Austin Coates
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Austin Coates, (1922 - 1997), was a British writer who lived most of his adult life in Asia.
Austin Coates was the son of noted English composer Eric Coates.
In Hong Kong, Austin Coates was a Special Magistrate in the New Territories in the 1950s. He travelled widely throughout India and the Far East.
About 1944, Coates travelled in India and befriended Jamini Roy (1887-1972), an Indian painter. Coates supported, promoted, and collected his works.
[edit] Bibliography
- Myself a Mandarin
- City of Broken Promises, Hong Kong, Oxford University Press, 2nd edition 1987 (1st edition: 1967), 314 pp. A novel based on the life of Martha Merop, who rose from Chinese origins and abandonment at birth to great success in business and a liaison with Thomas Kuyck van Meriop, a principal of the British East India Company.
- Rizal, Philippine Nationalist and Martyr, 1968, Oxford University Press. José Rizal is the national hero of the Philippines.
- Macao and the British, 1637-1842, Prelude to Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Oxford University Press, 2nd edition 1988 (1st edition: 1966), 234 pp.
- A Macau Narrative, Hong Kong, Oxford University Press, 2nd edition 1999 (1st edition: 1978), 146 pp., preface by Cesar Guillen-Nunez
- Quick Tidings of Hong Kong
- China Races about the history of racing on the China Coast (and commissioned by the Royal Hong Kong Jockey Club).
- A Mountain of Light: The Story of the Hongkong Electric Company
- Whampoa Ships on the Shore
- Numerology, paperback ISBN 0-8216-2506-3
- Islands of the South
- Western Pacific Islands (The Corona library)
- Personal and Oriental
- Invitation to an Eastern Feast
- Road
- The Commerce in Rubber: The First 250 Years
- Basutoland (Corona library)
- Portuguese Roots in Africa
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