General Robert Ho Shai Lai and Hesta Hung

“I had a typical Chinese-style relationship with my father: serious conversations, seldom in a relaxed mood. We would talk about business or how to be a proper human being. Or he would tell stories about the old times.”

- Robert H. N. Ho

Sources

BOOKS

  • John M. Carroll, Edge of Empires: Chinese Elites and British Colonials in Hong Kong, (2005)

  • Irene Cheng, Clara Ho Tung, A Hong Kong Lady: Her Family and Her Times (1976) and Intercultural Reminiscences (1997)

  • Jean Gittins, Behind Barbed Wire (1982)

  • Eric Ho, Tracing My Children’s Lineage (2010)

  • May Holdsworth and Christopher Munn (eds), Dictionary of Hong Kong Biography (2013)

  • Chan Lau Kit Ching, China, Britain and Hong Kong 1895-1945 (1990)

  • Vicky Lee, Being Eurasian: Memories Across Racial Divides (2004)

  • Christopher Munn, Anglo-China: Chinese People and British Rule 1841-1880 (2001)

  • Carl T Smith, “Protected Women in 19th Century Hong Kong” in M Jaschok and S Miers (eds), Women and Chinese Patriarchy: Submission, Servitude, and Escape (1994)

  • Victor Zheng and Wong Siu Lun, Ho Tung: The Grand Old Man of Hong Kong, (2007) and Ho Shai Lai (2008)

 

NEWSPAPERS

  • South China Morning Post, numerous dates

  • * O Chau, “House of Ho”, Post Magazine, South China Morning Post, 27 May 2012

 

ONLINE

 

VIDEOS

 

INTERVIEWS

  • Mr Robert H. N. Ho, October 2015