Hong Kong epilogue to an empire

Jan Morris

Published by Penguin , softcover , illustrated

Jan Morris's acclaimed portrait of the British Empire's last, most anachronistic outpost has been newly revised for this edition and includes further thoughts on the future polities and policies of this uncertain colony.

't is difficult to think of anyone who could recount this tale with such authority, elegance and sensitivity as Jan Morris. That she has a feel for the institutions and "muddled grandeur" of high empire was plain from the Pax Britannica trilogy. Here, she portrays what has always been Britain's most adjective-defying colony ... Morris so clearly likes the place but she is not sentimental, nor is she blind to Hong Kong's flaws; she is aware of rootlessness in the teeming energy' - Graham Hutchings in The Times Literary Supplement