Curriculum Vitae
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Name:
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Susanna
Hoe
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Born:
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1945,
Southampton, England
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Nationality:
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British
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Marital
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Married
to Derek Roebuck (1981)
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Email:
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susanna@holobooks.co.uk
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Education:
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1952-1956
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Thomson's
Falls School
Kenya
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1957-1961
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Limuru Girls School, Kenya
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1961-1962
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Institut Bleu Leman, Switzerland
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1962
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University
for Foreigners, Perugia ,
Italy (6 months)
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1980-1982
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London
School of Economics (LSE); 2 years of BSc Econ. in Russian Government,
History and Language
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1983-1984
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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
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1991
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RSA
TEFL certificate, British Council, Hong Kong
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Professional
Experience:
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1966-1973
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Research
assistant, House of Commons, London
(for an individual Member of Parliament and all-Party group of MPs)
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1974
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Administrative
assistant, group of Peers, House of Lords.
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1975-1976
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Freelance
writer, Help the Aged and the Scott
Bader Commonwealth
(see publications)
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1977-1980
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Campaign
Coordinator, British Section, Amnesty International
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1983-1985
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Weekly
column, The Times of Papua New Guinea -
'International Bookshelf'
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1985-1986
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Part
time tutor, Department of Anthropology and Sociology, University of Papua
New Guinea
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1988-1993
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Monthly
column, 'Women', Liverpool Daily Post and Echo - 'Letter from Hong Kong '
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1991-
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Research
Associate, then Honorary Research Fellow, Centre of Asian Studies, University of Hong
Kong
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1991-1997
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Founder
Member AWARE (Association of Women for Action and Research)
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1991-1997
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TEFL
teacher, Women's Centre, Hong Kong
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1993-1997
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Articles
for Women's Feature Service, New
Delhi
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2003
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(Oct-Nov)
Lectures 'Women Travellers' (with Deborah Manley) Oxford University
Continuing Education (Rewley
House)
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2004
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(Sept)
'Some Globetrotters in Ceylon',
National Portrait Gallery, London
, 'Women Travellers Study Day'
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2007
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Guest
at Shanghai International Literary Festival and The Man Hong Kong
International Literary Festival
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Published
(Fiction)
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Lady in the Chamber (a political novel about the
House of Commons) (Collins 1971)
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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
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The Man Who Gave His Company Away: A Biography
of Ernest Bader, Founder of the Scott
Bader Commonwealth
(Heinemann 1978)
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The
Private Life of Old Hong Kong: Western Women
in the British Colony 1841-1941 (Oxford University Press 1991)
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Chinese
Footprints: Exploring Women's History in China
, Hong Kong and Macau (Roundhouse Publications
Asia 1996)
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Stories
for Eva: A Reader for Chinese Women Learning English (Hong Kong Language Fund
1997)
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The
Taking of Hong Kong: Charles and Clara Elliot in China Waters (Curzon Press
1999 / Hong Kong University Press 2009)
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Women
at the Siege, Peking 1900 (HOLO Books 2000)
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At
Home in Paradise: A House and Garden in Papua New Guinea (HOLO Books 2003)
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Madeira: Women, History,
Books and Places (HOLO Books 2004)
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Crete: Women, History,
Books and Places (HOLO Books 2005)
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Watching
the Flag Come Down: An Englishwoman in Hong Kong 1987-1997 (HOLO Books 2007)
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Tasmania:
Women, History, Books and Places (HOLO Books 2010)
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Travels
in Tandem: The Writing of Women and Men Who Travelled Together (HOLO Books
2012)
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Malta: Women, History, Books and Places (HOLO Books 2015)
Articles, Papers, Chapters
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'The Human Face of Capitalism: The Relationship
Between Business and Voluntary Organisations' for Help the Aged 1974
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Pamphlets
for Amnesty International 1977-1982
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'White
Women in the Colonies: Were They Responsible for Setting Up Racial Barriers?' Bikmaus , Port
Moresby , 1984
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'Queen's
Women: Western Prostitutes in Hong Kong 1841-1931' International Association of
Historians of Asia 1991
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'Poor
Mary Ann and the Robbers' in Chronicles Abroad, Hong Kong eds
J & K Miller, Chronicle Books, San Francisco 1994
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Research
papers for AWARE (Association of Women for Action and Research) (1991-1997)
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'After
Reading Xiao Hong: The Experience and Expression
of Xiao Hong and Agnes Smedley' 1st international
symposium, Women and Literature, Peking
University , June 1995
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Entries
in Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women: The Qing Period 1644-1911, ed.
Clara Wing-chung Ho, M.E.
Sharpe 1998
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'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
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'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