John Carroll

John CARROLL (PhD, Harvard University) is Principal Lecturer in the Department of History at the University of Hong Kong, where he directs the MA programme in Hong Kong History and teaches courses on the history of Hong Kong, the British Empire, museums, and tourism. Raised and educated in Hong Kong, Carroll has also taught at the University of Texas at Austin, the College of William and Mary, and Saint Louis University. He is the author of Edge of Empires: Chinese Elites and British Colonials in Hong Kong (2005), A Concise History of Hong Kong (2007), Canton Days: British Life and Death in China (2019), China Hands and Old Cantons: The British in the Middle Kingdom (2021), and The Hong Kong-China Nexus (2022), and has published articles on Hong Kong history and society in Modern Asian Studies, Twentieth-Century China, and China Information. His research interests include the history of Hong Kong and encounters between China and the West. He is currently writing a book on tourism and recovery in post-WWII Hong Kong.