What's new and updated on the Gwulo website:

General

• A 1941 report about travelling from Hong Kong to Shanghai on a 'blackout boat'.
   
• Keiji Makimura's memories of the Japanese surrender in August 1945: Part one - Part two.
   
• Early 20th-century schools on Cheung Chau
   
• 1959 tourist video of Hong Kong: A Million Lights Shall Glow
   
• Quick Links - a collection of useful resources when researching Hong Kong's history.
   
• Readers ask:
  • What was the "Gas-House Club" in Stanley Camp?

The Chinese version of Gwulo's book

For subscribers in Taiwan, I can see the Chinese version of Gwulo's book is now listed at several online stores:

• Books.com.tw
• Cosmed.com.tw
• Iread.com.tw
• Momoshop.com.tw
• Taaze.tw
   

Places

What's new and updated on the Gwulo website:

General

• Pan Am's "Clipper" flying boats revolutionised passenger travel and mail services between Hong Kong and America. Stuart Braga tells us their story in his post: The China Clipper: Pan Am flies to Macau and Hong Kong, 1937-1941
    

  

   

• Watch several films of Hong Kong in the 1930s
   
• The 80th anniversary of the Japanese surrender will soon be here. Follow the dramatic events of August / September 1945 via daily entries from diaries written 80 years ago:
  • Read today's diary entries
     
  • Sign up to receive daily diary entries from 80 years ago via free email
     
  • Read "Sweet Waters", an account of the Allied fleet's entry to Hong Kong's harbour in late August, 1945.
     
• Readers ask:
  • When was ice cream first sold in Hong Kong?
     
  • Do any enrolment lists for Ying Wa Boys School around the 1850s still exist?

The Chinese version of Gwulo's book

It is now available in bookstores including Book Punch 一拳書館, Cosmos Books, Hong Kong Reader, and Lion's Ink Bookstore.

You can also buy it online at Chung Hwa, HKTV mall, and My Book One.
 

Places

What's new and updated on the Gwulo website:

General

• Robin Bottomley-Smith has uploaded copies of the postcards his grandfather sent from Hong Kong to his fiancée back in Yorkshire between 1924 and 1928. There's an example below, then see the full set here.
   

  

  
   

• The 1887 Jurors List was finished in record time and is now online to view. We've started work on typing up the list for 1886, so if you can spare around half an hour, please join in and type up a page.
   
• Memories of “Fred Brown” and Far East Farm in 1970s Stanley.
   
• Readers ask:
  • Which year was this nighttime view of Hong Kong island taken?
     
  • When were palm trees first planted in colonial HK, and where did they come from?
     
  • Has anyone seen any photos of the construction of the Peak Tram?
     
  • Where was Club Germania first located?
     

  • Where is the foundation stone that Prince Philip laid at Queen Elizabeth Hospital?

    

    
     

  • Was this photo of Robin's mother taken on the balcony of Havelock Terrace, with the Whampoa Foundry in the background?

    

     

The Chinese version of Gwulo's book

If you bought a copy of the Chinese translation of my first book, or let a friend know about it, thank you! The publisher's website was showing 'sold out' a few days ago, but is now taking orders again, with 20% off any orders placed in July and delivery expected in mid-August. I'm waiting for their confirmation, but I'm hoping that this means the first print run sold out, and that the book is now being reprinted. 

It's a great start, so thank you all very much for your help.
 

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