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Author | : Xu Xi |
Publisher | : Penguin Specials: The Hong Kon |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780734399380 |
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"Xu Xi's body of work witnesses her turbulent love affair with her home-city of Hong Kong. In this probing memoir, she unravels her recently finalised decision to leave the city for good. She critiques a Hong Kong that has, in her eyes, lost its way. And yet, it is only out of the city's enduring presence in her life, both in the form of memory and periodic homecomings, that she has carved out a personal and literary identity. Dear Hong Kong is a profound reflection on the life of Hong Kong, personified and interrogated by one of its most lucid writers."--Provided by publisher
Author | : Xu Xi |
Publisher | : Penguin Group Australia |
Total Pages | : 117 |
Release | : 2017-07-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1760143987 |
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Xu Xi’s body of work witnesses her turbulent love affair with her home-city of Hong Kong. In this probing memoir, she unravels her recently finalised decision to leave the city for good. She critiques a Hong Kong that has, in her eyes, lost its way. And yet, it is only out of the city’s enduring presence in her life, both in the form of memory and periodic homecomings, that she has carved out a personal and literary identity. Dear Hong Kong is a profound reflection on the life of Hong Kong, personified and interrogated by one of its most lucid writers.
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 7 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Civil disobedience |
ISBN | : |
Download Dear Travelers, Welcome to Hong Kong Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"It's a zine that was delivered during the 'airport occupation' in June and July, aiming foreigners and telling them what is going on in this city."--Zine Coop description.
Author | : Vikki Law |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 56 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Asian Americans |
ISBN | : |
Download Dear Miss Cookie ... Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
American Born Chinese Law's travel diary (in the form of letters to a cat at ABC No Rio) includes pictures and reflections from her trip to Hong Kong and China. She discusses being an outsider despite her Chinese heritage and attempts at learning Cantonese, as well as the poverty that her family faced in the past.
Author | : Mark Pinsukanjana |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2017-02-15 |
Genre | : Hong Kong (China) |
ISBN | : 9780977882830 |
Download Hong Kong Yesterday Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Hong Kong Yesterday presents a singular vision of this enigmatic city by award winning photographer, Fan Ho. Black and white images capturing life in mid-century Hong Kong range from quiet voyeuristic tableaus to chaotic crowds, most focusing on the citys inhabitants. Businessmen, families, dockworkers, alleys, markets and street scenes are all rendered in a style that is simultaneously abstract and humanistic. Fan Ho was born in Shanghai in 1937; he immigrated to Hong Kong as child and passed away in 2016.
Author | : Susanna Hoe |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 341 |
Release | : 2013-10-11 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1136822569 |
Download The Taking of Hong Kong Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Relations between Britain and China have, for over 150 years, been inextricably bound up with the taking of Hong Kong Island on 26 January 1841. The man responsible, Britain's plenipotentiary Captain Charles Elliot, was recalled by his government in disgrace and has been vilified ever since by China. This book describes the taking of Hong Kong from Elliot's point of view for the first time '- through the personal letters of himself and his wife Clara '- and shows a man of intelligence, conscience and humanitarian instincts. The book gives new insights into Sino-British relations of the period. Because these are now being re-assessed both historically and for the future, revelations about Elliot's role, intentions and analysis are significant and could make an important difference to our understanding of the dynamics of these relations. On a different level, the book explores how Charles the private man, with his wife by his side, experienced events, rather than how Elliot the public figure reported them to the British government. The work is therefore of great historiographical interest.
Author | : Graham Allen |
Publisher | : Center Street |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2021-08-10 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1546091041 |
Download Dear America Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A U.S. Army veteran and rising star in the conservative movement makes the case that the United States should look to the country as it was on September 12th, 2001 for lessons about our future. On the day after the World Trade Center was attacked, Americans came together regardless of race, religion, or sexual orientation. We were united. On that day, nearly every store in the country sold out of American flags. After the events of the last eighteen months, from the Covid-19 pandemic to the constant attempts to divide us by race, Graham Allen believes that we should all look back on the events of 9/12 and remember what unites us. He believes that we do not all have to be the same, that it's okay not to agree on everything, but that we share a common history and a set of values. Just as the year 1776 serves as a reminder of our beginning, 9/12 will serve as a reminder of our present and future.
Author | : Xu Xi |
Publisher | : Hong Kong University Press |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2008-01-01 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9789622099463 |
Download Evanescent Isles Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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."
Author | : Frederick Forth |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 7 |
Release | : 1858 |
Genre | : British |
ISBN | : |
Download Letter Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
ALS. Detailed letter, perhaps written to Forth's superior, addresses the current state of affairs in Hong Kong. "Since I last wrote matters at Canton and Hong Kong have assumed so alarming an aspect that it is difficult to foresee the consequences that may follow unless Lord Elgin, brought to a sense of his duty and of the perilous position in which his shortcomings have thrown this Community will hasten here and retrieve the ground he has lost." In a postscript, Forth writes of learning of an impending raid on "the town who fired on the flag of truce ... So much for the Treaty of Peace."
Author | : Toby Little |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2016-03-24 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 1405924535 |
Download Dear World, How Are You? Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
When Toby Little was five years old, he decided to write to someone in every country in the world. With the help of his mum, Toby started handwriting and posting letters to everyone from research scientists in Antarctica to game-keepers in Chad and even the Pope. Not only did Toby achieve his goal but the world wrote back. Dear World, How Are You? is a collection of the most fascinating and heart-warming letters he sent and received. It shows that the world is only as big as your imagination and is full of potential friends, waiting to be discovered, no matter where you live.