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
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
“Architectural Appraisal of Ho Tung Gardens”, by Ho Yin Lee, Lynne D. DiStefano and Curry C.K. Tse, Antiquities and Monuments Office, HKSAR Government, http://www.amo.gov.hk/ form/briefing/ htgaa_report.pdf, accessed 02/03/16
Robert Hotung, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Hotung, accessed 24/7/15
Taiwan Documents Project, http://www.taiwandocuments.org/, 03/05/16
Taiwan Today, archive, numerous dates, http://www.taiwantoday.tw/mp.asp?mp=9, 30/04/16
VIDEOS
Dedication to Ho Shai Lai, George H. W. Bush Gallery, National Museum of the Pacific War, Texas, 2009, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sANocvLVpHA
INTERVIEWS
Mr Robert H. N. Ho, October 2015