Preface
Published in Cambridge University Press eBooks • Apr 28, 2016
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Authors:
Robert Peckham
Abstract
There is, perhaps, no better place to begin a history of the global than with the hyper-local: the view over Victoria Harbour towards Tai Mo Shan, Hong Kong's highest summit, from my office at the University of Hong Kong. Across the water to the north, Stonecutters Island juts out of the Kowloon pen...