Summary: Selected, edited cases from the Hong Kong court of Magistrate Frederick Stewart (1836-1889) as reported in "The China Mail", July 1881-March 1882, grouped, with historical introductions: a) according to those charged: sailors, soldiers, police, teachers, priests, prostitutes, kidnappers & traffickers in human beings, children, students, gamblers, informers, pirates; and also b) grouped according to location: urban life, country life and life at sea. Modern professionals, with significant experience of Hong Kong, comment from their related professional experience in the 20th Century, drawing comparisons and contrasts from this 19th Century data. They are: a barrister-at-law; a magistrate; a retired Assistant Commissioner of Police; an Assiociate Professor of Journalism, who is also a practising journalist; a cross-cultural specialist, who is also a former colonial administrator; a Hong Kong historian, who is also the biographer of the Magistrate whose court is explored. With background essays on early Hong Kong law, including the "Light and Pass" Rules. The printed book can be ordered from the website of The Chinese University Press of Hong Kong: <"http://www.chineseupress.com/asp/e_Book_card.asp?BookID=1898&Lang=E"> |
