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My True Story in Hong Kong

Author : Hussein Sultani
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1434989356
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (349 download)

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Download or read book My True Story in Hong Kong written by Hussein Sultani and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2012-09-25 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hussein Ally Sultani is on his way to China to attend a Traditional Medical Hospital to cure his leg. He is fully and legally equipped with a valid passport, visa, and a return ticket. But he finds himself in the hands of immigration officers who decide to put him in detention for no reason and with no explanation.Hussein Ally Sultani faces flogging and a lot of torture while at Hong Kong International Airport.His experience forced him to write this book. He wants the reader to be aware that home is always best.

The World of Suzie Wong

Author : Richard Mason
Publisher : Signet Book
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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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.

Dying to Be Me

Author : Anita Moorjani
Publisher : Hay House, Inc
ISBN 13 : 1401937527
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Dying to Be Me written by Anita Moorjani and published by Hay House, Inc. This book was released on 2022-03-08 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! "I had the choice to come back ... or not. I chose to return when I realized that 'heaven' is a state, not a place" In this truly inspirational memoir, Anita Moorjani relates how, after fighting cancer for almost four years, her body began shutting down—overwhelmed by the malignant cells spreading throughout her system. As her organs failed, she entered into an extraordinary near-death experience where she realized her inherent worth . . . and the actual cause of her disease. Upon regaining consciousness, Anita found that her condition had improved so rapidly that she was released from the hospital within weeks—without a trace of cancer in her body! Within this enhanced e-book, Anita recounts—in words and on video—stories of her childhood in Hong Kong, her challenge to establish her career and find true love, as well as how she eventually ended up in that hospital bed where she defied all medical knowledge. In "Dying to Be Me," Anita Freely shares all she has learned about illness, healing, fear, "being love," and the true magnificence of each and every human being!

Gweimui's Hong Kong Story

Author : Christine Cappio(張雪婷)
Publisher : 商務(香港)印書館
ISBN 13 : 9620771605
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (27 download)

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Download or read book Gweimui's Hong Kong Story written by Christine Cappio(張雪婷) and published by 商務(香港)印書館. This book was released on 2016-05-04 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She crossed from France to Hong Kong for her true love, stepped into an unknown world with……amazing wet markets, the pace of life, a funny title “lou-po”(wife). This is a journey of a French young woman turning into a Honghonger. From the bizarre wet market to colourful decorations for local festivities, Christine invites you to enjoy her daily adventures in a Chinese society which she calls home.

The Hong Kong Story

Author : Caroline Courtauld
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Hong Kong Story written by Caroline Courtauld and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This timely book chronicles the history of Hong Kong from its misty beginnings to the present day. The territory's unique and turbulent political and economic development form the backdrop to a still more compelling and human story. The essence of The Hong Kong Story is the interwoven sagas of the family dynasties and business houses - vital ingredients in transforming the barren rock' into a miracle city state. These families were by no means all British and Chinese: by the mid-nineteenth century Hong Kong was already a cosmopolitan city with a prominent American contingent. It is the collective spirit of these nationalities - grit, optimism, practicality, ruthlessness, generosity, resilience - that lies at the heart of modern Hong Kong's unique East-West chemistry. The book follows the waxing and waning fortunes of these dynasties and entrepreneurs through the convulsions of the Opium Wars, the collapse of imperial China, Japanese occupation, mass immigration, communist takeover in China, the Cultural Revolution, frequent booms and busts, and the approach of one country, two systems'. It a fascinating story of how human enterprise, rising above ethnic divides, has endowed a coastal enclave in Asia with not only unimaginable riches but a unique identity.

The Divine Travel Agency

Author : A Frank Corso Mystery
Publisher : Archway Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1665713992
Total Pages : 431 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (657 download)

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Download or read book The Divine Travel Agency written by A Frank Corso Mystery and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2021-11-05 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frank Corso runs his own Wall Street research consultancy and has an unusual ability to make friends. A forty year old bachelor living in New York, he is getting increasingly comfortable to a high-life marked by eroding moral virtue. On a business trip to visit a New Orleans based company, he gets more than he bargained for. In the weeks before Christmas of 2004, he is recruited by his ex-girlfriend to find her friend, a young mystic, who has disappeared. New Orleans is a city in Transition. The economy has been improving post the dot com crash, and local government and business leaders are leveraging the city’s crown jewel, The French Quarter. The haven for tourists also has a dark side. The city is marred by political corruption and violence. In 2004, it has the distinction of being the murder capital of the United States. Corso soon finds The Big Easy culture known for its architecture, food and music, filled with a rich marinade of diverse and unusual characters. Befriending people with deep roots in the shallow clays of the Mississippi River, his life is about to change course. He is about to discover the secrets of...The Divine Travel Agency.

My City

Author : Xi, Xi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book My City written by Xi, Xi and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Dancing for Your Life

Author : Brandon Royal
Publisher : Maven Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1897393024
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (973 download)

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Download or read book Dancing for Your Life written by Brandon Royal and published by Maven Publishing. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dancing for Your Life chronicles the true story of a beautiful, young Filipina who, in order to help her family financially, leaves her home in the quiet Philippines countryside to work as a go-go dancer in Hong Kong's red-light district of Wan Chai. It presents a rare first-person account that is thought provoking and controversial. Here is the “untold story” of faith, friendship, and sacrifice, but also of triumph and forgiveness. Target Audience: This book will hold special appeal for readers interested in gaining a behind-the-scenes look at the workings of an Asian go-go bar. It also lends itself to classroom or group discussion and would be a welcomed companion for courses in sociology, social science, cultural studies, gender studies, or spirituality. It provides a platform to explore the complexity of terms such as “freewill,” “freedom,” “duty,” “obligation,” “sacrifice,” and “exploitation.” “Straightforward. Honest. Storytelling that works because it bleeds truth on every page.” —Karl Taro Greenfeld, former Editor, Time Asia magazine

Telling True Stories

Author : Mark Kramer
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780452287556
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (875 download)

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Download or read book Telling True Stories written by Mark Kramer and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-01-30 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interested in journalism and creative writing and want to write a book? Read inspiring stories and practical advice from America’s most respected journalists. The country’s most prominent journalists and nonfiction authors gather each year at Harvard’s Nieman Conference on Narrative Journalism. Telling True Stories presents their best advice—covering everything from finding a good topic, to structuring narrative stories, to writing and selling your first book. More than fifty well-known writers offer their most powerful tips, including: • Tom Wolfe on the emotional core of the story • Gay Talese on writing about private lives • Malcolm Gladwell on the limits of profiles • Nora Ephron on narrative writing and screenwriters • Alma Guillermoprieto on telling the story and telling the truth • Dozens of Pulitzer Prize–winning journalists from the Atlantic Monthly, New Yorker, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post and more . . . The essays contain important counsel for new and career journalists, as well as for freelance writers, radio producers, and memoirists. Packed with refreshingly candid and insightful recommendations, Telling True Stories will show anyone fascinated by the art of writing nonfiction how to bring people, scenes, and ideas to life on the page.

Airframe

Author : Michael Crichton
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0345526775
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (455 download)

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Download or read book Airframe written by Michael Crichton and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2011-03-22 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of Jurassic Park, Timeline, and Sphere comes this extraordinary thriller about airline safety, business intrigue, and a deadly cover-up. “The pacing is fast, the suspense nonstop.”—People Three passengers are dead. Fifty-six are injured. The interior cabin is virtually destroyed. But the pilot manages to land the plane. At a moment when the issue of safety and death in the skies is paramount in the public mind, a lethal midair disaster aboard a commercial twin-jet airliner flying from Hong Kong to Denver triggers a pressured and frantic investigation. Airframe is nonstop reading, full of the extraordinary mixture of super suspense and authentic information on a subject of compelling interest that are the hallmarks of Michael Crichton. “A one-sitting read that will cause a lifetime of white-knuckled nightmares.”—The Philaelphia Inquirer “The ultimate thriller . . . [Crichton’s] stories are always page-turners of the highest order. . . . [Airframe] moves like a firehouse dog chasing a red truck.”—The Denver Post “Dramatically vivid.”—The New York Times

My Life

Author : Zhongjiao Chin
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781495968020
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (68 download)

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Download or read book My Life written by Zhongjiao Chin and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-02-14 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in Hong Kong and mainland China, 'My Life' is a moving story of one woman's incredible spirit as she lives through the hell of the Japanese occupation and Communist takeover of China before, during, and after World War Two. Her life begins on a quiet California farm, but her family returns to Hong Kong in the 1930s. When Japanese troops march in, they are forced to flee to a village in mainland China to escape the cruelty of the Japanese. As a teenager she manages to fall in love despite the Japanese occupation. When the war comes to an end, she marries her high school sweetheart. But her happiness is brief. Life again becomes a living hell again when Mao's communist administrators take control of her village. There is widespread torture and starvation as families are destroyed and loved ones are lost, all in the name of 'communist equality'. With her husband missing and presumed dead in Hong Kong, Zhong Jiao and her young daughter flee from the political terror. Her bittersweet adventures continue until she is able to escape to Hong Kong and then finally return to her native California. Poignant and emotionally penetrating, this is an unforgettable story of one woman's courage and compassion as she travels in her journey through life during the turmoil of contemporary Chinese history.

Dealing in Dreams

Author : Lilliam Rivera
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 148147216X
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (814 download)

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Download or read book Dealing in Dreams written by Lilliam Rivera and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A novel exploration of societal roles, gender, and equality.” —School Library Journal (starred review) The Outsiders meets Mad Max: Fury Road in this “daring and dramatic” (Victor LaValle, author of The Changeling) dystopian novel about sisterhood and the cruel choices people are forced to make in order to survive. At night, Las Mal Criadas own these streets. Sixteen-year-old Nalah leads the fiercest all-girl crew in Mega City. That role brings with it violent throwdowns and access to the hottest boydega clubs, but Nala quickly grows weary of her questionable lifestyle. Her dream is to get off the streets and make a home in the exclusive Mega Towers, in which only a chosen few get to live. To make it to the Mega Towers, Nalah must prove her loyalty to the city’s benevolent founder and cross the border in a search of the mysterious gang the Ashé Riders. Led by a reluctant guide, Nalah battles crews and her own doubts but the closer she gets to her goal the more she loses sight of everything—and everyone—she cares about. Nalah must choose whether or not she’s willing to do the unspeakable to get what she wants. Can she discover that home is not where you live but whom you chose to protect before she loses the family she’s created for good?

City Between Worlds

Author : Leo Ou-fan Lee
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674046897
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book City Between Worlds written by Leo Ou-fan Lee and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2010-05-01 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hong Kong is perched on the fault line between China and the West, a Special Administrative Region of the PRC. Leo Ou-fan Lee offers an insiderÕs view of Hong Kong, capturing the history and culture that make his densely packed home city so different from its generic neighbors. The search for an indigenous Hong Kong takes Lee to the wet markets and corner bookshops of congested Mong Kok, remote fishing villages and mountainside temples, teahouses and noodle stalls, Cantonese opera and Cantopop. But he also finds the ÒrealÓ Hong Kong in a maze of interconnected shopping malls, a jungle of high-rise residential towers, and the neon glow of Chinese-owned skyscrapers in the Central Business District, where land development, global trade, capital accumulation, consumerism, and free-market competition trump every valueÑexcept family. Lee illuminates the relationship between Hong KongÕs geography and its colonial experience, revisiting colonial life on the secluded Peak, in the opium-filled godowns along the harborfront, and in crowded, plague-infested tenements. He examines, with a criticÕs eye, the ÒHong Kong storyÓ in film and fiction: romance in the bars and brothels of Wan Chai, crime in the walled city of Kowloon, ennui on the eve of the 1997 handover. Whether viewed from Tsing Yi Bridge or the deck of the Star Ferry, from Victoria Peak or Lion Rock, Hong Kong sparkles here in all its multifaceted complexity, a city forever between worlds.

Escape from Hong Kong

Author : Tim Luard
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
ISBN 13 : 9888083767
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Escape from Hong Kong written by Tim Luard and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2011-12-01 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 25 December 1941, the day of Hong Kong's surrender to the Japanese, Admiral Chan Chak—the Chinese government's chief agent in Hong Kong—and more than 60 Chinese and British intelligence, naval and marine personnel made a dramatic escape from the invading army. They travelled on five small motor torpedo boats—all that remained of the Royal Navy in Hong Kong—across Mirs Bay, landing at a beach near Nanao. Then, guided by guerrillas and villagers, they walked for four days through enemy lines to Huizhou, before flying to Chongqing or travelling by land to Burma. The breakout laid the foundations of an escape trail jointly used by the British Army Aid Group and the East River Column for the rest of the war. Chan Chak, the celebrated "one-legged admiral", became Mayor of Canton after the war and was knighted by the British for his services to the Allied cause. His comrade in the escape, David MacDougall, became head of the civil administration of Hong Kong in 1945. This gripping narrative account of the escape draws on a wealth of primary sources in both English and Chinese and sheds new light on the role played by the Chinese in the defence of Hong Kong, on the diplomacy behind the escape, and on the guerillas who carried the Admiral in a sedan chair as they led his party over the rivers and mountains of enemy-occupied China. Escape from Hong Kong will appeal not just to military historians and those with a special interest in Hong Kong and China but also to anyone who appreciates a good old-fashioned adventure story.

Chasing the Dragon

Author : Jackie Pullinger
Publisher : Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN 13 : 1444717979
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (447 download)

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Download or read book Chasing the Dragon written by Jackie Pullinger and published by Hodder & Stoughton. This book was released on 2012-01-19 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until it was pulled down, the Walled City was Hong Kong's most foreboding territory. It was a lawless place, dominated by the Triads, and which the police hesitated to enter. Strangers were unwelcome. Drug smuggling and heroin addiction flourished, as did prostitution and pornography, extortion and fear. When Jackie Pullinger set sail from England in 1966 she had no idea that God was calling her to the Walled City. Yet, as she spoke of Jesus Christ, brutal Triad gangsters were converted, prostitutes quit, and Jackie discovered a new treatment for drug addiction: baptism in the Holy Spirit.

Hong Kong Noir

Author : Feng Chi-shun
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789881613967
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (139 download)

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Download or read book Hong Kong Noir written by Feng Chi-shun and published by . This book was released on 2014-02-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hong Kong pathologist Feng Chi-shun once owned a dive bar in Kowloon City: a rough part of town which was home to the Sun Yee On triad gang. During that time, he heard a lot of stories. How about the street sleeper who was a millionaire, or the man who chose to end it all in Chungking Mansions? Do you want to know the details of the gruesome Hello kitty murder, or what the taxi driver from hell did to his passengers? How about Elvis of the Orient, the ancient movie star who fooled hundreds of people for his final performance, or the student who stumbled into the 1967 riots and entered the world of girlie bars? And what was the truth about the girl with the eagle tattoo? The 15 stories in Hong Kong Noir offer a glimpse of what happens in the shadows.

Hong Kong Beat

Author : Simon Roberts
Publisher : Blacksmith Books
ISBN 13 : 9789887792819
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (928 download)

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Download or read book Hong Kong Beat written by Simon Roberts and published by Blacksmith Books. This book was released on 2019-12-07 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sex, drugs, gambling, ghosts, drinking, rugby - and even some police work. Hong Kong on the edge of empire was teeming with triads, smugglers, Chinese immigrants and Vietnamese refugees. Simon's memoir of his time in the Hong Kong police - from the 1970s until after the handover - is a fast-paced tale. From the murky back streets of Kowloon to the open seas, his shocking and hilarious story shows what life was like on the Hong Kong beat.