A Collection of Salty, Wet Stories from the Bar-Rooms of Hong Kong
The Cantonese call all things salacious harm sup-literally salty and wet. And the code word for anything harm sup is "kitchen tiles," because every Chinese kitchen is like a war zone, with broth and condiments spilt all over the place. Kitchen Tiles looks into the lascivious aspects of Hong Kong society. These 50 stories are based on true ......
What do "Nine dragons city" and "Mandarin's lake" have in common with "Wong Tai Sin", the name of a Taoist deity? They're all districts in Kowloon. This book is an exploration of Hong Kong's lesser-visited sister city - 15 years after its handover from Britain to China. Scores of colour photographs bring the peninsula to the reader in a salute to ......
How Mongolia's Mystic Monk Spread Tibetan Buddhism in the World's Harshest Desert
Danzan Ravjaa (1803-1856), officially known as the Fifth Noyon Incarnate Lama of the Gobi Desert, is perhaps Mongolia's most beloved saint. The Fourth had caused so many scandals that the Manchu Emperor banned his reincarnation. Consequently, when the young child was enthroned as the Fifth, the Emperor issued an edict of execution on the boy and ......
How a Hong Kong High-Flyer Overcame the Devastating Experience of Imprisonment
From prison, company chairman John Hung recounts his life in a sweep of Hong Kong history -- from his family roots in the 19th century through World War II to the present. The story tracks his Scottish/Chinese heritage, his rise and fall from the pinnacles of corporate success to the life-destroying court case and incarceration. With subtle ......
What do normal people in China look forward to when they get up in the morning? What is the mentor of Lang Lang like? What about the personal friend of Chairman Mao and how does his granddaughter relate to him after the murderous Cultural Revolution? What do the numerous evangelical Americans really think of the Chinese? How does the One Country, ......
Author and blogger Jason Y Ng has a knack for making the familiar both fascinating and funny. Three years after his best-selling debut Hong Kong State of Mind, the razor-sharp observer returns with a sequel that is bigger and every bit as poignant. This is a collection of 36 essays that examine some of the pressing social, cultural and ......
The Pioneering Story of the World's First Contactless Payment Card
Nowadays most people are familiar with payments using contactless cards, or even mobile phones. But few know that just after Hong Kongs handover to China in 1997, the city launched the worlds first payment system using the then-new contactless smart technology.
The stories of expatriates in Hong Kong the most dynamic, dramatic and diverse city in the Asia-Pacific region come to life in this book. Why did they come? Why do they stay? How did Hong Kong change them and their view of the world? What did they gain and what did they lose? Human beings are on the move, driven by economic globalisation, ......
Rachel Cartland came to Hong Kong in 1972 as one of just two female expatriates in the Hong Kong Government's elite administrative grade. Before she retired in 2006, her life was shaped by the events that rocked Hong Kong during those momentous years: corruption and the police mutiny, currency crisis, Tiananmen Square, the change of sovereignty ......
