Collected for the first time in a single volume are these true and often comic stories of Hong Kong, Canton and Macao.
Seventy visitors from around the world give at first hand, vivid accounts of their experiences-of high society at Government House and low life in Canton gaols, of spies in Hong Kong and pirates on buccaneering junks, of typhoons, burglars and Eastern magic, of gambling, opium and slavery.
Most revealing of all, they write about their encounters with the people. The misunderstandings between …
