Curriculum Vitae

Name:

Susanna Hoe

Born:

14 April 1945, Southampton, England

Nationality:

British

Marital Status:

Married to Derek Roebuck (1981)

Email:

susanna@holobooks.co.uk

 

 

 

Education:

1952-1956

Thomson's Falls School Kenya

 

1957-1961

Limuru Girls School, Kenya

 

1961-1962    

Institut Bleu Leman, Switzerland

 

1962

University for Foreigners, Perugia , Italy (6 months)

 

1980-1982

London School of Economics (LSE); 2 years of BSc Econ. in Russian Government, History and Language

 

1983-1984

University of Papua New Guinea , BA, majoring in Economic and Pacific History (11 As); UPNG Pacific History prize 1984; Te Tangi Hiroa Pacific History Prize 1984, Pacific Universities

 

1991

RSA TEFL certificate, British Council, Hong Kong

 

 

 

Professional
Experience:

1966-1973

Research assistant, House of Commons, London (for an individual Member of Parliament and all-Party group of MPs)

 

1974

Administrative assistant, group of Peers, House of Lords.

 

1975-1976

Freelance writer, Help the Aged and the Scott Bader Commonwealth (see publications)

 

1977-1980

Campaign Coordinator, British Section, Amnesty International

 

1983-1985

Weekly column, The Times of Papua New Guinea - 'International Bookshelf'

 

1985-1986

Part time tutor, Department of Anthropology and Sociology, University of Papua New Guinea

 

1988-1993

Monthly column, 'Women', Liverpool Daily Post and Echo - 'Letter from Hong Kong '

 

1991-

Research Associate, then Honorary Research Fellow, Centre of Asian Studies, University of Hong Kong

 

1991-1997

Founder Member AWARE (Association of Women for Action and Research)

 

1991-1997

TEFL teacher, Women's Centre, Hong Kong

 

1993-1997

Articles for Women's Feature Service, New Delhi

 

2003

(Oct-Nov) Lectures 'Women Travellers' (with Deborah Manley) Oxford University Continuing Education (Rewley House)

2004

(Sept) 'Some Globetrotters in Ceylon', National Portrait Gallery, London , 'Women Travellers Study Day' 

 

2007

Guest at Shanghai International Literary Festival and The Man Hong Kong International Literary Festival

 

 

Published (Fiction)

  • Lady in the Chamber (a political novel about the House of Commons) (Collins 1971)
  • God Save the Tsar (a historical novel about the escape of the Russian imperial family from Ekaterinburg) (Michael Joseph/St Martin's Press 1978)

Non-Fiction

  • The Man Who Gave His Company Away: A Biography of Ernest Bader, Founder of the Scott Bader Commonwealth (Heinemann 1978)
  • The Private Life of Old Hong Kong: Western Women in the British Colony 1841-1941 (Oxford University Press 1991)
  • Chinese Footprints: Exploring Women's History in China , Hong Kong and Macau (Roundhouse Publications Asia 1996)
  • Stories for Eva: A Reader for Chinese Women Learning English (Hong Kong Language Fund 1997)
  • The Taking of Hong Kong: Charles and Clara Elliot in China Waters (Curzon Press 1999)
  • Women at the Siege, Peking 1900 (HOLO Books 2000)
  • At Home in Paradise: A House and Garden in Papua New Guinea (HOLO Books 2003)
  • Madeira: Women, History, Books and Places (HOLO Books 2004)
  • Crete: Women, History, Books and Places (HOLO Books 2005)
  • Watching the Flag Come Down: An Englishwoman in Hong Kong 1987-1997 (HOLO Books 2007)

Articles, Papers, Chapters

  • 'The Human Face of Capitalism: The Relationship Between Business and Voluntary Organisations' for Help the Aged 1974
  • Pamphlets for Amnesty International 1977-1982
  • 'White Women in the Colonies: Were They Responsible for Setting Up Racial Barriers?' Bikmaus , Port Moresby , 1984
  • 'Queen's Women: Western Prostitutes in Hong Kong 1841-1931' International Association of Historians of Asia 1991
  • 'Poor Mary Ann and the Robbers' in Chronicles Abroad, Hong Kong eds J & K Miller, Chronicle Books, San Francisco 1994
  • Research papers for AWARE (Association of Women for Action and Research) (1991-1997)
  • 'After Reading Xiao Hong: The Experience and Expression of Xiao Hong and Agnes Smedley' 1st international symposium, Women and Literature, Peking University , June 1995
  • Entries in Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women: The Qing Period 1644-1911, ed. Clara Wing-chung Ho, M.E. Sharpe 1998
  • 'Silence of the Sources: Women and the Siege of the Legations 1900', Conference Workshop '1900: The Boxers, China and the World', SOAS, London, 23 June 2001
  • 'It Made Their Blood Boil: The British Feminist Campaign Against Licensed Prostitution in Hong Kong, 1931' in Gendering Hong Kong eds Anita Kit-wa Chan & Wong Wai-ling (Hong Kong Culture and Society Programme) Oxford University Press 2004