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City at the End of Time: Poems by Leung Ping-Kwan (Echoes: Classics of Hong Kong Culture and History)

March 25, 2015

Written by Leung Ping-kwan in the 1980s and 1990s, this volume of poetry evokes the complexity of Hong Kong city life in the critical moments preceding the 1997 handover. The poet muses upon the problems of cultural identity and the passing of time, and explores the relationship between poetry and other genres and media within […]
Being Eurasian: Memories Across Racial Divides

March 25, 2015

This book is a description and analysis of the lives of three famous Hong Kong Eurasian memoirists, Joyce Symons, Irene Cheng and Jean Gittins, and explores their very different ways of constructing and looking at their own ethnic identity. Sale Price:$21.21 9622096719
Hong Kong

March 25, 2015

In its last days under British rule, the Crown Colony of Hong Kong is the world’s most exciting city, at once fascinating and exasperating, a tangle of contradictions. It is a dazzling amalgam of conspicuous consumption and primitive poverty, the most architecturally incongruous yet undeniably beautiful urban panorama of all. World-renowned travel writer Jan Morris […]
Southern District Officer Reports: Islands and Villages in Rural Hong Kong, 1910-60 (Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Studies Series)

March 25, 2015

This is a collection of administrative dispatches from the 1910s through the early 1960s which illuminate not only rural life in Hong Kong but also Hong Kong government policies during the post-World War II period. The authors of the reports include such notable figures as Eric Hamilton, Walter Schofield, S. H. Peplow, Paul Tsui, Austin […]
It Was Like This

March 25, 2015

Book by Redwood, Mabel Winifred Sale Price:$29.99 0753198096
A Borrowed Place: The History of Hong Kong

March 25, 2015

A sweeping history of Hong Kong, Britain’s last colony, documents court intrigues of London and Peking, the heyday of the British Empire, economic development, its role as a refuge from mainland Chinese communism, and the 1997 return to Chinese sovereignty. Sale Price:$7.99 1568360029
City at the End of Time: Poems by Leung Ping-Kwan (Echoes: Classics of Hong Kong Culture and History)

March 25, 2015

Written by Leung Ping-kwan in the 1980s and 1990s, this volume of poetry evokes the complexity of Hong Kong city life in the critical moments preceding the 1997 handover. The poet muses upon the problems of cultural identity and the passing of time, and explores the relationship between poetry and other genres and media within […]
Being Eurasian: Memories Across Racial Divides

March 25, 2015

This book is a description and analysis of the lives of three famous Hong Kong Eurasian memoirists, Joyce Symons, Irene Cheng and Jean Gittins, and explores their very different ways of constructing and looking at their own ethnic identity. Sale Price:$21.21 9622096719
Hong Kong

March 25, 2015

In its last days under British rule, the Crown Colony of Hong Kong is the world’s most exciting city, at once fascinating and exasperating, a tangle of contradictions. It is a dazzling amalgam of conspicuous consumption and primitive poverty, the most architecturally incongruous yet undeniably beautiful urban panorama of all. World-renowned travel writer Jan Morris […]
Southern District Officer Reports: Islands and Villages in Rural Hong Kong, 1910-60 (Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Studies Series)

March 25, 2015

This is a collection of administrative dispatches from the 1910s through the early 1960s which illuminate not only rural life in Hong Kong but also Hong Kong government policies during the post-World War II period. The authors of the reports include such notable figures as Eric Hamilton, Walter Schofield, S. H. Peplow, Paul Tsui, Austin […]

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