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By Vaudine England I’m still hoping to be proven wrong in claiming that just two serious articles were published in the 20th century on the subject of Eurasians in Hong Kong. The first was Sir Challoner Grenville Alabaster’s 'Observations on Race Mixture in Hong Kong'. The second is Henry Lethbridge’s 'The Best of Both Worlds?', in which Eurasians were described as ‘a natural by-product of the colonial era’. His main
By Vaudine England In my last blog I expressed a hope to be proven wrong in claiming that just two serious articles were published on the subject of Eurasians in Hong Kong in the 20th century. The first was Sir Challoner Grenville Alabaster’s 'Observations on Race Mixture in Hong Kong'. The second came almost half a century later, thanks to the sociologist Henry Lethbridge, just about the only writer in
By Vaudine England Just two serious articles were published on the subject of Eurasians in Hong Kong in the 20th century. A bold claim - and one on which I’d be delighted to be proven wrong! The first came in 1920, from the Hon. Sir Challoner Grenville Alabaster, OBE, Member of the Legislative Council. This China-born former British Consul in China was the interpreter who accompanied Ye Mingchen throughout most
By Vaudine England For a place which has so often been so eulogised for being such a marvellous meeting of East and West, the detail of the most intimate connections between east and west is surprisingly uncovered. Fiction has largely carried the burden of revealing aspects of the Eurasian existence. Richard Mason’s The World of Suzy Wong is the obvious example, and Han Suyin’s Love Is a Many-Splendoured Thing. But
By Vaudine England The Hong Kong History Project, born in January 2015, has earmarked PhD funding and support to a young student from Hong Kong, Vivian Kong Wai-yan, who will take up her researches into the pre-war British community of Hong Kong under Professor Robert Bickers in the autumn. The Project also hosted its first international workshop - a one-day gathering of a wide range of bright sparks, keen on