Author: Joanne O'CallaghanPublisher:
ISBN: 9789881913418
Category : Hong Kong
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Author: Xi, Xi
Author: Mark J. Roberts
Author: Isabel CrombieCity Between Worlds
Author: Leo Ou-fan LeePublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674046897
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
Hong Kong is perched on the fault line between China and the West, a Special Administrative Region of the PRC. Leo Ou-fan Lee offers an insiderÕs view of Hong Kong, capturing the history and culture that make his densely packed home city so different from its generic neighbors. The search for an indigenous Hong Kong takes Lee to the wet markets and corner bookshops of congested Mong Kok, remote fishing villages and mountainside temples, teahouses and noodle stalls, Cantonese opera and Cantopop. But he also finds the ÒrealÓ Hong Kong in a maze of interconnected shopping malls, a jungle of high-rise residential towers, and the neon glow of Chinese-owned skyscrapers in the Central Business District, where land development, global trade, capital accumulation, consumerism, and free-market competition trump every valueÑexcept family. Lee illuminates the relationship between Hong KongÕs geography and its colonial experience, revisiting colonial life on the secluded Peak, in the opium-filled godowns along the harborfront, and in crowded, plague-infested tenements. He examines, with a criticÕs eye, the ÒHong Kong storyÓ in film and fiction: romance in the bars and brothels of Wan Chai, crime in the walled city of Kowloon, ennui on the eve of the 1997 handover. Whether viewed from Tsing Yi Bridge or the deck of the Star Ferry, from Victoria Peak or Lion Rock, Hong Kong sparkles here in all its multifaceted complexity, a city forever between worlds.
Author: Isabel Crombie
Author: Donna BaileyMy True Story in Hong Kong
Author: Hussein SultaniPublisher: Dorrance Publishing
ISBN: 1434989356
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Hussein Ally Sultani is on his way to China to attend a Traditional Medical Hospital to cure his leg. He is fully and legally equipped with a valid passport, visa, and a return ticket. But he finds himself in the hands of immigration officers who decide to put him in detention for no reason and with no explanation.Hussein Ally Sultani faces flogging and a lot of torture while at Hong Kong International Airport.His experience forced him to write this book. He wants the reader to be aware that home is always best.
Author: Sarah GarnerEvanescent Isles
Author: Xu XiPublisher: Hong Kong University Press
ISBN: 9789622099463
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
An unusual book of quirky essays, some deeply personal. Xu Xi writes from within, of Hong Kong's vanishing culture and sensibility as it transforms itself into a space that is 21st Century China. She zooms in on her own life in the city: on family, friends and a professional history as both business executive and author, on moments that offer wry observations of the shifting world around her. She casts her eye on films, pop stars, public transportation, and muses on the political, without losing sight of the distinctly apolitical culture that evolved through a history as the former British colony and Chinese "Special Administrative Region" after the 1997 "handover."
