Gweilo Memories Of A Hong Kong Childhood

Download or read book Gweilo written by Martin Booth and published by Doubleday UK. This book was released on 2004 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shadowed by the unhappiness of his warring parents, a broad-minded mother and a bigoted father, Martin Booth's memoir of his childhood in Hong Kong in the early 1950s is a journey into Chinese culture and an extinct colonial way of life.

Download or read book Golden Boy written by Martin Booth and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2006-11-14 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last work of the internationally known, Booker-shortlisted writer is a memoir of growing up in 1950s Hong Kong.

Download or read book Golden Boy written by Martin Booth and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2006-11-14 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At seven years old, Martin Booth found himself with all of Hong Kong at his feet. His father was posted there in 1952, and this memoir is his telling of that youth, a time when he had access to the corners of a colony normally closed to a "Gweilo," a "pale fellow" like him. His experiences were colorful and vast. Befriending rickshaw coolies and local stallholders, he learned Cantonese, sampled delicacies such as boiled water beetles and one-hundred-year-old eggs, and participated in vibrant festivals. He even entered the forbidden Kowloon Walled City, wandered into a secret lair of Triads, and visited an opium den. From the plink-plonk man with his dancing monkey to the Queen of Kowloon (a crazed tramp who may have been a Romanov), Martin Booth saw it all---but his memoir illustrates the deeper challenges he faced in his warring parents: a broad-minded mother who embraced all things Chinese and a bigoted father who was enraged by his family's interest in "going native." Martin Booth's compelling memoir, the last book he completed before dying, glows with infectious curiosity and humor and is an intimate representation of the now extinct time and place of his growing up.

Download or read book Hong Kong written by Ching Kwan Lee and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-09-08 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did Hong Kong transform itself from a 'shoppers' and capitalists' paradise' into a 'city of protests' at the frontline of a global anti-China backlash? CK Lee situates the post-1997 China–Hong Kong contestation in the broader context of 'global China.' Beijing deploys a bundle of power mechanisms – economic statecraft, patron-clientelism, and symbolic domination – around the world, including Hong Kong. This Chinese power project triggers a variety of countermovements from Asia to Africa, ranging from acquiescence and adaptation to appropriation and resistance. In Hong Kong, reactions against the totality of Chinese power have taken the form of eventful protests, which, over two decades, have broadened into a momentous decolonization struggle. More than an ideological conflict between a liberal capitalist democratizing city and its Communist authoritarian sovereign, the Hong Kong story, stunning and singular in its many peculiarities, offers lessons about China as a global force. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Download or read book Music on the Bamboo Radio written by Martin Booth and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 1998-08-27 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nicholas Highgate, separated from his parents during the Japanese invasion of Hong Kong, is smuggled to the mainland by his Chinese nurse and disguised as a Chinese boy. As he grows to manhood he witnesses the atrocities and deprivations of the Japanese occupation and is himself drawn into the Communist resistance activities. The book ends when the Japanese surrender and Nicholas is reunited with what remains of his family.

Download or read book The World of Suzie Wong written by Richard Mason and published by Signet Book. This book was released on 1957 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: British artist, Robert Lomax, meets pretty Suzie in a house of assignation in contemporary Hong Kong.

Download or read book The Kowloon Kid written by Phil Brown and published by . This book was released on 2019-08 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: