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Tales of Old Hong KongPosted by Alice Xin Liu, February 20, 2010 12:00 PM
The new Tales of Old Hong Kong compiled and written by Derek Sandhaus is available at Earnshaw Books. Below we run an extract. Excerpt from Tales of Old Hong Kongedited and written by Derek SandhausBoat People The Peak Tram Man Overboard! On one occasion, our dinghy kept drifting nearer and nearer the dynamite, which smouldered but wouldn’t go off. When we were nearly on top of it expecting at any moment to be frightfully shocked (we were too paralysed to pull away) one of our pals in the boat – a nervy chap – dived overboard in a mortal funk. Then the long-waited- for explosion exploded, and, as usual, the shock struck downwards; so our dear old pal with the other silly fishes came floating to the surface tummy topside! We didn’t cook or fillet him – just smacked him to life – then passed the cherry-brandy round!
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Tales of Old Hong Kong: The new Tales of Old Hong Kong compiled by Derek Sandhaus is available at Earnshaw Books.
Diamond Hill by Feng Chi-shun: Feng's memoir Diamond Hill describes an era of gambling and gangsters, Suzie Wong and squatter villages, fires and food stalls, and the Kowloon Walled City and its white powder. "A time when people were poor, but life was rich," he says. The world that he grew up in no longer exists, but his book - the first ever on the Diamond Hill refugee settlement, in either Chinese or English - offers a candid picture of what life was like for most Hong Kong residents in the 1950s.
William A. Callahan's China: The Pessoptimist Nation: China: The Pessoptimist Nation shows how the heart of Chinese foreign policy is not a security dilemma, but an identity dilemma. Through a careful analysis of how Chinese people understand their new place in the world, the book charts how Chinese identity emerges through the interplay of positive and negative feelings in a dynamic that intertwines China's domestic and international politics.
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