A young Englishman in Victorian Hong Kong the diaries of Chaloner Alabaster, 1855-1856

'In August 1855, sixteen-year-old Chaloner Alabaster left England for Hong Kong, to take up a position as a student interpreter in the China Consular Service. He would stay for almost forty years, climbing the rungs of the service and eventually becoming consul-general of Canton. When he retire...

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