Vol 122, Issue 1

Mark Hampton is Associate Professor of History and Director of the Centre for Cinema Studies at Lingnan University

• Introduction1. Hong Kong and British culture: postwar contexts2. The discourse of unbridled capitalism in post-war Hong Kong3. A man’s playground4. The discourses of order and modernisation5. Good governance6. Chinese Britishness7. Narratives of 1997Epilogue: Colonial hangoversBibliographyIndex

'A richly detailed study of Britain's cultural engagement with one of its most successful if under-studied colonies, Hampton does a wonderful job of showing us how Britain imagined Hong Kong and its people, how Britons actually lived in the colony and how locals regarded the British presence in an era of decolonisation. Hampton plumbs a wide array of materials to furnish us with this invigorating and original, as well as immensely readable, study.'Philippa Levine, the University of Texas‘…a well-written and original study that deserves to be widely read.’Tanja Bueltmann, Northumbria University, The American Historical Review, Vol 122, Issue 1