"Hotels" for the dead waiting for repatriation to mainland China

Submitted by ChrisR on Mon, 07/04/2011 - 22:21

When I was a boy in Hong Kong in the 1950s, there were some strange empty-looking buildings, which according to my Chinese mother were "hotels" where coffins were stored awaiting repatriation to mainland China. Is this just a story or did these warehouses really exist?

Hi there,

If you are interested and if you could read Chinese, TWGH had scanned their archived and compiled a set of compilations and one of them mainly focused on the Coffin Home and its International Service Network.

Until early Jaunary 2011, there was an Exhibition in the Hong Kong Museum of History concerning TWGH.

There was also a movie using the Coffin Home in Pokfulam as the background of one of the main characters.  There is an MV for this movie.  You should be able to recognise the singer as he starred as Kato in the new Green Hornet earlier.

Best Regards,

T