LEE PUI-TAK is a research officer and honorary lecturer at the Centre of Asian Studies, the University of Hong Kong.

"This collection of essays will make a worthy contribution to the better, two-way knowledge and understanding of 'Hong Kong and China' over the past 160 years. By looking out onto China and by looking back from there into Hong Kong, as well as by casting more light on the changing, ever evolving, situation within Hong Kong itself within the period of colonial rule, good scholarly work of this kind must surely be of benefit to the ongoing connection and interaction, the more so in a 'one country two systems' relationship." - James Hayes"