Jason's Walks




		Historical Tours in Hong Kong and Macao

Jason’s Books

Streets: Exploring Hong Kong Island

The reader is taken on fifty tours through the urban and historic places of Hong Kong Island ranging from Central through Wanchai, to Shau Kei Wan then to Shek O, along the sotuh coast from Stanley to Aberdeen, completing a citcuit of the Island through Pok Fu Lam, Kennedy Twon to Sheung Wan. Each place is introduced with a essay that describes the area and the way it has changed, then the reader is taken on a walk around the area’s streets with the important, interesting, curious and historically illuminating sites described and illustrated.

This is a book to read for the pleasure that the author’s insights give to the lover of Hong Kong, and to use as a guide book when following the suggested routes. The many photographs help make this not just a guide book, but a book to revisit many times as a handsome contemporary record of this ever-changing city.

The Voices of Macao Stones

The stones, statues and memorials found all over Macao trace the story from the days of the first Portuguese navigators to reach China in the sixteenth century to the events of more recent times.

Hidden away in odd corners or standing incongruously surrounded by modern buildings and thronged with traffic, unnoticed by almost all who pass, are the treasure vaults of Macao’s rich and colourful history. In the cool shadows of old churches, set into the walls of long-disused fortresses, and in tranquil and leafy gardens, lie the silent stone keys that unlock the secrets of Macao and its opulent and varied past.

Lindsay and May Ride spent many years researching and documenting the oft-hidden stones of Macao. The result of their work is an opportunity for the stones of Macao themselves to tell of the rich and varied history of this tiny, unlikely place.

Work on this book began in 1954, but was diverted for a long period so that restoration and research on the Old Protestant Cemetary could be completed. In an early stage of its development it was finally halted - or so it seemed at the time - by the death of Sir Lindsay Ride in October 1977.

Now published in the year the four-century-old Portuguese adventure in Macao is finally to conclude, the stories recounted in The Voices of Macao Stones vividly bring to life the individuals, events and circumstances that have made Macao the unique place it is.

Ruins of War

The fall of Hong Kong in December 1941 was the darkest moment in its modern history. Thousands of soldiers and civilians died during the battle for Hong Kong. Yet, despite an heroic defence, Hong Kong surrendered to the Japanese after less than three weeks. Many more suffered under three and a half years of Japanese occupation. Ruins of War explains some of the reasons why this calamity occurred.

The years leading up to the outbreak of war with Japan saw considerable preparations being made for Hong Kong’s defence. Batteries, redoubts and pill-boxes were built over a wide area. Many of them still remain, and most lie within the urban districts. In Ruins of War you will discover why these emplacements came to be built, who manned them in 1941 and to what uses they were later put during the war years. The book also describes the war cemeteries and other memorials - lasting reminders of this tragic episode in Hong Kong’s past.

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