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Vegetable cultivation in Hong Kong

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Illustrated by 86 drawings.

The first edition of this book was prepared in a hurry during the hot summer of 1941, under conditions far from ideal; it was written and compiled in the evenings after very busy and long days of preparation for a possible siege of the Colony. The book was scrappy and inaccurate in consequence. Something of the kind was, however, needed as shewn by the fact that the edition was sold out in the course of a few weeks...

Health and medicine in Hong Kong during WW2

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The following chapter describes the medical services and health conditions in Hong Kong during the fighting in 1941 and the Japanese occupation that followed. It appeared in Volume II of "The Civilian Health and Medical Services" by Sir Arthur Salusbury MacNalty, published by H.M. Stationery Office, 1955, which is part of HISTORY OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR, UNITED KINGDOM MEDICAL SERIES

Green Jade

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Green Jade  is an autobiographical account by Dorothy Neale that ends with the death of her husband in 1987. It covers their life in Hong Kong from 1929 to 1940 and subsequent years in Australia with a return to Hong Kong in 1946 for a few years. The family then returned to Australia for good.

A Young Englishman in Victorian Hong Kong: The Diaries of Chaloner Alabaster 1855-1856

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In August 1855, 16-year-old Chaloner Alabaster left England for Hong Kong, to take up a position as a student interpreter in the China Consular Service. He would stay for almost 40 years, climbing the rungs of the service and eventually becoming consul-general of Canton. When he retired he returned to England and received a knighthood. He died in 1898. Throughout his adult life, Alabaster kept diaries.