This image previously appeared in Terry Bennett's "History of Photography in China: Chinese Photographers 1844-1879", published by Bernard Quaritch in 2013, with the caption:
Fig. 6.34. Notice concerning the naturalisation of Lai Fong, Hongkong
Government Gazette, 22nd December 1883.
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It is reproduced here with the permission of the author and publisher.
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