The Hong Kong Heritage Podcast with Paul French on Harry Franck’s Roving Through Southern China (China Revisited Books #4)

Posted: February 28th, 2024 | No Comments »

The ”Hong Kong Heritage” podcast (click here) with Annemarie Evans: Best-selling author Paul French tells of vagabonding Harry A. Franck in southern China.

Harry A. Franck was an American traveller and writer – vagabonding, roving and roaming his way across large chunks of the world. Best-selling author Paul French joins me to talk about Franck’s book “Roving Through Southern China” – which was published in 1925 – and tells of Hong Kong in the immediate aftermath of the tumultuous Seamen’s Strike of 1922; of Macau and the Portuguese military unrest; and on to Canton – where new roads, housing, shops and businesses reflect a modernizing world.

Paul French has annotated and abridged four books by writers and missionaries to southern China from the 1880s to 1920s in a collection called “China Revisited” published by Blacksmith Books

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