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SUSANNA HOE has spent half
her life abroad: in Kenya, Switzerland, Italy, Papua New Guinea and Hong
Kong. This has encouraged her interest
in writing about women, mostly British, who
have lived in
foreign places.
Her
first
book, of twelve, a
parliamentary novel (Lady in the Chamber, Collins ) was published in
1971.
Five years in Papua New Guinea resulted in At
Home in Paradise: A House and Garden in Papua New Guinea (HOLO Books,
2003)
.
Ten years in Hong Kong
and subsequently have seen the publication of six books, mainly about
foreign women in the region. Typical are The Private Life of Old Hong Kong
(Oxford University Press, 1991) and Women at the
Siege,Peking 1900 (HOLO, Books 2000).
In Chinese Footprints: Exploring Women's
History in China, Hong Kong and Macau (Roundhouse, 1996), she shows
most clearly the links between the past and the present, how women
activists can pick up the baton handed them by their forebears.
This aspect of her writing is manifest in the story of her own time
in Hong Kong, published as Watching
the Flag Come Down: An Englishwoman in Hong Kong 1987-97 (HOLO Books,
2007) to mark the tenth anniversary of the return of Hong Kong to
China.
She is now finalising her research for Foreign Daughters of Old
Shanghai: Radical Western
Women in
China
1919-1949.
She is also continuing work on the series of her devising 'Of
Islands and Women'. HOLO Books have published Madeira (2004) and Crete
(2005) with the subtitle Women,
History, Books and Places. Tasmania
is next (2008). These livrets are updated on this website - Crete has now
been added to Madeira.
She and her husband Derek Roebuck live in
Oxford.
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