Author Bio Born and educated in Hong Kong, Elizabeth Sinn is an historian with a general research interest in modern China and Hong Kong and special interest in the history of charity, business, culture, the press and migration. She served as Deputy Director of the Centre of Asian Studies at Hong Kong University and was a member of the Humanities Panel of the Hong Kong Research Grants Council. Since 2006, she has been leading the Hong Kong Memory Project which aims to create a website for materials on Hong Kong’s history, culture and heritage. Her previous books include Power and Charity: A Chinese Merchant Elite in Colonial Hong Kong (Hong Kong University Press, 2003).