- Title Pages
- Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Studies Series
- Dedication
- List of Illustrations
- Abbreviations
- Abbreviations
- Foreword
- New Preface
- New Introduction
- Preface
- Introduction
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1 Politics -
2 Life in the Camp I -
3 Life in the Camp II -
4 Life in the Camp III -
5 The Final Months and Liberation -
6 A Summing Up - A Note on Personal Interviews
- Appendices
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Appendix II -
Appendix III Deaths during Internment (from the gravestones, Stanley Cemetery) -
Appendix IV -
Appendix V (The Stericker Papers, Appendix V) -
Appendix VI -
Appendix VII (from The Stericker Papers, Appendix VI) -
Appendix VIII (from The Stericker Papers, Appendix II) -
Appendix IX (from The Stericker Papers, Appendix VIII) -
Appendix X -
Appendix XI ‘Stanley Recipes’ -
Appendix XII ‘A Farewell to Stanley’ -
Appendix XIII (from The Stericker Papers, Appendix IV) -
Appendix XIV Broadcast by Mr. Gimson, 16th September 1945 Prior to His Departure from Hong Kong -
Additional Appendix I -
Additional Appendix II -
Additional Appendix III -
Additional Appendix IV -
Additional Appendix V -
Additional Appendix VI -
Additional Appendix VII - Bibliography
- Additional Bibliography
- Index
Life in the Camp III
Life in the Camp III
- Chapter:
- (p.151) 4 Life in the Camp III
- Source:
- Hong Kong Internment, 1942-1945
- Author(s):
Geoffrey Charles Emerson
- Publisher:
- Hong Kong University Press
This chapter discusses the securing of goods or money by illegal means known as the “black market” in Stanley Camp. It notes that trading is considered illegal as it is against the rules of the Japanese occupying Hong Kong. It observes that there were several facets to the black market: first, there was trading “over the wire” between the guards and internees; secondly, there was trading within the Camp, either from the guards or internee traders. It further observes that the trade was largely one in which the internees sold jewellery, gold, or other possessions for yen and the internees could also buy yen by writing sterling cheques to fellow internees who had yen to dispose of. It notes that these cheques were payable after the end of the war. It further notes that there was a great deal of trading of articles themselves, both among the internees and between the internees and guards.
Keywords: black market, Stanley camp, trading, Japanese, Hong Kong, guards, yen, sterling cheques, war
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- Title Pages
- Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Studies Series
- Dedication
- List of Illustrations
- Abbreviations
- Abbreviations
- Foreword
- New Preface
- New Introduction
- Preface
- Introduction
-
1 Politics -
2 Life in the Camp I -
3 Life in the Camp II -
4 Life in the Camp III -
5 The Final Months and Liberation -
6 A Summing Up - A Note on Personal Interviews
- Appendices
-
Appendix II -
Appendix III Deaths during Internment (from the gravestones, Stanley Cemetery) -
Appendix IV -
Appendix V (The Stericker Papers, Appendix V) -
Appendix VI -
Appendix VII (from The Stericker Papers, Appendix VI) -
Appendix VIII (from The Stericker Papers, Appendix II) -
Appendix IX (from The Stericker Papers, Appendix VIII) -
Appendix X -
Appendix XI ‘Stanley Recipes’ -
Appendix XII ‘A Farewell to Stanley’ -
Appendix XIII (from The Stericker Papers, Appendix IV) -
Appendix XIV Broadcast by Mr. Gimson, 16th September 1945 Prior to His Departure from Hong Kong -
Additional Appendix I -
Additional Appendix II -
Additional Appendix III -
Additional Appendix IV -
Additional Appendix V -
Additional Appendix VI -
Additional Appendix VII - Bibliography
- Additional Bibliography
- Index
