[PDF] Arthur Hackers Wanchai eBook

Author : Arthur Hacker
Publisher :
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 42,44 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Wan Chai (Hong Kong, China)
ISBN : 9789622174658

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A guide that retraces Wanchai's history.

Author : Michael Ingham
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 44,65 MB
Release : 2007-06-18
Category : History
ISBN : 0199886245

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Hong Kong has always been something of an anomaly, and an outpost of empire, whether British or Chinese. Once described as a barren island, the former fishing community has been transformed by its own economic miracle into one of Asia's World Cities, taking in its stride the territory's 1997 return to Chinese sovereignty. Beneath the surface of Hong Kong's clichéd self-image as Pearl of the Orient and Shopping Paradise, Michael Ingham reveals a city rich in history, myth, and cultural diversity.

Author : Leo Ou-fan Lee
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 50,9 MB
Release : 2010-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0674046897

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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.

Author : Michael Anthony Ingham
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 19,29 MB
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 0195314972

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Explores the culture and history of Hong Kong.

Author : Leo Lee Ou-fan
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 651 pages
File Size : 31,97 MB
Release : 2011-07-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9881500508

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These essays explore cosmopolitanism in postwar Chinese literary culture—from the Hong Kong identity, and intellectuals like Eileen Chang, Gao Xingjian, and Lung Yingtai, to other cultural streams represented by writers ranging from Oe to Kafka.

Author : Vaudine England
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 15,95 MB
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9789622094734

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Noel Groucher nad a secret penchant for philanthropy. From simple beginnings in England, he arrived in Hong Kong at the turn of the century to live through eight decades of change on the China Coast. Myster surrounded Noel Croucher. Seen as tight-fisted by some yet loved by others, he endowed Hong Kong with its richest academic charity in The Croucher Foundation. He became Commodore of the Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club and chairman of the Stock Exchange. To many he was a throwback to the glory days of empire. Yet he battled prejudice to get ahead in the colony. That era has now passed. This timely, fresh look at the lives lived on the Coast - through Noel Croucher's life story - brings out the realities of those times.