Chungking Mansions: Photographs from Hong Kong’s last ghetto
Blacksmith Books, May 2019. Trade Paperback. More
Hong Kong
Grandma Grandpa Cook 2: Wastenot Gourmet 老爹媽思廚2：惜福料理
ArtforAll/MCCM Creations, 2023. Trade Paperback. More
Grandma Grandpa Cook 老爹媽思廚
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
Hong Kong 20/20: Reflections on a Borrowed Place
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
Hong Kong Noir (Akashic Noir Series)
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
Hong Kong without Us: A People's Poetry
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
Take Back Our Future: An Eventful Sociology of the Hong Kong Umbrella Movement
Cornell University Press, November 2019. Trade Paperback. More
Golden Boy: Memories of a Hong Kong Childhood
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
Two Systems, Two Countries
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
Tapping at Glass
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
Diamond Hill: Memories of Growing Up in a Hong Kong Squatter Village
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
City on Fire: the fight for Hong Kong
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
Chinese Ghosts Revisited: A Study of Paranormal Beliefs and Experiences
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
Diamond Hill
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
Days When I Hide My Corpse in a Cardboard Box: Selected Poems of Natalia Chan (Hong Kong Atlas) 自我紙盒藏屍的日子
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
City of Darkness Revisited
Watermark, January 2014. Hardcover. More
HK: PM Hong Kong Night Life 1974-1989
Asia One Books, October 2017. Hardcover. More
Hong Kong Apothecary: a Visual History of Chinese Medicine Packaging
MCCM Creations, December 2008. Trade Paperback. This book transports us to the exotic world of Chinese Medicine - a world of saan (powders), yun (pills), gou (plasters), dann (pellets), etc for every known ailment. These forms had a direct influence on the materials, typefaces, patterns, and compositions used in packaging..... More
Hong Kong on the Brink: An American Diplomat Relives 1967's Darkest Days
Blacksmith Books, September 2017. Trade Paperback. Syd Goldsmith's first taste of China's Cultural Revolution is blood on his tongue. It's 1967. Hong Kong is simmering, plagued by communist-led riots and strikes, crippled transport, punishing water-rationing, takeover threats from Beijing and roadside bombs. And Syd -- the only Caucasian Foreign Service..... More
Moving a Stone: Bilingual in Chinese and English (Hong Kong Atlas, 4)
Zephyr Press, June 2022. Trade Paperback. Yam Gong is a leading Hong Kong poet who has worked as a laborer since adolescence and produced many of his poems during his work breaks. An outsider poet, he explores the synthesis of everyday life and philosophical inquiry. Using shifting tonal registers, he..... More
The Kowloon English Club
Blacksmith Books, August 2021. Trade Paperback. Asia, 1996. What do you do when you have failed to find the meaning of life in India, your money has run out, your girlfriend has gone, and prospects at home are limited? Go further east, young man! Meet Joe Walsh, a backpacker who..... More
Ayo Gorkhali: The True Story of the Gurkhas
Blacksmith Books, August 2021. Trade Paperback. "Ayo Gorkhali!" - "The Gurkhas are upon you!" - is the battle cry of one of the world's most famous fighting forces. Yet the Gurkha story is not only about bravery in combat. It is also a story of tragedy.In WWI alone, 200,000 Gurkhas..... More
Hong Kong Cats: 8 Postcards
Thames & Hudson. Postcards. More
Portrait of Hong Kong 念香港人的舊 4th Print
WE Press, November 2021. Hardcover. More
The Borrowed
Grove Press, Black Cat, January 2017. Trade Paperback. From award-winning Hong Kong writer Chan Ho-Kei, The Borrowed tells the story of Kwan Chun-dok, a Hong Kong detective whose career spans fifty years of the territory's history. A deductive powerhouse, Kwan becomes a legend in the force, nicknamed "the Eye of..... More
