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Author : Charles William Wild
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)
Download or read book Letters from Hong Kong written by Charles William Wild and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gill Shaddick
Publisher : Australian Scholarly Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1925801632
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Hong Kong Letters written by Gill Shaddick and published by Australian Scholarly Publishing. This book was released on 2019-03-29 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late sixties when the Beatles are top of the charts and Twiggy is hitting the catwalk, Gill embarks on a life-changing journey to Hong Kong. Mao’s revolution is at its height. Vietnam has become America’s longest war with no end in sight. But it’s at an ad agency under insane direction where Gill finds her battles and learns to stand her ground. In this spirited memoir, where Mad Men meets Han Suyin’s A Many-Splendoured Thing, Gill recreates a Hong Kong of the imagination. Attractive and naïve, wined and dined by Hong Kong’s elite, she gravitates towards camaraderie outside the world of advertising and money, and adventure follows. A weekend sail goes awry when a yacht with her on board strays into the waters of Communist China. A full-scale sea and air search mounted from Hong Kong can find no trace. Yet Gill is very much alive. With her friends, she is reciting from Mao’s Little Red Book with no idea what fate awaits her or how long she will be held. The Hong Kong Letters is part memoir, part travelogue. Gill introduces us to characters that fiction couldn’t have invented any better and transports the reader to another time and place, a reminder that anyone can fit the experiences of a lifetime into two short years.
Author : Albert George Martin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780646379982
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)
Download or read book Letters from Hong Kong written by Albert George Martin and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Isabel Taylor Escoda
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)
Download or read book Letters from Hong Kong written by Isabel Taylor Escoda and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Andrew Hillier
Publisher : City University of HK Press
ISBN 13 : 962937577X
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)
Download or read book My Dearest Martha: The Life and Letters of Eliza Hillier written by Andrew Hillier and published by City University of HK Press. This book was released on 2021-07-01 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “For this brief moment, the two sisters could be ‘together in heart and affection’, and through such letters bridge the distance of empire.” We often learn about the commerce, diplomacy, and military campaigns of the British empire without reference to the intimate side of life in these times—the development of self, the position of women, and the importance of family. In this book, the story of empire, so often told from a man’s perspective, is given a unique vantage point through Eliza Hillier’s letters to her younger sister, Martha. Written largely from Hong Kong, Shanghai, England, and Siam, the letters allow us to become a member of her family and follow the daily tribulations associated with the life of a young British woman in the port cities of Asia. We are thus able to share Eliza’s experiences as she leaves home to embark on married life, starts and raises a family, grieves at the abrupt and tragic loss of her husband, Charles Batten Hillier, and then sets about re-building her life. At once a reflection on the daily components of empire, an entertaining narrative of familial relationships, and the story of one woman’s inner feelings, My Dearest Martha guides us through the vagaries of life for a family who were very much a part of imperial careering and missionary circles in East and Southeast Asia. The letters are complemented by images and commentary from the author, a descendant of Eliza, providing context and depth, which together give us a fuller picture of British colonial life in the mid-1800s from a perspective that will resonate with readers around the world.
Author : Susanna Hoe
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136822496
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Taking of Hong Kong written by Susanna Hoe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-11 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relations between Britain and China have, for over 150 years, been inextricably bound up with the taking of Hong Kong Island on 26 January 1841. The man responsible, Britain's plenipotentiary Captain Charles Elliot, was recalled by his government in disgrace and has been vilified ever since by China. This book describes the taking of Hong Kong from Elliot's point of view for the first time '- through the personal letters of himself and his wife Clara '- and shows a man of intelligence, conscience and humanitarian instincts. The book gives new insights into Sino-British relations of the period. Because these are now being re-assessed both historically and for the future, revelations about Elliot's role, intentions and analysis are significant and could make an important difference to our understanding of the dynamics of these relations. On a different level, the book explores how Charles the private man, with his wife by his side, experienced events, rather than how Elliot the public figure reported them to the British government. The work is therefore of great historiographical interest.
Author : Patricia McMahon
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780395686218
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)
Download or read book Six Words, Many Turtles, and Three Days in Hong Kong written by Patricia McMahon and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1997 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the daily activities, school work, and family life of an eight-year-old Chinese girl living in Hong Kong.
Author : Jules Brown
Publisher : Rough Guides
ISBN 13 : 9781858288727
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)
Download or read book Hong Kong & Macau written by Jules Brown and published by Rough Guides. This book was released on 2002 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This resource includes full details of Hong Kong harbour, its shopping and nightlife districts, traditional sites and off-the-beaten track areas of the New Territories and outlying islands. A history and a cultural guide is included, as well as places to eat, drink and sleep on every budget. Background information on post-handover politics and features on festivals, feng shui and Chinese astrology are also included.
Author : Jennifer Wong
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781911027874
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)
Download or read book Letters Home written by Jennifer Wong and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Letters Home, Jennifer Wong's remarkable and vivid third collection of poems, unravels the complexities of being between nations, languages and cultures. Travelling across multiple borders of history and place, these poems examine what it means to be returning home, and whether it is a return to a location, a country or to a shared dream or language. "There are poems of homesickness, nostalgia, but also humour, hope and optimism - all depicted in Wong's distinctive, intelligent style... This is a remarkable collection, which makes a new and bold contribution to the genre of diaspora literature." - Hannah Lowe "Jennifer Wong's voice is captivating, compassionate, her poems full of insight, as she questions the complex relationship between culture and identity and what it means to leave a place to become defined by another." - Rebecca Goss
Author : Thomas Chisholm ANSTEY
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)
Download or read book Crime and Government at Hong Kong. A letter to the editor of the “Times,” etc written by Thomas Chisholm ANSTEY and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
