Foreword

At first the heart longsFor the absent familiarCosmopolitan Hong KongIts chaos, its anomalies, its powerOr England, my other worldOr some landmark somewhere(Louise Ho, “Migratory”, 1997)This issue focuses on the historical, literary and cultural links between Great Britain and two of its former colonies, India and Hong Kong. This field has hardly been studied in France so far. Although a number of recent works focused on the links between India and China, especially in the political, economi...