1. An earlier version of dm paper was presented et the 7th International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments conference held in Trani, Italy, 12-15 October 2000, and appeared as 'Remembering through Space: a communal hall in post-colonial Hong Kong', in N. AlSayyad (ed.) Traditional dwellings and settlements, Working Paper Series Na 130, Berkeley: International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments, University of California, Berkeley, 2000, pp. 29-41.
2. See C.M. Hung, Yuen" Long historical relics and monument, Hong Kong: Yuen Long District Board, 1996, p. 29.
3. V. Button, 'Ramshackle trail of the unexpected', South China Morning Pist, 3 March 2002.
4. See G.E. Marcus & M.M.J. Fischer, Anthropology as cultural critique: OH experimental marnent in the human sciences, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986, p. 64; sec also G.E. Marcus, Ethnography through thick and thin, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998.
5. For detailed analysis upon different tourists/visitors and their various intentions during their visit to the Ping Shan Heritage Trail in Yuen Long, sec S. Cheung, The meanings of a heritage trail in Hong Kong', Annals of Tourism Research, Vol. 26, 1999, pp. 370-598.