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Books > Arts & Architecture > Antiques & collectables > Ceramics & glass
Brian McElney was born in Hong Kong in the early 1930s, and for
more than two decades was one of the territory's top lawyers. But
in his spare time, he also put together one of the most
comprehensive collections of East Asian antiques in the world, many
of them spotted by him amongst the knick-knacks on Hollywood Road
and Cat Street. His memoir, Collecting China, starts at the height
of the Cultural Revolution in the mid-1960s, when it was just not
known whether the Red Guards would storm over the border and start
smashing up porcelain on the Mid-Levels, and then tells tales
ranging from the Hong Kong of the 1930s through to the
establishment by Brian of what is today the only museum
specialising in Chinese antiquities in the United Kingdom - the
Museum of East Asian Art in Bath.
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