Chungking Mansions: Photographs from Hong Kong’s last ghetto
Blacksmith Books, May 2019. Trade Paperback. More
Blacksmith Books, May 2019. Trade Paperback. More
ArtforAll/MCCM Creations, 2023. Trade Paperback. More
MCCM Creations, May 2012. Trade Paperback. A collection of over forty recipes and stories recounted by grandparents who came to Hong Kong from China before World War II, Grandma Grandpa Cook is a celebration of the selfless devotion of grandparents to their families, and their contribution to the cultural history..... More
Blacksmith Books, September 2017. Trade Paperback. The handover in 1997 saw Hong Kong's smooth transition from colonial to Communist rule under the auspices of the 'one country, two systems' framework. But twenty years on, the real impact of the sovereignty change is just starting to register: the city's near-total economic..... More
Akashic Books, December 2018. Trade Paperback. Hong Kong Noir digs below the financial centre's gleaming surface to unearth stories of the city's ghosts and spirits...The stories touch on major points in Hong Kong modern history: the horrors of Japanese occupation, post-war poverty, the economic boom under the British, the city's..... 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
Cornell University Press, November 2019. Trade Paperback. 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
University of California Press, May 2022. Trade Paperback. As Hong Kong is integrated into the People's Republic of China, ever fewer people in the city identify as Chinese. Two Systems, Two Countries explains why. Two Systems, Two Countries traces the origins of Hong Kong nationalism and introduces readers to its..... More
Mariner Books, February 2021. Trade Paperback. A Best Book of the Year: Barack Obama - NPR - The Washington Post - The Philadelphia Inquirer - Esquire - Kirkus Reviews - Chicago Public Library - Electric Literature Malala Yousafzai's Fearless Book Club Pick for Literati "Dazzling...Riveting." --New York Times Book Review..... 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
Blacksmith Books, November 2010. Trade Paperback. "Diamond Hill was one of the poorest and most backward of villages in Hong Kong at a time when Hong Kong itself was poor and backward. We moved there in 1956 when I was almost 10. I left when I was 19. Those were..... 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. 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, 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
Bloomsbury Press, June 2017. Trade Paperback. The concluding volume--following Mao's Great Famine and The Tragedy of Liberation--in Frank Dikötter's award-winning trilogy chronicling the Communist revolution in China. After the economic disaster of the Great Leap Forward that claimed tens of millions of lives from 1958-1962, an aging Mao Zedong launched..... More
Bloomsbury Paperbacks, January 2018. Trade Paperback. A groundbreaking chronicle of the violent early years of the People's Republic of China by the author of the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize-winning Mao's Great Famine. "The Chinese Communist party refers to its victory in 1949 as a 'liberation.' In China the story of..... More
Blacksmith Books, December 2017. Trade Paperback. Do the Hong Kong Chinese experience ghosts, hauntings, spirit mediumship, ESP and other paranormal phenomena just like British and Americans? Or is their culture so different that the ghost accounts in this book will seem bizarre to anyone else? This classic presentation of cases..... More
Vintage, February 2013. Trade Paperback. More
World Editions, May 2021. Trade Paperback. It is 1987 and three years since Britain signed the Joint Declaration agreeing to hand over its last colony, Hong Kong, to China in 1997. With that declaration comes the promise that the city will remain unchanged for fifty years. But upheaval is already..... More
Zephyr Press, August 2018. Trade Paperback. Lok Fung explores the political, linguistic and cultural tensions of being both from Hong Kong and a feminist in her first major bilingual collection in English. A prolific poet and critic, she writes in Cantonese, sprinkling her work with pop culture references, and engaging..... More
Watermark, January 2014. Hardcover. More
Asia One Books, October 2017. Hardcover. More