Qing dynasty China

Po Leung Kuk headquarters tour shows Hong Kong charity’s history of caring for children

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Po Leung Kuk headquarters tour shows Hong Kong charity’s history of caring for children

The building is open to visitors keen to learn more about the organisation’s long history of protecting the young and innocent – the only out-of-bounds area being the children’s residential area on the second floor. The entrance to Po Leung Kuk’s headquarters in Causeway Bay is a traditional Chinese “paifang” gate. Photo: Jonathan Wong Enter … Read more

‘A piece of China mislaid’: in Mengzi, Yunnan, charming traces of its time as treaty port

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‘A piece of China mislaid’: in Mengzi, Yunnan, charming traces of its time as treaty port

The lone foreigner stands out. The English writer Stella Benson, acquaintance of Virginia Woolf, sometime resident of Mengzi and South China Morning Post correspondent. Photo: Getty Images But in Benson’s time Mengzi was better known than it is today. Sited in the middle of an agricultural plain rimmed with mountains, 1,400 metres (4,500 feet) above … Read more