Product Description J. D. Vaughan, a Victorian Englishman who served as a Colonial Officer in the Straits Settlements, has left behind a rare and fascinating account of various aspects of the Chinese way of life a hundred years ago. Review `His contribution to our knowledge of the mid-nineteenth century Chinese communities in the Straits, based as it is on observation and a measure of perspicacity, cannot be dismissed.'Asian Affairs About the Author Vaughan was a colonial officer in the Straits Settlements in the 19th century.