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Share Since booking my trip to Hong Kong, I’ve been thinking about the places I hope to see in those four short days this April. But I’ve also been recalling my first year in Hong Kong when I moved there as a 19 year-old in the summer of 1990. This photo was taken days after my arrival. [...] Share Two weeks ago I came face to face with a tough decision (tough at the time) when Cathay Pacific announced a dirt cheap round-trip, non-stop flight from Chicago to Hong Kong. I haven’t been back to Hong Kong since I left in 1998, pregnant with my first child and married to someone who is [...] Share After much anticipation, I finally received and read Tim Luard‘s fabulous Escape from Hong Kong: Admiral Chan Chak’s Christmas Day Dash, 1941 (Hong Kong University Press, 2012). And boy did it not disappoint. This has to be one of the most exciting wartime escape stories–and probably the most underreported one. To start, the cast of [...] Share If you’ve been following this site much, you’ll notice I love anniversaries: the 100th anniversary of Double Ten, the 100th anniversary of the Republic of China, and the various anniversaries of the Fall of Saigon and the Hong Kong Handover. I suppose I’m into these milestones because they bring together my passion for history and [...] Share Christmas in Hong Kong meant something else this year: the 70th anniversary of the fall of Hong Kong, otherwise known as Black Christmas. Fighting broke out on December 8, 1941 and ended with British Hong Kong surrendering to the Japanese on Christmas Day 70 years ago–in the Peninsula Hotel, which was renamed the Toa (or [...] |
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