https://www.scmp.com/rss/513396/feed en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com The first Brazilian circumnavigation of the globe included stops in Hong Kong and Macau in 1880 and led to the delegation’s discovery of a whole new world, as recounted in this excerpt from a new book about the voyage: On the afternoon of May 28, 1880, the Vital de Oliveira arrived in Hong Kong. For a long time, the Brazilian corvette’s crew did nothing but answer the salutes of warships from various parts of the world that were in port. According to the Vital de Oliveira’s logbook, “there were... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/3189355/how-19th-century-hong-kong-and-chinese-people?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/3189355/how-19th-century-hong-kong-and-chinese-people?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 18 Aug 2022 20:15:14 +0000