Cantoblanca: A Hong Kong Romance

Michael Blaine is an American news photographer who covered many of the world's conflicts, notably in the Mideast, Central America and Southeast Asia. He is currently assigned to photograph demonstrations in Hong Kong, but falls in love with an elusive Hong Kong Chinese girl and finds himself spending more energy trying to understand cross-cultural relationships than photographing the local scene. But the novel is more than a romance. It offers readers a complete Hong Kong experience based on the author's 30-year background living in Hong Kong from eating Dim Sum, learning Mahjong to picking out seafood in the countryside markets as well as street-by-street local knowledge.