Andrew Yanne is a native of Hong Kong, educated in the U.K., now retired from textile manufacturing. He has had a life-long interest in photography. Gillis Heller is a long-time resident of Hong Kong, a lawyer for a public company, with a keen interest in Hong Kong history. Andrew Yanne is Gillis Heller's???(mother's younger brother).
This is an interesting, useful and well-researched book, which will appeal to many readers. The street names and other place names of Hong Kong are perennially fascinating, and this book will answer many hard questions. -- Patrick H. Hase, immediate past president of Royal Asiatic Society, Hong Kong Branch This is an absorbing book which historians and general readers have long been waiting for. We 'Old Hong Kong Hands' are not infrequently asked how a certain street or road got its name. Signs of a Colonial Era will provide most of the answers. -- Dan Waters, past president of Royal Asiatic Society, Hong Kong Branch Fertile with detail and information, yet easily accessible, entertaining and indispensable to serious students of the toponymics of colonial societies and informed general readers alike, Signs of a Colonial Era provides a long overdue, sign-post-led, detailed appraisal of how urban Hong Kong's history, culture and society gradually evolved from 1841 onwards. -- Jason Wordie, Hong Kong historian and author
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