John Stericker – A Tear for the Dragon, 1958

Posted: March 29th, 2022 | No Comments »

A memoir, wittily written, that I hadn’t come across before. Stericker’s A Tear for the Dragon started with the Englishman’s first journey to China in the mid-1930s via the Trans-Siberian Railway. Stericker ended up a Stanley prisoner-of-war camp internee ion Hong Kong.

No photos sadly, though Stericker, with his wife Veronica, did earlier publish Hong Kong: In Picture and Story (1953) and a confectionery of images and notes called a Hong Kong Gift Book (1954).

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