Hong Kong Heritage

Botanical artist Mark Isaac-Williams talks to me about his parents Leonard and Margery, who came to Shanghai in the late 1930s when Leonard joined the Chinese Maritime Customs. He was awarded a bravery medal after an altercation with smugglers on the Y...

When career foreign office diplomat Sir Edward Youde became Hong Kong governor in May 1982, he had already done four tours in China, including as British ambassador in Beijing, where he tried to negotiate the release of HMS Amethyst.  A great deal of ...

Author Paul French goes back 100 years to the heady start of modernism - where architects, musicians, artists and writers embraced a new era of "talking pictures", radio, jazz and skyscrapers. Here in Hong Kong, we were architecturally a bit behind th...