Hong Kong Confidential ― Life As a Subversive

Former senior Administrative Officer David T. K. Wong has produced a cerebral and revelatory insider memoir of his experiences in the upper reaches of the Hong Kong colonial administration during the 1970s. He struggled with a three-horned dilemma: how to serve the people of Hong Kong, who paid his salary; the wider Chinese nation, from which he was culturally and emotionally inseparable; and the demands of the British crown, to which he had sworn his allegiance.

At the ripe old age of 89, David T. K. Wong is publicly exposing for the first time some of the shadier insider dealings in the Hong Kong colonial administration during the long governorship of Sir Murray MacLehose.

He is currently working on the fourth volume of his family memoirs, dealing with the goings-on in the Hong Kong commercial sector during the 1980s when he was the managing director of Li and Fung, an international trading company.

He is the founder of the annual David T. K. Wong Fellowship in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia in the UK. He is now resident in Malaysia.