Chinese University of Hong Kong Press, November 2020. Hardcover. "The Best China," an expression traditionally used to refer to the finest crockery brought out when one is entertaining special guests, has been adapted here to mean the Best Chinese Tradition of free-thinking discursive prose. This anthology of essays from Hong..... More
Blacksmith Books, May 2019. Trade Paperback. More
Rooftop Institute, August 2023. Trade Paperback. More
Drawn & Quarterly, October 2024. Hardcover. Celebrating the pop culture phenomenon that redefined what it meant to be Asian-American with tributes from Margaret Cho, Randall Park, Jia Tolentino, and more. Los Angeles, 1994. Two Asian-American punk rockers staple together the zine of their dreams featuring Sumo, Hong Kong Cinema and..... More
Akashic Books, Ltd., December 2018. Hardcover. Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each book comprises all new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the respective city. In Hong Kong Noir, fourteen of the city's finest..... More
Georgia Review Books, April 2021. Trade Paperback. Hong Kong without Us is a decentralized book of revolutionary poetry. Drawn directly from the voices of Hong Kong during its anti-extradition protests, the poems consist of submitted testimonies and found materials--and are all anonymous from end to end, from first speech to..... More
Small Tune Press, 2024. Trade Paperback. More
Art and Culture Outreach, 2020. Trade Paperback. More
Scribe US, October 2023. Trade Paperback. The Last Yakuza tells the history of the yakuza like it's never been told before in this gripping, true crime story by the author of Tokyo Vice. Makoto Saigo is half-American and half-Japanese, living in small-town Japan. He has two talents: playing guitar and..... More
Kehrer Verlag, September 2023. Hardcover. Documenting a vanishing world of Japanese jazz cultureJapanese jazz bars and coffee shops are insular worlds where time ceases to exist, removed from the speed and chaos of the modern urban landscape. Tokyo Jazz Joints is a visual chronicle of this unique culture that captures..... More
Art and Culture Outreach, July 2019. Hardcover. More
Picador, November 2006. Trade Paperback. At seven years old, Martin Booth found himself with all of Hong Kong at his feet when his father was posted there in 1952. This is his memoir of that youth, a time when he had access to corners of the colony normally closed to..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, May 2023. Hardcover. "It is impossible to understand China today without understanding the Cultural Revolution," Tania Branigan writes. During this decade of Maoist fanaticism between 1966 and 1976, children turned on parents, students condemned teachers, and as many as two million people died for their..... More
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Grotto Fine Art Ltd, March 2025. Trade Paperback. More
Verve Poetry Press, 2023. Trade Paperback. Tapping At Glass charts girlhood, multilingualism, and psychogeography from Hong Kong to Scotland. Myths, meditations on the arts and mass media, and migration stories entwine. Through protest-stricken urban spaces, love hotels, farming as activism, frog watching, alternative therapies, and seascapes where racial and social..... More
Random House, February 2022. Hardcover. A boldly rendered--and deeply intimate--account of Hong Kong today, from a resilient young woman whose stories explore what it means to survive in a city teeming with broken promises. "[A] pulsing debut . . . about what it means to find your place in a...... More
Columbia University Press, March 2023. Trade Paperback. Reporting on China has long been one of the most challenging and crucial of journalistic assignments. Foreign correspondents have confronted war, revolution, isolation, internal upheaval, and onerous government restrictions as well as barriers of language, culture, and politics. Nonetheless, American media coverage of..... More
House of Anansi Press, September 2021. Trade Paperback. While the United States stumbles, an award-winning foreign correspondent chronicles China's dramatic moves to become a dominant power. As the world's second-largest economy, China is extending its influence across the globe with the complicity of democratic nations. Joanna Chiu has spent a...... More
Free Press, December 2025. Trade Paperback. Jimmy Lai escaped mainland China when he was twelve years old, at the height of a famine that killed tens of millions. In Hong Kong, he hustled and often slept overnight on a table in a clothing factory where he did odd jobs. At..... More
Princeton University Press, June 2025. Hardcover. A compelling new reading of The Tragedy of King Lear that finds parallels in twentieth-century Chinese history At the start of Shakespeare's famous tragedy, King Lear promises to divide his kingdom based on his daughters' professions of love, but portions it out before hearing..... More
Scribe US, June 2020. Trade Paperback. A long-term resident and expert observer of dissent in Hong Kong takes readers to the frontlines of Hong Kong's revolution. Through the long, hot summer of 2019, Hong Kong burned. Anti-government protests, sparked by a government proposal to introduce a controversial extradition law, grew..... More
Random House Trade, May 2026. Trade Paperback. NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE - The heartrending story of twin sisters torn apart by China's one-child policy and the rise of international adoption--from the author of the National Book Award finalist Nothing to Envy "Remarkable . . . Barbara Demick..... More
Random House, September 2010. Trade Paperback. NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST - An eye-opening account of life inside North Korea--a closed world of increasing global importance--hailed as a "tour de force of meticulous reporting" (The New York Review of Books) FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD - FINALIST FOR..... More
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