Vaudine England
KITLV, Leiden University
A journalist covering Southeast Asia for 35 years, I worked for the Far Eastern Economic Review, the BBC, Reuters, etc. Now I’m a historian, completing a PhD at Leiden’s Institute for Southeast Asian Studies, to show that ‘Southeast Asia’ also includes Hong Kong – which could not have existed without its Asian peoples and trades. After several privately published works of historical investigation into Hong Kong institutions, families and companies, I now have a general interest book coming out in New York, called Fortune’s Bazaar – the Making of Hong Kong, which shows how South and Southeast Asian peoples (here named and their networks traced) were fundamental to what has wrongly been called ‘a Chinese city’.
