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A Borrowed Place

A Borrowed Place
Author: Frank Welsh
Publisher: Kodansha
Total Pages: 668
Release: 1993
Genre: History
ISBN:

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About the history of Hong Kong from ancient times until 1993.


Hong Kong: Borrowed Place, Borrowed Time

Hong Kong: Borrowed Place, Borrowed Time
Author: Richard Hughes
Publisher: Deutsch
Total Pages: 184
Release: 1968
Genre: History
ISBN:

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Rev. ed. published 1976 under title: Borrowed place, borrowed time. Bibliography: p. [173].


The Borrowed

The Borrowed
Author: Chan Ho-Kei
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Total Pages: 490
Release: 2017-01-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0802189822

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A legendary detective uncovers Hong Kong’s darkest crimes: “An ambitious narrative brilliantly executed . . . What an achievement!” (John Burdett, author of Bangkok 8). From award-winning author Chan Ho-kei, The Borrowed tells the story of Kwan Chun-dok, a detective who’s worked in Hong Kong fifty years. Across six decades of Hong Kong’s volatile history, the narrative follows Kwan through the Leftist Riot of 1967, when a bombing plot threatens many lives; the conflict between the HK Police and ICAC (Independent Commission Against Corruption) in 1977; the Tiananmen Square Massacre in 1989; the Handover in 1997; and the present day of 2013, when Kwan is called on to solve his final case, the murder of a local billionaire, in a modern Hong Kong that increasingly resembles a police state. Along the way we meet Communist rioters, ultra-violent gangsters, pop singers enmeshed in the high-stakes machinery of star-making, and a people always caught in the shifting balance of political power, whether in London or Beijing. Tracing a broad historical arc, The Borrowed reveals just how closely everything is connected, how history repeats itself, and how we have come full circle to repeat the political upheaval and societal unrest of the past. It is a gripping, brilliantly constructed novel from a talented new voice.


Hong Kong 20/20

Hong Kong 20/20
Author: P. E. N. Hong Kong Kong
Publisher:
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2017
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 9789887792765

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The handover in 1997 saw Hong Kong's transition from colonial to communist rule under the auspices of 'one country, two systems'. But twenty years on, the real impact of the sovereignty change is just starting to register, with a rapid erosion of freedoms. Believing that we are stronger together, PEN Hong Kong invited some of the city's most prominent writers to contribute to an anthology of essays, fiction and artwork that marks this historical milestone.


We Borrowed Gentleness

We Borrowed Gentleness
Author: J. Estanislao Lopez
Publisher: Alice James Books
Total Pages: 82
Release: 2022-10-09
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1948579375

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We Borrowed Gentleness interrogates the innateness of pain and forms of destruction—through natural disaster, through God, through family, and through the power structures and patriarchal violence that embeds itself in language and cultural memory. Poems critique and challenge the patriarchal narratives that dominate American history. The poems leave the question open of whether man, men, a father and son, are redeemable after the surge of rising white nationalism in America. And yet, there are poems that find, still, bits of joy and perhaps a shred of hope. By juxtaposing poems of louder narrative imagination with quieter poems that explore intimate failings within a family, often portrayed with a realist aesthetic, the book attempts to work through the essential fault in man, in men—in the structures that they design and maintain.


Borrowed Place

Borrowed Place
Author: Riika-Leena Juntunen
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 387
Release: 2015-08-17
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9004302948

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In Borrowed Place: Mission Stations and Local Adaption in Early Twentieth-Century Hunan Riika-Leena Juntunen creates a microhistorical narrative around the establishment, reception, and development of Lizhou protestant stations during the turbulent years of popular nationalism and early communist activity. The book examines the changing place identity around the stations from political, religious, ritual, cultural, and gendered perspectives, revealing a Chinese semi-religious community with varying motivations and in constant dialogue with its surroundings. The group developed its own normative code and hierarchy, and it offered both economic and religious benefits according to local models. Yet the developing political situation also meant it had to solve the question of anti-foreignism to be able to continue its existence.


Borrowed Time

Borrowed Time
Author: Tracy Clark
Publisher: Chicago Mystery
Total Pages: 385
Release: 2023-11-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1496748654

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In Tracy Clark's electrifying new mystery featuring Cassandra Raines, the former Chicago cop turned private investigator looks into a suspicious death as a favor to a friend--and makes some powerful enemies . . . Sitting in cold cars for hours, serving lowlifes with summonses. . . . Being a P.I. means riding out a lot of slow patches. But sometimes the most familiar paths can lead straight to danger--like at Cass's go-to diner, where new delivery guy Jung Byson wants to enlist her expertise. Jung's friend, Tim Ayers, scion of a wealthy Chicago family, has been found dead, floating in Lake Michigan near his luxury boat. And Jung is convinced there's a murderer on the loose . . . Cass reluctantly begins digging, only to discover that Jung neglected to mention one crucial fact: Tim Ayers was terminally ill. Given the large quantities of alcohol and drugs found in his body, Ayers' death appears to be either an accident or suicide. Yet as much as Cass would like to dismiss Jung's suspicions, there are too many unanswered questions and unexplained coincidences. Working her connections on both sides of the law, Cass tries to point the police in the right direction. But violence is escalating around her, and Cass's persistence has already attracted unwanted attention, uncovering sinister secrets that Cass may end up taking to her grave.


The Borrowed World

The Borrowed World
Author: Franklin Horton
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015-05-12
Genre: Appalachian Region
ISBN: 9781511974417

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Thousands of travelers become stuck after ISIS attacks the United States, leaving the nation's physical, electrical, and technological infrastructure in tatters. Jim Powell and his co-workers are stranded in a hotel in Richmond, Virginia, about five hundred miles from home. He and several others embark on a journey to try to get back home, by any means possible, in a world with scarce law enforcement where the rules of civilized society no longer apply.


A Borrowed Dream (Cimarron Creek Trilogy Book #2)

A Borrowed Dream (Cimarron Creek Trilogy Book #2)
Author: Amanda Cabot
Publisher: Baker Books
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2018-03-20
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1493412566

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Catherine Whitfield is sure that she will never again be able to trust anyone in the medical profession after the town doctor's excessive bleeding treatments killed her mother. Despite her loneliness and her broken heart, she carries bravely on as Cimarron Creek's dutiful schoolteacher, resigned to a life without love or family, a life where dreams rarely come true. Austin Goddard is a newcomer to Cimarron Creek. Posing as a rancher, he fled to Texas to protect his daughter from a dangerous criminal. He's managed to keep his past as a surgeon a secret. But when Catherine Whitfield captures his heart, he wonders how long he will be able to keep up the charade. With a deft hand, Amanda Cabot teases out the strands of love, deception, and redemption in this charming tale of dreams deferred and hopes becoming reality.


Borrowed Spaces: Life Between the Cracks of Modern Hong Kong: Penguin Specials

Borrowed Spaces: Life Between the Cracks of Modern Hong Kong: Penguin Specials
Author: Christopher DeWolf
Publisher: Penguin Group Australia
Total Pages: 106
Release: 2017-07-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1760143979

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Where have all the fishballs gone? From a journalist deeply attuned to the subtleties of Hong Kong life comes Borrowed Spaces, a chronicle of the ways in which the grassroots citizens of Hong Kong reshape their city to make up for the shortcomings of their bureaucratic government. Mango trees sprouting on roundabouts, fishball stalls and neon signs: these are just some of the Hong Kong icons that are casualties in the struggle to reclaim public spaces. Christopher DeWolf explores the history of Hong Kong’s urban growth through the daily tug of war between the people’s needs to express themselves and government regulations.