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Taken in December 1981 by Lawrence Chan, who had left Nam Chung since the mid-1950s, working as a seaman around the world and later settled in Australia. The photo shows a row of three houses overlooking a small piece of fenced farmland with winter sweet potato crops. If you look closely you'll see two bare wood trunks on the left, they were used for hanging live dogs where they were cut in the throat and left to bleed to death. Grotesque. Although eating dog meat had been banned in Hong Kong since the 1950s, the practice remains common in the New Territories throughout the decades.