Ingham Michael. Hong Kong: a cultural history

New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. — xxvi, 254 p. — ISBN: 9780195314960; 9780194314977.Hong Kong is situated slightly south of the Tropic of Cancer on the south-east coast of China. It is the generic name used to refer to an archipelago of 235 islands and the small slice of the China mainland on the peninsula, around which these islands are clustered. Contemporary Hong Kong comprises four distinct sectors: Hong Kong Island, from which the place gets its name; Kowloon, the crowded tip of the Chinese mainland narrowly separated from Hong Kong Island by Victoria Harbour; The New Territories to the north of Kowloon, a more extensive area bordering on China proper; and the scattered Outlying Islands, the biggest of which are inhabited but many of which are not. The total area of the Territory, or Special Administrative Region of Hong Kong, is 425 square miles, roughly double the size of Singapore. Hong Kong Island itself accounts for only thirty square miles of this total.