This section is not an attempt at a sketch of a history of Hong Kong's well known cinema industry, which is both historically important and important at the present time.
Films can be useful as guides to the manners and mores of an earlier day, and on that basis here are clips from three films about post - WW2 Hong Kong, set in 1949, 1956 and 1988. <Read more ...>
Sean Olson asks why his Great-grandfather John Olson doesn't appear in the Juror Lists. After all he lived in Hong Kong for close to sixty years, from appx 1860 til 1918.
First I thought British nationality may have been the issue, but the lists contain many European names that don't look as though they're British.
Did a potential juror's trade make any difference? Olson worked in and owned various pubs and taverns. Maybe that wasn't considered a suitable trade to be a juror? <Read more ...>
Don Ady writes in, asking if anyone knows if his father had any connections with the BAAG [The wartime "British Army Aid Group", described here]:
It occurs to me now that my father might have had or at least had ought to have had some BAAG contacts. You probably could not verify that, but I would be delighted to have any such info if you have it. <Read more ...>
When the UN Embargo on trade with China was announced, in 1950, the entrepot trade dried away to a covert trickle. It never actually stopped, because the British hongs could not see the point of the embargo, and ignored it to the best of their ability. The Hong Kong Government complied with the letter, not the spirit, of the embargo, and local firms who did not have political objections to dealing with the Communists (many did) carried on doing so. <Read more ...>
Just found this very intresting site. I lived in HK in the early 60's my dad being stationed there till about 1965 with the Royal Engineers. We lived in Jubilee Buildings and i would be intrested to hear from other 'army brats' who lived there also <Read more ...>
