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Jason Wordie is a local historian and writer. He is a graduate of the University of Hong Kong, and worked for several years as a civilian teacher with the Brigade of Gurkhas, based at Sek Kong in the New
Territories.
He is the author, with Ko Tim Keung, of Ruins of War: A Guide to Hong Kong’s Battlefields and Wartime Sites, published in 1996.
He has also prepared for publication Sir Lindsay and Lady Ride’s illustrated history of Macao, The Voices of Macao Stones, published by Hong Kong University Press in July 1999. His most recent
publication is Streets: Exploring Hong Kong Island, also published by HKUP in 2002. Streets: Exploring Kowloon is scheduled for publication by HKUP in late 2005.
For some years Jason had two regular columns in the South China Morning Post which explored numerous aspects of local history, culture and society. He is an Honorary Research Associate at the Centre of Asian Studies at Hong Kong University, and a Council Member of the Royal Asiatic Society, Hong Kong Branch.
Hs research interests include the history of the Hong Kong Portuguese community and their contributions to the development of Hong Kong since 1841, the Nursing Detachment of the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps and
various long-standing connections between Hong Kong and South East Asia.
In recent years Jason has conducted numerous walking tours within Hong Kong and Macao for various cultural and community groups such as the YWCA, the American Women’s Association, the Helena May, the Asia Society,
the Canadian Club, the Australian Association and the Royal Geographical Society.
Jason lives in Kam Tin in the north-western New Territories.
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