Constance Gordon-Cumming – Hong Kong’s Catastrophic 1878 Christmas Day Fire – an RTHK3 Audio

As broadcast on RTHK3 on Christmas Day 2023, Paul French reads an eyewitness account of the biggest fire Hong Kong has ever seen, which destroyed Mid-Levels 145 years ago to that day. This is an excerpt from his edition of Wanderings in China: Hong Kong and Canton, Christmas and New Year, 1878/1879 by Constance Gordon-Cumming, published by Blacksmith Books.

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