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Author
Publisher
Murdoch Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
To eat in Hong Kong is endlessly fascinating and exciting. A mere dot on the map of China, and home to seven million migrants, Hong Kong boasts a food scene that is breathtakingly rich and varied. Tony Tan explores this vibrant city through 80 exquisite dishes, from the cutting-edge contemporary to the traditional, from both the high and low of Hong Kong cuisine - with recipes from the city's iconic hotels, its hawker stalls, and even a legendary...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A candid, thrilling memoir from one of the most recognizable, influential, and beloved cinematic personalities in the world. Everyone knows Jackie Chan. Whether it's from Rush Hour, Shanghai Noon, The Karate Kid, or Kung Fu Panda, Jackie is admired by generations of moviegoers for his acrobatic fighting style, comic timing, and mind-bending stunts. In 2016--after fifty-six years in the industry, over 200 films, and many broken bones--he received...
Author
Publisher
Reaktion Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
From classic Bruce Lee films to the comedies of Jackie Chan, a vibrant look at the enduring fascination with the kung fu cinema of Hong Kong. In the spring and summer of 1973, a wave of martial arts movies from Hong Kong--epitomized by Bruce Lee's Enter the Dragon--smashed box-office records for foreign-language films in America and ignited a "kung fu craze" that swept the world. Fighting without Fighting explores this dramatic phenomenon, and it...
Publisher
Edko Films
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
Lung, a hardworking property agent, is facing a serious situation in life. His girlfriend won't marry him unless he can buy her a 1000-sq ft. apartment in one year's time; whilst Charlotte desperately needs a place to stay after her divorce. Along with Lung's intern Very, a mainland richling, they become co-owners of the office girl Hak's small flat that was left to Hak by her estranged mother.
Author
Publisher
Hogarth
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"After twenty years as a journalist in Hong Kong, ex-pat Englishman Adrian Gyle has very little to show for it. Evenings are whiled away with soup dumplings and tea at Fung Shing, the restaurant downstairs from his home on Java Road, that "most melancholy street in the city, the street where the dead congregated." It is through these jaded eyes that Gyle watches the city around him--once overflowing with wine dinners and private members' clubs--erupt...
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"An award-winning journalist and longtime Hong Konger indelibly captures the place, its people, and the untold history they are claiming, just as it is being erased. Lim's deeply researched-and deeply personal-account casts often startling new light on key moments: the British takeover in 1842, the negotiations leading to its "return" to China in 1997, the current protests, and the future Beijing seeks to impose. Throughout, it is populated by contemporary...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A gripping history of China's deteriorating relationship with Hong Kong, and its implications for the rest of the world. For 150 years as a British colony, Hong Kong was a beacon of prosperity where people, money, and technology flowed freely, and residents enjoyed many civil liberties. In preparation for handing the territory over to China in 1997, Deng Xiaoping promised that it would remain highly autonomous for fifty years. An international treaty...
11) The invisible
Publisher
Poh Kim
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
Four HK policemen are in their intertwined careers and personal life: Kan Yiu Yeung, Chan Yan Bo, San Si Lam, and Koo Ka Keung. The four of them were best of friends in their early days, working as officers in a counter-terrorism police organization known as the CTRU (Counter Terrorism Response Unit). Unknowingly, During one operation, a gunman stunned Nui Nui and was about to shoot him, when Ocean decided to shoot Nui-Nui's leg and forcefully lower...
13) The expatriates
Author
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The "emotions, identities, and relationships of three very different American women living in same small expat community in Hong Kong ... As each woman struggles with her own demons, their lives collide in ways that have irreversible consequences for them all."--
Three very different American women livie in the same small expat community in Hong Kong. Mercy, a young Korean American and recent Columbia graduate, is adrift, undone by a terrible incident...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Hong Kong has always been many cities to many people: a seaport, a gateway to an empire, a place where fortunes can be dramatically made or lost, a place to disappear and reinvent oneself, and a mixing pot of diverse populations from literally everywhere around the globe. A British Crown Colony for 155 years, Hong Kong is now ruled by the Chinese Communist Party who continues to threaten its democracy and put its rich legacy at risk. Here, renowned...
16) Cold war
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
The Hong Kong police department has been untouchable for years. Until one night the police headquarters receives an anonymous call after a loaded police van, carrying five highly trained officers and equipment, disappears off the grid. Receiving several cryptic phone calls from the hijackers, one officer starts realizing they're aware of every crucial decision they make. But as they execute a planned attack, little do they know they've become unwitting...
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Through the eyes of two frontline journalists comes a gripping narrative history of the Hong Kong pro-democracy movement centered around a cast of core activists, culminating in the 2019 mass protests and Beijing's brutal crackdown. Hong Kong was an experiment in governance. Handed back to China in 1997 after 156 years of British rule, it was meant to be a carve-out between hostile systems: a bridge between communism and capitalism, authoritarianism...
Author
Publisher
Crown Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Random House Children's Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"An action-packed picture book biography about Hollywood actor, stuntman, and beloved superstar Jackie Chan! A great read for Chan fans hoping to share their love of Rush Hour, Supercop, and Jackie's original brand of martial arts with their ready-to-tumble tyke. Pow! Bam! Wow! Jackie Chan has been making movies and amazing audiences with his original and comedic stunts for decades. Pow! Bam! Ow! But before he was an international star, Jackie grew...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow & Co
Pub. Date
©1997
Language
English
Description
A Eurasian detective investigating a series of murders in Hong Kong discovers a power struggle in preparation for the colony's takeover by China. The participants are the American mafia, cynical British diplomats and a Chinese warlord. By the author of A Personal History of Thirst.
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