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Ian Gill tells his multigenerational family story at FCC Club Lunch in Hong Kong: Thursday March 6

Pete @ Blacksmith2025-03-05T14:05:55+08:00March 5th, 2025|authors, events, hong kong|0 Comments

Ian Gill’s first visit to Hong Kong in 1975 takes an unexpected turn when he meets his Chinese mother Billie’s friends, colleagues and fellow ex-prisoners of war, lifting the veil on a tumultuous past in Hong Kong and Shanghai. He moves to Asia and unravels her intriguing journey: from controversial adoption by an English postmaster in Changsha to popular radio [...]

Book talk in Hong Kong: Searching for Billie, Tracing Surprising Family Roots in China

Taking place on Tuesday March 4 at the Royal Geographical Society in Hong Kong. Author Ian Gill talks about the main characters of his Anglo-Chinese family, who lived in China and Hong Kong from the mid-19th century until modern times. The story starts when his great-grandmother married Ted Newman, a Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company steward, in Hong Kong [...]