684 episodes
Hong Kong Heritage RTHK.HK
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- Society & Culture
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4.2 • 11 Ratings
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Every week, journalist, broadcaster and local historian, Annemarie Evans, explores Hong Kong, digging up many (often forgotten or unknown) aspects of our cultural, architectural, and artistic heritage.
Listen live via Radio 3's homepage https://www.rthk.hk/radio/radio3
Saturdays 7.30am - 8.00am (HKT) - first broadcast
Sundays 6.15pm - 6.45pm (HKT) - repeat broadcast
Podcast available weekly after the first broadcast.
If you would like to share your story or some Hong Kong cultural history with us, please email hkhradio3@gmail.com
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Celebrating the Arrival of Sir Catchick Paul Chater in 1860
In a specially extended Hong Kong Heritage Annemarie talks with history researcher Liz Chater and antiquarian Jonathan Wattis about Sir Catchick Paul Chater, the Armenian teenager who arrived in Hong Kong from Calcutta on April 1 1864. He was a pionee...
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Sir Shouson Chow
Shouson Chow was educated in the US - one of a group of Chinese boys sent to America after the Second Opium War in 1860. He would go on to serve the Qing Dynasty in maritime customs and railways before returning to Hong Kong in 1911. He was director o...
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Sir Cecil Clementi
Sir Cecil Clementi was a superb linguist and academic and governor of Hong Kong from 1925 to 1930, a tumultuous time of big strikes and unrest. Clementi empathized with the Chinese but was also conservative who believed in the British Empire. China a...