This guide to Hong Kong is one of the Frommer city guides which offer value-conscious recommendations on hotels, restaurants and sightseeing.
In 1842 a barren island was reluctantly ceded by China to an unenthusiastic Britain. Hong Kong, grumbled Palmerston, will never be a mart of trade. But from the outset the...
Wendy Siuyi Wong's voluminously illustrated book examines the history of this genre from its beginnings to its most influential contemporary practitioners. Over 1,000 color manhua, each with an English annotation.
Explores the city's history, its blend of Eastern and Western traditions, and its hopes for the future as Hong Kong prepares to become a part of the People's Republic of China
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 ...
States. After his eldest two sons attended U.S. graduate schools in the late 1940s, two more sons graduated from ... all returned to Hong Kong for a time and assumed management positions at Ka Wah, Chiap Hua, and Baptist College.
Hong Kong Local is packed with delicious yet approachable recipes, so you can recreate the magic of Hong Kong at home.
But as Ghetto at the center of the world shows us, the Mansions is a world away from the gleaming headquarters of multinational corporations -instead it epitomizes the way globalization actually works for most of the world's people.
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'Defying the Dragon' tells a remarkable story of audacity: of how the people of Hong Kong challenged the PRC's authority, just as its president reached the height of his powers.
Moreover , Mui , seeing her daughter's wonder at a guppy in a fishbowl , alludes to increasing harbor pollution when she tells the young girl that ' once upon a time fish swam in the water . In their critique of the Hong Kong ...