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China Revisited
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The Mystic Flowery Land
A Curious Imperial Maritime Customs Officer's Roamings in Hong Kong and Canton in Southern China's Plague Year
Introduction by Paul French
Charles Halcombe served for much of the 1880s and 1890s with China’s Imperial Maritime Customs Service. His career included sojourns in both Canton and Hong Kong. Halcombe long harboured dreams of becoming a journalist. Unusually he married a Chinese woman, Liang Ah Ghan, the daughter of a Chefoo...
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