The book you are holding contains secrets and stories about Hong Kong that have never before been published. Prepare to have your notions of this bustling Asian city butchered as you journey through c
“I can't visualise us getting out of this, but I want to TRY to believe in a future,” wrote 23-year-old Barbara on 8th December 1941, a few hours after Japan attacked Hong Kong. Her 1941-1946 diaries
Have you ever wondered about that wacky-looking fruit staring back at you in the market? Or did you want to know how to prepare a seasonal Chinese vegetable, but don't have the language or culinary sk
MichaelKohn, former editor of the MongolMessenger, is onesteppe ahead of the journalistic posse in this epic Western set inthe Far East. Kohn's memoir is an irresistible account of a landwhere falcon
Hong Kong, 1918. Tranquil compared to war-torn Europe. But on January 22nd, a running battle through the streets of Wanchai ended with five policemen dead.One of the men came from a small town in Irel
Hong Kong, 1954. The colony was not ready to hear about a Eurasian policeman having an affair with the commissioner's daughter. Simon Lee was banished to the far tip of a distant island – to Tai O, th
On July 1, 1997, the red flag of China was hoisted over Hong Kong – and the untried idea of "one country, two systems" was put into practice. Farewell, My Colony is a real-time journal of the end of a
WilliamMesny jumped ship at Shanghai in 1860 when he was just 18. Amid thechaos of foreign intrigue and civil war in 19th-century China, hebecame a smuggler, a prisoner of the Taiping rebels, a gun-ru
French artist Zabovisited Hong Kong in the 1960s, and condensed his year-long stay intoa book of cartoons which has come to be known as an emblem of theera. Life in Hong Kong's streets and trades is h
Sunset Survivors tells the stories of Hong Kong's traditional tradesmen and women through stunning imagery and candid interviews. Covering a myriad of professions that are quickly falling into obscuri
With glitzy nightclubs, saunas, karaoke lounges and brothels, Hong Kong's sex business is booming. But how do local prostitutes compete with an endless supply of girls from China? To find out, Yang sp
Japanmarched into Hong Kong on December 8, 1941. On the same day, GrahamHeywood was captured near the border while carrying out duties forthe Royal Observatory. He was transported to a militaryPrisone
