Destination Shanghai
For the privileged a cosmopolitan pleasure ground; for the desperate a port of last resort. A pot of gold at the end of an Oriental rainbow; a thick slice of hell denounced from the pulpit. The start...
View ArticleStrangers on the Praia: A Tale of Refugees and Resistance in Wartime Macao
Based on true stories and new research, Paul French weaves together the stories of those Jewish refugees who moved on from wartime Shanghai to seek a possible route to freedom via the Portuguese colony...
View ArticleDestination Peking
New York Times bestselling author Paul French (Midnight in Peking, City of Devils) returns to the Chinese capital to tell 18 true stories of fascinating people who visited the city in the first half of...
View ArticleWhere Strange Gods Call: Harry Hervey’s 1920s Hong Kong, Macao and Canton...
As a young American, Harry Hervey dreamt of travelling to Asia. In 1923, he arrived to spend time in Hong Kong, Macao and Guangzhou. His impressions of southern China are lyrical and detailed,...
View ArticleWanderings in China: Hong Kong and Canton, Christmas and New Year, 1878/1879
Inveterate Victorian traveller and prolific artist Constance Gordon-Cumming roamed far and wide, from the Scottish Highlands to the American West, from the islands of Hawaii to southern China. Even...
View ArticleLING-NAM: Hong Kong, Canton and Hainan Island in the 1880s
Benjamin Couch “BC” Henry was a missionary in Hong Kong and southern China in the second half of the 19th century. Yet he was much more too – a keen observer, a skilled naturalist and an intrepid...
View ArticleChina Revisited: a series bundle
China Revisited is a series of extracted reprints of mid-nineteenth to early-twentieth century Western impressions of Hong Kong, Macao and China. The series comprises excerpts from travelogues or...
View ArticleRoving Through Southern China: An American’s Explorations of Hong Kong, Macao...
In the 1920s the American travel writer Harry A Franck was known to readers as the “Prince of Vagabonds”. His wanderings were family affairs and he arrived in southern China in 1923 with his wife,...
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