The Foreign Correspondents’ Club (FCC) is a well-known gathering spot in Hong Kong. It has a surprisingly tumultuous history. Founded in Japanese-occupied China in 1941, the Club’s first base was in Chongqing (Chungking), a city controlled by Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek. As the Chinese civil war intensified, the club moved with the action, first to Nanjing, then to Shanghai. It moved to Hong Kong in 1949.

A photo exhibition at the FCC throughout April uses wartime photographs taken by American reporter Mel Jacoby to illustrate those dangerous first years of the Club, then known as the Press Hostel. Please come and see it if you are in Hong Kong this month. These photos of daily life amid conflict remained unseen until they were published for the first time last year. The exhibition is on the walls of the Main Bar, on the ground floor at 2 Lower Albert Road in Central.

Click on the images below to get a preview of some of the photographs on display. The exhibition runs until April 30.