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- View from the Balcony: Tale of Two Cultures and Two Countries - Part III February 2011
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- Reflections on a Recent Visit to Xinjiang August 2010
- Reflections on a Recent Visit to Shanghai's World Expo June 2010
- Subtle Political Maneuvering Using U.S. Census April 2010
- Review of Martin Rees' Book "Just Six Numbers: The Deep Forces That Shape the Universe" January 2010
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- Dynamics of Chinese-American Churches in the U.S. October 2008
- How NOT to Provide Customer Service August 2008
- Cultural Reversal June 2008
- Government Spending and America's Future April 2008
- Executive Order 11246: Implications for Asian Americans February 2008
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- Reflections on Childhood School Discipline October 2007
- Additional Analysis of Racial Group Staff Disparities in NJ School Districts August 2007
- Escaping from No Man’s Land and Other True Events in the WWII Era June 2007
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I really like the new format of your website. However, I do miss the colorful top banner of your old website. Can you bring the old banner back?
Henry, thanks for your comment, which I completely agree with. Yes, I do plan to include the colorful banner photos as in my previous design. But I didn’t have time to include them for this release. I will include them in my next release.
Do you know anything about Hong Kong in 1864? Did some disease spread through the colony then? I was walking around Stanley Military Cemetery recently and there were a lot of gravestones of young children dated 1864 and some adults too. I have googled the date but no luck. By the way, I posted a comment recently on the British Miliatry Hospital, Bowen Road, which you mention in your article on HK and the Japanese invasion. Thought I would let you know the name of the hospital. I have worked opposite it for many years!
Maureen Doctrove
Maureen,
Thanks for your two comments. With respect to your question about anything special about Hong Kong in 1864 that might have caused more deaths of young children and even adults around 1864, I do not know the answer. However, I would like to offer the following two comments:
1. The Second Opium War ended in 1860. Perhaps the children who were born of parents on opium could have been born not as healthy as other children. Adults who were on opium could also have died at an earlier age. However, the people who were buried at the Stanley Military Cemetery most likely were British, and not Chinese.
2. I found the following website (http://archives.catholic.org.hk/Statistic/DHK.htm) while doing a search on “Hong Kong in 1864.” It contains some statistics on deaths in Hong Kong from 1864 to 1872, that seemed to show that deaths for “Protestant Non-Residents” in 1864 and 1865 were 2-3 times larger than subsequent years. Were the names on the gravestones mostly non-Chinese names?
Perhaps readers of this website could shed some light on your question.
Don