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A many-splendored thing

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Description: Mark Elliot, a married British foreign correspondent in Hong Kong, falls in love with a Eurasian doctor originally from Mainland China, only to encounter prejudice from her family and from Hong Kong society. On the surface it is a love story but there is a historical perspective relating to China, Hong Kong, and the peoples and societies that populated the island. It is also strongly autobiographical.--From publisher description.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: 1953
Call number: 655103
Creator: Han, Suyin (1917-2012)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Roger S. Hong, June 2006. From the Hong family library.

Hong Kong. Gardens Department [Bashall, Cynthia G. and Tang, Hune-cheung], (1948-1959)

Manuscripts

Included: A Trip to See Camellia Granthamiana by Cynthia G. Bashall - Hong Kong; New Species from Hong Kong by Hune-cheung Tang and Ralph Peer; and South China Photo-Process Printing Co., Ltd. See also: Dean, Ralph E.

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Record of a voyage to the Orient in 1918

Manuscripts

Kinney's journal starts the day he leaves California and ends the day he gets back four months later. In it, he includes details about his work on board the ship, the daily inspections, the conditions on the ocean, the meals he has, and the various stops along the route including: Hawaii, Japan, China, the Philippines, and Hong Kong. Kinney gives detailed descriptions of Honolulu, Hawaii; Tokyo and Kobe, Japan; Shanghai, China; Manila, Philippines; and Hong Kong. The typed journal includes photocopies of pages from Kinney's original diary, photographs, maps, advertisements, menus, passenger lists, and various other things he collected during his voyage.

mssHM 75688

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Dean, Ralph E., (1952-1959)

Manuscripts

Hong Kong. Gardens Department Included: A New Camellias From Hong Kong by Ralph Dean

mssPeer

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Ogden's Guinea Gold photographic cigarette cards

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A group of ten small photographs related to China and Japan that were issued as cigarette cards inside packets of Ogden's Guinea Gold cigarettes. Images depict: a group of Chinese Boxers; "Lin Ta Jen," a supporter of the Boxers; Chinese Christians; "A Mandarin and his family"; the Taku Forts in China; the Empress Dowager Cixi; Mutsuhito, Emperor of Japan; and the British Navy in Hong Kong harbor. The cards have printed captions.

photPF 26012

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Photograph album of a British expatriate in China

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An album of 210 photographs of China taken sometime after the end of World War I, by an unidentified British expatriate likely working in Shanghai, China. Subjects include Shanghai, Hong Kong, Huangpu River, local residents, Westerners, naval and civil ships, coastal villages, Chinese architecture, and historical landmarks. There is no writing in the album, though one photograph of buildings along a waterfront has "my office" in pencil, with an arrow to a building. Many of the snapshots are of local people: children, fishermen, weavers, a shoe cobbler, workers with building materials, and others.

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Colorado Street Bridge, Pasadena. 1914

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A panoramic view of the Colorado Street Bridge. The Arroyo Seco, the area below the bridge, is less heavily wooded and populated than it would become in later years, but there are a few small houses there.

photCL 402 (40045)

A many-splendored thing

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