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Scouting in Hong Kong, 1910-2010, originally issued in 2011 as a hardcover book when the Hong Kong youth movement celebrated its centenary, is republished with revisions in 2024 as a paperback and an ebook. The narratives and analyses developed here covered the ""what, how, when and who"" and the ""why and so what"" of the development of Hong Kong Scouting from 1910 to 2010, using a large volume of primary sources. It tells the story of Hong Kong Scouting based on the theme of citizenship training for youth and its defining categories, especially that of race, class, gender and age, both colonial and post-colonial. The book is also richly illustrated with many interesting and instructive images, both from private and archival sources. It is a critical study aimed at both general readers and specialists with more specific interests, and should enrich their understanding of the histories of Scouting, youth, citizenship education, the colonies, the British Empire, decolonization, China and Hong Kong.

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Paul Kua holds a Ph. D. in history and is a Fellow of Royal Historical Society. He has published studies in English or Chinese on history of East-West encounters, mission history in Asia, Chinese numismatics, and history of education and Scouting. Recent works incl. Scouting in Hong Kong, 1910-2010, 2nd ed. (London: Propius, 2024), Europe meets Formosa, 1510-1662 (London: Propius, 2023), Two Centuries of Excellence (H.K.: Joint Publishing., 2022), 香港童軍故事(香港 三聯, 2019), 皕載英華(香港 三聯, 2018), and peer reviewed articles in academic journals issued by Academia Sinica, Brill, Oxford Univ. Press, Routledge, Tsing Hua Univ. and other publishers.

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