Power and Charity: The Early History of the Tung Wah Hospital, Hong Kong (East Asian Historical Monographs) [signed] [first edition]

The Tung Wah Hospital was founded in 1869 to provide medical and charitable services for the Chinese population of Hong Kong. This book's description of the hospital's work illustrates how Chinese voluntary associations functioned in the nineteenth century and shows the important social andpolitical role the Hospital Committee played in Hong Kong in the nineteenth century. This title also appears in the History of Medicine section of the Science and Medicine Quarterly Bulletin.