Sir Robert Ho Tung

“I really admire my grandfather for rising from picking up scrap metal in the streets to his status. I am only third generation. He was the one who rose up.”

- Grandson Robert H. N. Ho

Sources

BOOKS

  • A. R Burt, J.B. Powell and Carl Crow (eds), Biographies of Prominent Chinese (1925)

  • 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)

  • David Faure, A Documentary History of Hong Kong: Society (1997)

  • Jean Gittins, Behind Barbed Wire (1982)

  • Alexander Grantham, Via Ports: From Hong Kong to Hong Kong (1965)

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

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

  • Hong Kong Centenary Commemorative Talks, 1841-1941 (1941)

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

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

  • Frances Tse Liu, Ho Kom Tong: A Man for All Seasons (2003)

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

  • Elizabeth Sinn, Power and Charity: A Chinese Merchant Elite in Hong Kong (2003)

  • 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)

  • Arnold Wright (ed), Twentieth Century Impressions of Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Other Treaty Ports in China (1908)

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

 

NEWSPAPERS

  • New York Times, September 28, 1908; San Francisco Chronicle, 11 November 1908

  • South China Morning Post, 3 December 1941, 27 April-2 May, 1956

  • The Straits Times, 27 April, 1956

 

ONLINE

 

RADIO

  • Paul Harrison, “Sir Robert Ho Tung” and “Ho Kom Tong” in Hong Kong History with Paul Harrison, RTHK Podcasts, (2011, 2010)

 

INTERVIEWS

  • Mr Robert H. N. Ho, October 2015