A Young Englishman in Victorian Hong Kong: The Diaries of Chaloner Alabaster, 1855-1856 by Benjamin Penny
A Young Englishman in Victorian Hong Kong: The Diaries of Chaloner Alabaster, 1855-1856
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Benjamin Penny
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A Young Englishman in Victorian Hong Kong: The Diaries of Chaloner Alabaster, 1855-1856

Benjamin Penny

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'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 b...

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