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The Slightest Chance

Paul Letters

• Paperback | Engels
• In war, you can pretend to be someone you're not. Yet, in war, people find out who you really are. Hong Kong, 1941. Anglo-Australian civil servant Dom... Lees meer

Destination Shanghai

Paul French

• Paperback | Engels
• For the privileged a cosmopolitan pleasure ground; For the desperate a port of last resort. A pot of gold at the end of an Oriental rainbow; A thick s... Lees meer

Spatial Cemetery

HK Urbex

• Paperback | Engels
• The book you are holding contains secrets and stories about Hong Kong that have never before been published. Prepare to have your preconceived notions... Lees meer

Great Leaps

Colin Thomas Flahive

• Paperback | Engels
• In Great Leaps, Colin Flahive explores China's rural-urban migration against the backdrop of his own transition from Colorado to southwest China. Ther... Lees meer

Hong Kong on the Brink

Syd Goldsmith

• Paperback | Engels
• Syd Goldsmith's first taste of China's Cultural Revolution is blood on his tongue. It's 1967. Hong Kong is simmering, plagued by communist-led riots a... Lees meer

The Chakrata Incident

Neville Sarony

• Paperback | Engels
• High-flying Gurkha officer Max Devlin is posted to a unique unit of the 22s - India's Special Frontier Force - composed of Tibetan men and women, to t... Lees meer

Guildworks

• Paperback | Engels
• With its slick cover, solid editing, and often compelling work, Guildworks: Writings by the West Side Writers Guild bears few signs of self-publicatio... Lees meer

The Peak

Richard J Garrett

• Hardcover | Engels | Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Studies
• The Peak is Hong Kong's top residential district, where property prices are as high as the altitude. How did it become an exclusive enclave in the bus... Lees meer

Chinese Gods

Jonathan Chamberlain

• Paperback | Engels
• Chinese gods: Who are they? Where did they come from? And what do they do? Chinese folk religion is the underlying belief system of more than a billio... Lees meer

The Taste of Old Hong Kong

Fred Schneiter

• Paperback | Engels
• Reminiscences and recipes of favorite international dishes from households, fancy restaurants and back lanes which you can enjoy today in Hong Kong, t... Lees meer

Chung Ying Street

Lau Dr Chi-Pang

• Paperback | Engels
• When colonial mandarins expanded the borders of Hong Kong in 1898, they cared little that the new frontier cut straight through the middle of a small ... Lees meer

Lost Hong Kong

Peter Waller

• Paperback | Engels | Unique Archives
• The story of Hong Kong is one of almost constant change. From a sleepy fishing community, Hong Kong - now a Special Administrative Region following it... Lees meer

The Kowloon English Club

Stephen Griffiths

• Paperback | Engels
• Asia, 1996. What do you do when you have failed to find the meaning of life in India, your money has run out, your girlfriend has gone, and prospects ... Lees meer

Sketches of the Southside

Lorette E Roberts

• Hardcover | Engels
• Hong Kong's Southside - the glimmering southern shore of the main island - is a weekend paradise of restaurants, markets and beaches. But Lorette has ... Lees meer

The Tramways of Hong Kong

Peter Waller

• Paperback | Engels | Unique Archives
• For more than a century, trams have plied their trade along the northern coast of Hong Kong Island. During that time, they have witnessed the transfor... Lees meer

Kitchen Tiles

Feng Chi-Shun

• Paperback | Engels
• The Cantonese call anyone lecherous, and anything salacious, harm sup--literally salty and wet. And the code word for all things harm sup is "kitchen ... Lees meer

Sunset Survivors

Lindsay Varty

• Hardcover | Engels
• Sunset Survivors tells the stories of Hong Kong's traditional tradesmen and women through stunning imagery and candid interviews. Covering a myriad of... Lees meer

Hong Kong Confidential

David T K Wong

• Paperback | Engels
• A former senior Chinese Administrative Officer has at long last lifted another corner of the veil of half-truths which have shrouded many of the decis... Lees meer

Kowloon

Nicole Chabot

• Paperback | Engels
• What do "Nine dragons city" and "Mandarin's lake" have in common with "Wong Tai Sin", the name of a Taoist deity? They're all districts in Kowloon. Th... Lees meer

The Dictionary of the Asian Language

Todd Crowell

• Paperback | Engels
• There is no single Asian language. But plenty of vogue words from this booming continent are entering English. Did you know there is a flower named af... Lees meer

Welly the Wild Boar

Lindsay Varty

• Paperback | Engels
• Welly the wild boar loves nothing better than eating fluffy egg puffs! He roams his home city of Hong Kong in search of his favourite snack, but he fi... Lees meer

It Won't Be Long Now

Graham Heywood

• Paperback | Engels
• Japan marched into the British colony of Hong Kong at the outbreak of the Pacific War on December 8, 1941. On the same day, Graham Heywood was capture... Lees meer

Sketches of Sai Kung

Lorette E Roberts

• Hardcover | Engels
• The Sai Kung Peninsula is Hong Kong's back garden - a place where people go to swim, hike, eat seafood, and otherwise escape the city. But besides the... Lees meer

Drawing on the Inside

Fiona Hawthorne

• Hardcover | Engels
• Imagine an illegally built mini-city formed of multiple 12-storey blocks, taking up only the area of a sports stadium but home to 60,000 people. What ... Lees meer