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    Book cover image - Sunset Survivors

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

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  • Book cover image - Tin Hats and Rice

    Tin Hats and Rice: A Diary of Life as a Hong Kong Prisoner of War, 1941-1945

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  • Book cover image: "When 'Jesus' Came to Hong Kong" by Derek Currie

    When ‘Jesus’ Came to Hong Kong: The remarkable story of the first European football star in Asia

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    The Mercenary Mandarin: How a British adventurer became a general in Qing-dynasty China

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    It Won’t Be Long Now: The Diary of a Hong Kong Prisoner of War

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    Book cover image - Sheriff of Wan Chai

    Sheriff of Wan Chai: How an Englishman helped govern Hong Kong in its last decades as a British colony

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  • Book cover image: Destination Peking

    Destination Peking

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    Shanghai’s Baghdadi Jews: A Collection of Biographical Reflections

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  • Book cover image - Policing Hong Kong - An Irish History

    Policing Hong Kong – An Irish History

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  • 詠春善戰者–葉問的私徒

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  • Book cover image - Hong Kong on the Brink

    Hong Kong on the Brink: An American diplomat relives 1967’s darkest days

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  • Book cover image - Other Voices, Other Eyes

    Other Voices, Other Eyes: Expatriate Lives in Hong Kong

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  • Book cover image - Destination Shanghai

    Destination Shanghai

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

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  • Paper Tigress: A life in the Hong Kong government

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  • Diamond Hill: Memories of growing up in a Hong Kong squatter village

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  • Hong Kong Beat: True Stories From One of the Last British Police Officers in Colonial Hong Kong

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  • Paul’s Records: How a refugee from the Vietnam War found success selling vinyl on the streets of Hong Kong

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  • Book cover image: Women, Crime and the Courts, Hong Kong 1841-1941

    Women, Crime and the Courts: Hong Kong 1841-1941

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  • Master of None: How a Hong Kong high-flyer overcame the devastating experience of imprisonment

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  • Walking the Tycoons’ Rope: How ambition drove a poor boy from Ningbo to compete with the richest men of Hong Kong and Singapore

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  • Book cover image - Hong Kong Confidential

    Hong Kong Confidential: Life as a Subversive

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

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  • Book cover image: Destination Macao, by Paul French

    Destination Macao

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    Ayo Gorkhali: The True Story of the Gurkhas

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