The Beijing Olympics focused the world's eyes on China. But despite increased tourism and rampant foreign investment, the cultural distance between China and the West remains as vast as the oceans that separate them. This little book is a visual tribute to the People's Republic of China, with an ardent emphasis on the People.
Four Long-Distance Trails That Reveal Hong Kong's Wild Places
Jade-green peaks, crashing waves, fung shui woods, rocky harbors and ancient walled villages - only a few miles separate all this from one of the worlds most crowded cities. Four long-distance trails allow access into this scenic landscape.
33 Unhurried Walks Through Hong Kong's Best Scenery
By any measure, Hong Kong is an impressive city. But there is a world beyond the impatient traffic and chic shopping malls: an older place of soot-blackened temples, traditional street markets and colonial-era museums.
For the third in his acclaimed Destination series, Paul French journeys to the former Portuguese enclave of Macao, for him as much a place of the imagination as of reality. Constantly portrayed as the louche, sinful sister of Hong Kong, it was also a key trade entrepot and early melting pot on the South China Sea.
History forgot one of the worlds worst maritime disasters. Until now. SS Jiangya sailed past Shanghais famous Bund on a December night, hours before an explosion would claim more lives than Titanic.
From sampan ladies and bamboo scaffolders to street cleaners, fishermen, security guards and market vendors - these workers form the backbone of the fast-paced metropolis of Hong Kong, yet they are often overlooked or taken for granted.
A Life with the Philharmoic, Broadway musicals and classical superstars
After 50 momentous years, little is remembered of the chaos the Hong Kong Philharmonic faced in its early days as a professional outfit. John Duffus arrived in Hong Kong in 1979 as its fifth general manager in as many years.
A journalist's quest to understand his mother's past leads him to discover a vanished China
Ian Gills first visit to Hong Kong in 1975 takes an unexpected turn when he meets his Chinese mother Billies friends, colleagues and fellow ex-prisoners of war, lifting the veil on a tumultuous past in Hong Kong and Shanghai.
A Danger Shared provides a searing visual history of Asia during World War II as seen by foreign correspondent Melville Jacoby. In this meticulously curated collection of never-before-seen images, readers experience glamorous Macau soirees, visit Guangxi farms, and witness wartime Chongqings wreckage and resilience.
