More than 1001 days and nights of Hong Kong internment : a personal narrative   

• Product Details

  Product #

  2589388B

  Author(s)

  Alabaster, Chaloner Grenville

  City

  Hong Kong 

  Country

  China 

  Language

  English 

  ISBN

  9789888754120 

  Date of Publication

  2022 

  Publisher

  Hong Kong University Press  

  Cover Type

  Hard cover 

  Pages

  310 

  Series

  Royal Asiatic society Hong Kong studies series 

  Subject

  History, 20th-21st Centuries

  Subject

  Literature

   

• Product Details in Original Language

  Author

  Alabaster, Chaloner Grenville

  Publisher

  Hong Kong University Press  

• Description

  More Than 1001 Days and Nights of Hong Kong Internment is the wartime journal of Sir Chaloner Grenville Alabaster, former attorney-general of Hong Kong and one of the three highest-ranking British officials during the Japanese occupation. He was imprisoned by the Japanese at the Stanley Internment Camp from 1941 to 1945. During his internment, he managed to keep a diary of his life in the camp in small notebooks and hid them until his release in 1945. He then wrote his wartime journal on the basis of these notes. The journal records his day-to-day experiences of the fall of Hong Kong, his time at Stanley, and his eventual release. Some of the most fascinating extracts cover the three months immediately after the fall of Hong Kong and when Alabaster and his colleagues were imprisoned in Prince’s Building in Central and before they were sent to the camp, a period little covered in previous publications. Hence, the book is an important primary source for understanding the daily operation of the Stanley Internment Camp and the camp’s environment. Readers will also learn more about the daily life of those imprisoned in the camp, and C. G. Alabaster’s interaction with other prisoners there.