Melville Jacoby came to Guangdong in 1936 - it was supposed to be just for a year. But the US student became intensely interested in China and was aware that war loomed. So he returned. US journalist Bill Lascher inherited Jacoby's photos, journals and...
May 10, 2024
28 min
Anita Mui died 20 years ago but her music and movies are popular with a new generation. An exhibition at Hong Kong Heritage Museum celebrates Mui's life - her amazing stage costumes, a longtime collaboration with fashion designer Eddy Lau; her awards ...
May 3, 2024
26 min
Richard Garrett was involved in the planning of the new town of Sha Tin among other projects - but after he retired he enjoyed writing about weaponry and The Peak. In 2010, he went with Annermarie to the cannons of Macau to talk about one-armed governo...
Apr 26, 2024
28 min
In a specially extended Hong Kong Heritage Annemarie talks with history researcher Liz Chater and antiquarian Jonathan Wattis about Sir Catchick Paul Chater, the Armenian teenager who arrived in Hong Kong from Calcutta on April 1 1864. He was a pionee...
Mar 29, 2024
48 min
Shouson Chow was educated in the US - one of a group of Chinese boys sent to America after the Second Opium War in 1860. He would go on to serve the Qing Dynasty in maritime customs and railways before returning to Hong Kong in 1911. He was director o...
Mar 22, 2024
28 min
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