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John Larrysson's Column : Chapter 9 of The Little House in the Big Woods

【明報專訊】The world that we live in has changed considerably over the last one hundred and fifty years. Imagine being where you are now, but one hundred and fifty years ago. (OK, you would be falling from a high floor to the ground, but imagine that you started on the ground floor.) The Opium War had recently finished and Kowloon has become British up to Boundary Street. There are more farmer's fields than tall buildings. That was Hong Kong one hundred and fifty years ago. What was life like in America at that time?

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