Even four decades after the passing of Asian martial-arts superstar Bruce Lee, his achievements still attract adoration from millions of movie fans. The biggest fan of all may be Jon Benn, who befriended the high-kicking hero while playing "the Big Boss", a villain in Lee's acclaimed 1972 movie "The Way of the Dragon". In this tell-tale ......
An American's Explorations of Hong Kong, Macao and Canton in the Early1920s
In the 1920s the American travel writer Harry A Franck was known to readers as the "Prince of Vagabonds". His wanderings were family affairs and he arrived in southern China in 1923 with his wife, their two young children and his mother.
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 compilation of biographical accounts from Shanghai's Baghdadi Jewish society offers insights into a remarkable community that lived through the crossroads of China's 20th-century history. Using previously unseen archival material, Meyer documents the rise and fall of larger-than-life personalities who witnessed the Sino-Japanese War, the ......
How an Englishman Helped Govern Hong Kong in its Last Decades as a British Colony
In 1976, Peter Mann left a gloomy England for the last corner of the British empire: Hong Kong. As a police inspector, he commanded a sub-unit and led a district vice squad in Kowloon, before joining the colonial government's Administrative Service and working in the fields of transport, housing, security, environment and tourism. He also served ......
From Clearwater Bay to Tai Long Wan, the Sai Kung Peninsula is Hong Kong's back garden - a place where people go to swim, hike, eat seafood alfresco, and otherwise escape the city. This title discovers the popular beaches and waterfront restaurants, and the hidden attractions.
In this full-colour book illustrating life in the colourful area south of Hollywood Road, Hong Kong, Lorette Roberts paints the town red - and orange, and yellow, and green, and blue ...There is a centre foldout of the rainbow-hued Soho restaurants; elsewhere you will find the crimsons and pinks of tiny boutiques and musicians playing live in a ......
Aberdeen Harbour & Repulse Bay to Stanley Market & Shek O
Hong Kongs Southside -- the glimmering stretch of coastline from Aberdeen, through Repulse Bay, Stanley and Tai Tam, to Shek O -- is a weekend paradise of restaurants, markets and beaches, the destination of choice for sailors, swimmers, hikers and shoppers. These attractions are all captured by Lorette Roberts in this book but, in her familiar ......
We hear news reports of the rise of China and its sleepless economy, often with sinister undertones supposed to alarm us. The reality can look very different. The author carries his camera at all times, because on every street corner you can find people napping in the strangest positions and situations, even snoring in deep slumber.
