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Abstract
The history of Hong Kong has until recently been badly neglected by the community of scholars. Monographs on the history of Hong Kong have been so rare that some British studies published many decades ago are still considered to be the authoritative works on the subject. For instance, E. J. Eitel's Europe in China: The History of Hong Kong from the Beginning to the Year 1882, first published in 1895, was reprinted by Oxford University Press as late as 1983.