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Forward to Beijing! A Guide to the Summer Olympics
Highly topical! Crammed with details, anecdotes, history and factual resources.
Contains:
The only collected, corrected, annotated, introduced, published edition of important source materials, with brief biographies of four of the writers and archival photographs. Supported by the Council of the Lord Wilson Heritage Trust.
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"An essential resource for those researching colonial education policy." -- Norman Miners, University of Hong Kong, in "The Journal of Imperial and Colonial History".
"For the Record" was written during a residence of thirty years in Hong Kong and presents people, nature, city-scenes, thoughts, experiences and cultural events.
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For the Record and other Poems
"Thought-provoking and entertaining." "Not even the American minimalist William Carlos Williams could zero in on and capture a detail with more panache." "Bickley succeeds in conveying the character of the Fragrant Harbour with humorous rigour." -- David Wilson, "Sunday Morning Post".
"She skillfully fuses the human and the natural world." -- David McKirdy, "Asian Review of Books".
"A perceptive account of life and people mostly in Hong Kong, rendered with empathy, humour and surprise." -- Agnes Lam.
"Gillian Bickley�s version of Hong Kong is based on the knowledge gained as a long-term resident. She puts her findings on the record." -- Andrew Parkin, Paris.
"The poet's presence is tangible throughout, from poems on materialism to marriage, and expatriate life to the 1997 'handback -- not Handover -- to China'." -- Madeleine Marie Slavick.
"In Bickley's own inimitable style." -- Dr Dan Waters, author of "One Couple Two Cultures".
"Bickley�s work is fun to read. She is an expatriate, but sometimes with a local perspective." -- Cindy Yik-Yi Chu, "Hong Kong Journal of Modern Chinese History".
"fresh, insightful and in rhythm with the sensitivities of a community passing through a period of political and social change" "an important contribution to the evolution of cross-cultural poetry in, and about, Hong Kong" -- Ian Wotherspoon, "The Overseas Pensioner", UK, 2006. (From a review of both "Moving House and other Poems from Hong Kong" and "For The Record and other Poems of Hong Kong".)
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The biography of the Founder of Hong Kong Government Education and first headmaster of Queen�s College (then the Central School), with archival photographs. ISBN 9628027085.
"Dr Bickley's life of Frederick Stewart is beautifully written, eminently readable, and at times moving." -- Lady Saltoun.
"To all intents and purposes, Stewart's life and work was lost to posterity until the publication of this biography -- the product of some eight years of devoted research which spanned the globe. The end product is certainly worth the effort. . . .We need more studies of this type if we are to understand fully the complexities of colonial rule. . . . The life stories of men like Stewart highlight both the high and low points of colonial service, the personal sacrifices that were often made and the legacies left behind. . . [I] thoroughly enjoyed this book . . .." -- Clive Whitehead, University of Western Australia, in "Int. J. of Lifelong Education".
"Bickley tells the story with unswerving admiration and many vivid touches." -- Douglas Hurd, in "The Scotsman".
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The Golden Needle: The Biography of Frederick Stewart (1836-1889). Full audio
Additionally available with the full audio version on 14 CDs. TEACHER�S / STUDENTS� BOOKLET.
Includes:
Questions to assist reading with understanding.
Focus on writing practice, pronunciation/reading aloud, listening comprehension.
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The Golden Needle: the Biography of Frederick Stewart
The Golden Needle: The Biography of Frederick Stewart. Full audio
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Hong Kong Invaded: A �97 Nightmare
New illustrated edition of "The Back Door", first published in 1897, a fictional work which narrates, with pamphleteering intention, the fictional fall of Hong Kong to the combined forces of France and Russia in 1897, with archival military sketch maps, military and Hong Kong photographs.
Hong Kong�s only contribution to date in English to the genre of future war fiction.
"Discovered by chance and excellently interpreted, The Back Door is a thoroughly illuminating piece." -- Ed Peters, "South China Morning Post".
"Absolutely marvelous illustrations by Arthur Hacker which are themselves worth the cover price." -- Peter Gordon, in "Asian Review of Books".
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A book originally written for young readers (lower secondary / junior high level) based on extensive research. A story of honesty rewarded.
Also suitable for adults interested in the history of the then Royal Hong Kong Jockey Club.
Records past practices of the RHKJC before the opening of the Shatin race-course, particularly with reference to the apprentice jockey system.
The Symposium, "Learning from the Past, Informing the Future", was a two-day event held in 2002 at the Academic Community Hall, Hong Kong Baptist University Campus, on topics related to the book, "The Development of Education in Hong Kong, 1841-1897: As Revealed by the Early Education Reports of the Hong Kong Government, 1848-1896", 2002.
SUBJECT AREA: Frederick Stewart; Criminal Courts & Police Magistrates; Hong Kong China social history; Nineteenth Century sources; Hong Kong (China) social conditions.
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A Magistrate's Court in Nineteenth Century Hong Kong: Court in Time
"The contributors have written with insight and understanding . . . a most readable book". -- Sir T. L. Yang.
"[The] lengthy introduction . . . is a masterly and impartial survey." -- Bradley Winterton, "Taipei Times".
"a useful collection" "Some will not share the editor's opinions of Governor Pope-Hennessy." "these glimpses of one facet of the work of an intelligent and hard-working colonial civil servant reveal what we are privileged to know were qualities shared by many like him." -- Derek Roebuck, "The Overseas Pensioner", No. 90, October 2005, pp. 58-59.
"gives readers . . . interesting insights into life in nineteenth century Hong Kong." "Going through these reported cases is like going through a time tunnel." "readers will . . . come across interesting issues." -- Iu Ting Kwok, Solicitor, in, "Hong Kong Lawyer" (official journal of the Law Society of Hong Kong), October 2005, pp. 91-92 (in Chinese, 93-94)
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"Gillian Bickley writes as she responds to everyday events, always with the echo of 'time's wing�d chariot' in her ears." "The variety of human life and the individual response to life, these are Gillian Bickley�s central interests." "The power that invigorates the poems in Moving House is the control of language. In this bare, tight poetry, no idle words are allowed. Its vocabulary draws on the base language of essences and epiphanies. The chosen spare language is the perfect partner for this poetry of mature experience." -- Emeritus Professor I. F. Clarke and M. Clarke, UK.
"images, as if from a poetic camera, of experiences and reflections of existence in Hong Kong" "the poetic observations of a sensitive writer responding to the reality of being alive" "insightful probing into the darker issues of our lives . . . to make sense of human experience" -- Paul Bench, "Speech & Drama: Journal of the Society of Teachers of Speech and Drama", UK.
"not simply a keenly observed collection of Hong Kong scenes, but also a privileged view into the emotional, intellectual and spiritual life of its writer." "pragmatism accompanied by wry wit" "The profound intimacy of the personal poems, reflecting universal truths about the human condition, renders the reader at once intruder and confidant." "poignant and heart-wrenching observations on ageing and death." -- Solveig Bang, "Sunday Morning Post", HK, 4 June 2006
"Bickley's poems are faithful word portraits of various aspects of Hong Kong at the turn of the millennium: its landscape, its people, its myths and spirits." "Scattered intermittently among these poems are also the poet's personal responses to life and humanity." "In 'Mutuality', the poet articulates the inseparableness of husband and wife:
" -- Twin trees, closely planted,
Reach up to the light; reach out to each other.
One extends, the other yields.
One sheds leaves, the other roots
Deeper. The wind blows. They embrace.
Each other's anchor in the storm.
"This stanza from 'Mutuality' re-writes and expands on a famous line from a Tang poem about a pair of star-crossed lovers: 'In the sky I wish we fly with same wings; on the earth I wish we are trees with roots linked'.
"In this collection of poetry about the city, life, love and death, the definitions of prose and poetry blur. Metrical form almost always gives way to the more immediate and natural rhythm of speech." -- Tammy Ho, Hong Kong, "Asian Review of Books online".
"fresh, insightful and in rhythm with the sensitivities of a community passing through a period of political and social change" "an important contribution to the evolution of cross-cultural poetry in, and about, Hong Kong" -- Ian Wotherspoon, "The Overseas Pensioner", UK, 2006. (From a review of both "Moving House and other Poems from Hong Kong" and "For The Record and other Poems of Hong Kong".)
Three volumes of graded poetry anthologies (kindergarten to adult), with Teachers' Notes and seven cassette tapes.
Readers: Verner Bickley, Gillian Bickley, and two winners from the annual Speech Festival of the Hong Kong Schools Music and Speech Association.
v. 1 for junior students. ISBN 962-2900186.
v. 2 for intermediate students. ISBN 962-2900194.
v. 3 for advanced students. ISBN 962-2900208.
Contains a variety of interesting poems for students to speak, act out, or paint pictures about, with tapes professionally recorded including by professional English speakers. Helpful for learning pronunciation, the art of speaking and listening practice. (Please see order form for prices.) New but spotted. Original prices.
The story of the book, "The Golden Needle" (the biography of the Founder of Hong Kong Government Education).
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Narrative of research, with useful addresses and contact information, intermixed with stories and reflections from the author�s own life experience, mainly in Asia.
Supported by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council.
"Verner Bickley writes in a mostly light-hearted vein, with a gentle humour." -- Sir James Hodge, British Consul General, Hong Kong.
�For genealogists and Hong Kong historians, Verner Bickley�s book is a fascinating guide to biographical research�. -- "South China Morning Post".
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Sightings: a collection of poetry
Bickley draws on events, happenings, creatures, artefacts and objects she has seen, and on places and people she has experienced in Asia, Europe, North America and Africa, as well as on stimulating and memorable books she has read. A final sequence of poems, taken from a long novel in progress, sketches a chronological narrative.
In "Communicating Poems", she considers the practicalities of addressing both local and global audiences in a single edition of poetry. She has expanded and revised this essay from a talk she gave at a University Seminar and now invites feedback from readers on the ideas presented in it.
Black and white photographs illustrate a number of the poems and indicate some of the sights which inspired them. Some enter into dialogue with the poems and others extend them.
"This collection of poems, fittingly called 'Sightings', plays skillfully on the homophonic words 'sight' and 'site' in each poem. Whether the poet is viewing the landscape of the mind, emotions, or the physical and human environs of Hong Kong, she communicates her own unique vision and insight or gillianesque way of looking at or considering an event or encounter. At whatever site she chooses to express her lyrical voice, we experience the poet's feelings travelling from the senses, in particular the sense of sight, to the passions, struggling always to express what words, when poetically framed, can say about our interior selves and external life." -- Marion Bethel
"Gillian Bickley has made use of everyday life situations and turned them into life lessons. 'Sightings' inspires us to slow down and taste the sense of the city." -- Ma Kwai Hung
"Subdued wit" "Beautifully observed" "Gillian Bickley walks around the world with her eyes open, relishing the phenomena she passes." -- Harry Guest
May serve as a reference to writing family history and biography. With archival photographs and facsimiles of documents, with both Hong Kong and Scottish subjects. ISBN 0906265347.
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