KIFIS
25th Jan 2001, 08:43
During the early part of the last century the expatriate community living in the treaty ports and concessional areas of China were kept informed of what was going on around them by the highly respected and well written English newspaper the “ North China Daily News “ ( published in Shanghai and considered the “ Times” of China. )The edition for 27th October 1928 featured a cleverly drawn cartoon that shows an Englishman (from his clothes) going on home leave. He is leaning on the railing of a large ship with a pensive and far away look on his face. His thoughts are drawn as a beautiful Chinese girl dressed in a cheongsam and holding a fan. Beneath is written the words
“ One of the sad ironies of the expatriates’ life is that home is not home at all “.
Here we are seventy three years on and surrounded by change but the lot of the committed expatriate is much the same.
KIFIS
“ One of the sad ironies of the expatriates’ life is that home is not home at all “.
Here we are seventy three years on and surrounded by change but the lot of the committed expatriate is much the same.
KIFIS