https://www.scmp.com/rss/506085/feed en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com In the mid-1990s, I began to travel frequently from Hong Kong to the Chinese mainland on business. In Tianjin in 1996, I managed to locate the house in which my father lived until he was six, before the family relocated to Hankou. (My grandfather worked for the Asiatic Petroleum Company [North China], one of two subsidiaries of the Royal Dutch Shell group operating in China at the time.) In December 1997, armed with one of my father’s photo­graphs, taken around 1930, I was able to locate the... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/3086360/when-west-went-east-photos-chinas-treaty-ports?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/3086360/when-west-went-east-photos-chinas-treaty-ports?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 30 May 2020 06:30:16 +0000