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Aleko Lilius, South China Pirates & Me…on RTHK3

Posted: September 26th, 2020 | No Comments »

Gangsters….pirates…the 1930s was a wild time all over China. This weekend on RTHK3’s show Hong Kong Heritage i’m talking about Aleko Lilius, who came to HK from Finland in the late 1920s and wrote the rip roaring 1931 “travelogue” “I Sailed With Chinese Pirates” – a great read but just how much of it was true? Click here to listen…



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