Susanna Hoe

Susanna Hoe has also written Lady in the Chamber (1971); God Save the Tsar (1978); The Man Who Gave His Company Away: A Biography of Ernest Bader, Founder of the Scott Bader Commonwealth (1978); The Private Life of Old Hong Kong: Western Women in the British Colony 1841–1941 (1991); Chinese Footprints: Exploring Women’s History in China, Hong Kong and Macau (1996); (ed) Stories for Eva: A Reader for Chinese Women Learning English (1997); Women at the Siege, Peking 1900 (2000); At Home in Paradise: A House and Garden in Papua New Guinea (2003); Madeira: Women, History, Books and Places (2004); Crete: Women, History, Books and Places (2005); Watching the Flag Come Down: An Englishwoman in Hong Kong 1987–97 (2007).

Derek Roebuck

Derek Roebuck is author, co-author or editor of more than forty books in ten languages on law and legal history, including the Credit and Security series (10 volumes 1973–80, with David Allan and Mary Hiscock); The Whores of War: Mercenaries Today (1997, with Wilfred Burchett); the bilingual Digest of Hong Kong Law (7 volumes 1995–97); The Background of the Common Law (2nd edition 1990); Introduction to Law in the Hong Kong SAR (1996, with Ian Dobinson); and 5 volumes on the history of arbitration: A Miscellany of Disputes (2000); Ancient Greek Arbitration (2001); The Charitable Arbitrator: How to Mediate and Arbitrate in Lous XIV’s France (2002); Roman Arbitration (2004, with Bruno de Fumichon); Early English Arbitration (2008).
"... The first original contribution to the debate on the opium war in a very long time." – Peter Wesley-Smith, author of Unequal Treaty 1898–1997