About Hong Kong

Lonely Planet Hong Kong is your passport to the most relevant, uptodate advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Ride the hairraising tram to Victoria Peak, feast on seafood at Temple Street Night Market, or hike the delightful Hong Kong Trail; all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the heart of Hong Kong an...

Eileen Chang is one of the great writers of twentiethcentury China, where she enjoys a passionate following both on the mainland and in Taiwan. At the heart of Chang's achievement is her short fiction?tales of love, longing, and the shifting and endlessly treacherous shoals of family life. Written when Chang was still in her twenties, these extrao...

A ManySplendoured Thing tells the story of a married British foreign correspondent called Mark Elliot (Ian Morrison in real life and based in Singapore where he lived with his wife and children) who falls in love with a Eurasian doctor originally from Mainland China who trained at the Royal Free Hospital Medical College in London University, only ...

The world's foremost travel writer gives readers an intimate examination of the people, politics and culture of a city with an astounding past and an even more intriguing future. 8 pages of photos, 2 maps....

This major history of Hong Kong tells the remarkable story of how a cluster of remote fishing villages grew into an icon of capitalism. The story began in 1842 with the founding of the Crown Colony after the First AngloChinese war the original 'Opium War'. As premier power in Europe and an expansionist empire, Britain first created in Hong Kong ...

The Umbrella Movement put Hong Kong on the world map and elevated this docile, moneyminded Asian island to a model for prodemocracy campaigns across the globe. Umbrellas in Bloom is the first book available in English to chronicle this historymaking event, written by a bestselling author and columnist based on his firsthand experience at the mai...

An alternate cover for this ISBN can be found here.The setting is Hong Kong, 1963. The action spans scarcely more than a week, but these are the days of high adventure: from kidnapping and murder to financial doubledealing and natural catastrophes fire, flood, and landslide. Yet they are days filled as well with all the mystery and romance of H...

Martin Booth died in February 2004, shortly after finishing the book that would be his epitaph this wonderfully remembered, beautifully told memoir of a childhood lived to the full in a farflung outpost of the British Empire...An inquisitive sevenyearold, Martin Booth found himself with the whole of Hong Kong at his feet when his father was po...