Contents: 1. Land of bondage / Edward MacElroy -- 2. Village people / Luke M. O'Reilly -- 3. Four felons / John Casey, Patrick Ronan, Owen O'Kane, Patrick Reilly.

Contents: Preface -- 1. Setting the Scene: 1552-1926 -- 2. A Vigorous Beginning: the decisive first year, December 1926 - December 1927 -- 3. Years of Achievement and Loss: 1928-1933 -- 4. Personalities, Institutions, Refugees in a Background of War: 1933-1940 -- 5. The Rock Magazine. Wah Yan College. 1932-1941 -- 6. In Times of War: Occupation and Dispersal, 1941-1946: Hong Kong, Free China, Macau, India -- 7. Post-War Expectations and a New Superior of the Mission, 1946-1948 -- 8. The Communist Advance. Withdrawal to Hong Kong, and Criticism -- 9. Removal of Thomas Ryan as Superior, 1950 - and the Aftermath -- 10. A Time of Communist Expansion, New Mission and New Buildings: October 1950 - May 1957 -- 11. Part 1 - Renewed Confidence and Expansion, Fr. Thomas Byrne 1957-1960 Part 2 - Years of Great Change 1960-1965 -- 12. Years of High Hopes and Forewarnings: 1965-1968 -- 13. Loft Aims amid Confusion and Loss: 1969-1971 -- 14. A Turbid and Troubled Time: 1972-1978 -- 15. The Years 1978-1985: Vice-Province to Province, and the Fear of 1997 -- 16. 1985-1991 Years of Uncertainty and Change -- 17. 1991-1996 Years of Expectation and New Structures -- 18. Part of China. Facing Uncertainty 1996-2002 -- 19. 2003-2006 The Work Goes On -- 20. Epilogue: 1926-2006; and Author's Recollections -- Appendices -- Pictorial Memories -- Index

The laughter and the weeping : an old China hand remembers / Luke O'Reilly.