Daunt Books, Marylebone High Street….

Harvesting lotus at the Forbidden City…..

BTW: paperback, ebook and audiobook of Her Lotus Year: China, The Roaring Twenties and the Making of Wallis Simpson is now on Kobo….

As people often ask where to get Midnight in Peking in China (& I rarely know!) - it seems Shanghai Foreign Languages Bookstore on Fuzhou Lu has stock….

Pedder’s Wharf was at the northern end of Pedder Street along the original waterfront (The Praya) in Victoria, Hong Kong. It wxiated drom the 1840s to 1890s names after Lieutenant William Pedder, the first Harbour Master of Hong Kong and first lieutenant of the iron warship Nemesis.

A panorama of Victoria Harbour, Hong Kong Island, here dubbed the “English Quarter”, c.late 19th century.

My thanks to Tina Kanagaratnam of Historic Shanghai who found herself in Hodges Figgis, Ireland’s oldest bookshop, on Dublin’s Dawson Street….and spotted the Last Emperor and Wallis on display….

The fountain at the Hong Kong Botanic Gardens which stood in the gardens from 1868 until the early 1930s.

The marble stupa (pagoda) at the West Yellow Temple (Xihuang Temple, Peking, 1650 by Shunzhi in memory of the 5th Dalai Lama, Ngawang Lobsang Gyatso. This picture c.1910. French label at the bottom reads "Vue d'ensemble de la pagode du Temple jaune" (Overview of the Yellow Temple pagoda).

The Last Emperor of China: Twilight of the Forbidden City (Elliot & Thompson) has arrived in Australia!! Spotted in the wild here at Gleebooks in Sydney….

Another Trump win

A Zoom for anyone who might be interested - October 12 UK time…

WWII American Air Force silk cloth Asia Escape Maps: - Vladivostok, first edition, 1944 - Keijo (Seoul), second edition, 1943 - French Indochina & Central China, second edition, 1943