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Publisher
Columbia University Press
Pub. Date
©2001
Physical Desc
xx, 1342 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Begins with the linguistic and intellectual foundations of Chinese literature and moves successively through verse, prose, fiction, drama, and commentary and criticism; it then closes with popular and peripheral manifestations. A special feature is the focus on such contextual subjects as the history of popular culture, the effect of religion upon literature, the role of women, and relationships with non-Sinitic languages and peoples.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
Filth (Failed In London Try Hong Kong) is a successful lawyer when he marries Elisabeth in Hong Kong soon after the War. Reserved, immaculate and courteous, Filth finds it hard to demonstrate his emotions. But Elisabeth is different - a free spirit.
Author
Language
English
Description
"In 1942, Will Truesdale, an Englishman newly arrived in Hong Kong, falls headlong into a passionate relationship with Trudy Liang, a beautiful Eurasian socialite. But their love affair is soon threatened by the invasion of the Japanese, with terrible consequences for both of them, and for members of their fragile community who will betray each other in the darkest days of the war."--P. [4] of cover.
5) Never enough
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nancy Kissel had it all: glamour, wealth, and what a friend described as "the best marriage in the universe." That marriage--to Merrill Lynch investment banker Robert Kissel--ended abruptly one night in 2003 in their luxury apartment high above Hong Kong's glittering Victoria Harbour. Hong Kong prosecutors, who charged Nancy with murder, said she wanted to inherit Rob's millions and start a new life with a blue-collar lover. She said she'd killed...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
As World War II threatens their comfortable life in Hong Kong, young Joan and Emma Lew escape with their family to spend the war years in Macao. When they return home, Emma has developed a deep interest in travel and new experiences, while Joan has turned to movies and thoughts of romance to escape the problems of ordinary life. As the girls become women, each follows a path different from what her family expects. But through periods of great happiness...
8) Pearl Moon
Author
Publisher
Fawcett Columbine
Pub. Date
1995
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
444 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"An award-winning journalist and longtime Hong Konger indelibly captures the place, its people, and the untold history they are claiming, just as it is being erased. Lim's deeply researched-and deeply personal-account casts often startling new light on key moments: the British takeover in 1842, the negotiations leading to its "return" to China in 1997, the current protests, and the future Beijing seeks to impose. Throughout, it is populated by contemporary...
Author
Publisher
Inkyard Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
270 pages, 18 unnumbered pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Moving to Hong Kong for her mother's job, Holly-Mei Jones couldn't be happier until she makes a frenemy at school and must use all of her determination, stubbornness, and sparkle to turn her life in this new city into the ultimate adventure.
11) China white
Author
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
c1994
Physical Desc
270 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the 1970s, Peter Maas stunned the American public with Serpico. Now this best-selling author has created a brilliant fictional thriller that uncovers a new underworld of international crime-ruled by the Chinese. Y.K. Deng, the ruthless mastermind of an international heroin ring, is poised to shatter the Mafia with a daring maneuver: transfer all of the assets his crime syndicates to the United States in one shipment of pure heroin.
Author
Series
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c1981
Physical Desc
1206 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Taking place over the course of an eventful week in 1963 Hong Kong, James Clavell's Noble House is a masterfully woven novel of true suspense.
Ian Dunross, the current tai-pan of the illustrious yet financially troubled Struan empire, is racing to undo the damage his predecessor left behind and to once again stand on stable ground. And he'll do whatever it takes-including striking a hard-fought deal with an American millionaire. But his rival, Quillan...
Author
Publisher
Hogarth
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
257 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
As night falls on Macau and the neon signs that line the rain-slick streets come alive, Doyle descends into his casino of choice to try his luck at the baccarat tables that are the anchor of his current existence. A corrupt English lawyer who has escaped prosecution by fleeing to the East, Doyle spends his nights drinking and gambling and his days sleeping off his excesses, continually haunted by his past. Taking refuge in a series of louche and dimly...
15) Dynasty: a novel
Author
Publisher
McGraw-Hill
Pub. Date
c1977
Physical Desc
625 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Metropolitan Books
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
302 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A riveting account, at once a reconstruction of the race to find a cure, a history of bubonic plague, and an investigation into the threat of plague today
Plague. The very word carries an unholy resonance. No other disease can claim its apocalyptic or mythological power. It can lie dormant for centuries, only to resurface with ferocious, nation-killing force. Here, with the high drama of a great adventure tale, Edward Marriott unravels the story...
Author
Series
City of dragons volume 1
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
232 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Grace moves to Hong Kong with her mom and new stepdad, her biggest concern is making friends at her fancy new boarding school. But when a mysterious old woman gifts her a dragon egg during a field trip, Grace discovers that the wonderful stories of dragons she heard when she was a young girl might actually be real--especially when the egg hatches overnight."--Provided by publisher.
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