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  • Book cover image - The Hong Kong Letters

    The Hong Kong Letters

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    The Hong Kong I Knew: Scenes and Stories from a Childhood in Kowloon

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  • The Great Walk of China: Travels on foot from Shanghai to Tibet

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    The Good War of Consul Reeves

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  • Book cover image: The Girl Who Dreamed, by Sonia Leung

    The Girl Who Dreamed: A Hong Kong Memoir of Triumph Against the Odds

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    The Extraordinary Amazing Incredible Unbelievable Walled City of Kowloon

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  • Book cover image: The Evergreen Tea House, by David T. K. Wong

    The Evergreen Tea House: A Hong Kong Novel

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    The Eurasian Face

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  • The Dictionary of the Asian Language

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  • The Curious Diary of Mr Jam: Official humorist for repressive regimes

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    The Crocodile who Wanted to be Famous

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    The Cleaner: The true story of one of the world’s most successful money launderers

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  • The Chinese Wet Market Handbook: A guide to shopping at Hong Kong’s fresh food markets

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    The Chakrata Incident

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  • The Alphabet of Vietnam

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  • Thai the Knot: How to Untangle the Complexities of Cross-cultural Marriage

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  • Tales from Victoria Park: Short stories of Indonesian women in Hong Kong

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    Sustainably Stylish: A guide to curating a guilt-free wardrobe

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    Sunset Survivors: Meet the people keeping Hong Kong’s traditional industries alive

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  • Street Life Hong Kong: Outdoor workers in their own words

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    Strangers on the Praia: A Tale of Refugees and Resistance in Wartime Macao

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    Storm Whale

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    Stories from the Royal Hong Kong Police: Fifty accounts from officers of Hong Kong’s colonial-era police force

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    Spatial Cemetery: A Journey Beneath the Surface of Hidden Hong Kong

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