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Vaudine England
Vaudine England
SCMP Contributor
Vaudine England was a journalist for three decades in South East Asia and Hong Kong for the BBC, Reuters, the Far Eastern Economic Review and several London newspapers. Now based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, she is completing a PhD in Asian history at Leiden University, is a research associate with the Hong Kong History Project at Bristol University.

For a foreigner to have a mistress was common in 19th century Hong Kong, and many of these relationships played a part in moulding the city’s personality, an excerpt from Vaudine England’s latest book reveals.

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