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Roving Through Southern China: An American's Explorations of Hong Kong, Macao and Canton in the Early 1920s

Roving Through Southern China: An American's Explorations of Hong Kong, Macao and Canton in the Early 1920s

Franck, Harry A.
French, Paul
French, Paul

Paperback

Series: China Revisited

Travel WritingGeneral World History

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ISBN10: 9887674834
ISBN13: 9789887674832
Publisher: Blacksmith Books
Published: Oct 14 2024
Pages: 120
Weight: 0.20
Height: 0.41 Width: 4.31 Depth: 7.11
Language: English
In the 1920s the American travel writer Harry A Franck was known to readers as the Prince of Vagabonds. His wanderings were family affairs and he arrived in Southern China in 1923 with his wife, their two young children and his mother. Franck always claimed that his travel plans were random, subject to chance encounters and whatever caught his eye. He arrives in a Hong Kong which is building modern department stores and large houses while labourers sleep on straw mats beside the harbor. In Macao he visits temples, ancient forts and, of course, casinos. And then to Canton (Guangzhou), a city in flux where new buildings are transforming the waterfront, the ancient city walls are being demolished, and the traditional rookeries of small lanes are being replaced by wide asphalt roads as the city rapidly modernises. Franck also provides us with a highly detailed description of Shamian Island a year after the tumultuous strikes and boycotts that meant naval gunboats and barbed wire protected the small foreign enclave.

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