Richard Charles Lee Canada-Hong Kong Library

Remembrance Day is a day for all Canadians to remember those who served and sacrificed for the country. Over 600 Chinese Canadians had served in the Second World War. Some of most notable were men of Force 136, the unit established to conduct espionage, sabotage, and reconnaissance behind enemy lines. Learn more about their stories via the following video. https://www.youtube.com/watch

Primary Source: The Hong Kong Protests Collection. The crowdsourced collection contains numerous video clips and images related to the ongoing demonstrations against the 2019 extradition bill proposed by the Hong Kong SAR Government. You can access it via the following link: https://archive.org/details/HongKongProtests2019

Free e-resource: Hong Kong Image Database is a digital collection by the University of Hong Kong Libraries that features a wealth of images of Hong Kong from the 1840s through to the 1990s. The digital vault of historical images Is freely available for public consultation. https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/hkimage/

Free E-Resource: Hong Kong Studies. With international advisory and editorial boards, the journal is the world’s first bilingual academic journal to focus exclusively on Hong Kong. Teachers, scholars, researchers, journalists, and students interested in Hong Kong will find this publication a comprehensive and indispensable reference. The journal is open access online. https://cup.cuhk.edu.hk/journals

Primary Sources: Hong Kong Oral History Archives: Collective Memories contains over 200 interview records of individuals from a diversity of sectors, ethnic groups, trades and occupations, associations, and communities in and around Hong Kong. HKU Libraries and the Centre of Asian Studies have jointly compiled these materials and made them available to the public for use of academic, educational, and non-profit making purposes. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkoh/