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  • King Hui: The Man Who Owned All the Opium in Hong Kong

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  • With Bare Hands: The true story of Alain Robert, the real-life Spiderman

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  • Wing Chun Warrior: The True Tales of Kung Fu Master Duncan Leung, Bruce Lee’s Fighting Companion

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  • 詠春善戰者–葉問的私徒

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  • Book cover image: Tell Me A Story, by Kevin Sinclair

    Tell Me a Story: Forty Years of Newspapering in Hong Kong and China

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

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    The Eurasian Face

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  • Wordjazz for Stevie: How a profoundly handicapped girl gave her father the gifts of pain and love

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  • Lama of the Gobi: How Mongolia’s mystic monk spread Tibetan Buddhism in the world’s harshest desert

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  • Waiting for the Dalai Lama: Stories from all sides of the Tibetan debate

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  • Dragon Bones: Two Years Beneath the Skin of a Himalayan Kingdom

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  • Eating Smoke: One man’s descent into drug psychosis in Hong Kong’s triad heartland

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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: Firelight of a Different Colour - The Life and Times of Leslie Cheung Kwok-Wing, by Nigel Collett

    Firelight of a Different Colour: The Life and Times of Leslie Cheung Kwok-Wing

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  • Paper Tigress: A life in the Hong Kong government

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  • Remembering Bruce Lee: And Jon Benn’s Other Adventures

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

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  • Year of Fire Dragons: An American Woman’s Story of Coming of Age in Hong Kong

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    Shanghai’s Baghdadi Jews: A Collection of Biographical Reflections

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

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  • Book cover image: The Mercenary Mandarin, by David Leffman

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

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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 - Dateline Mongolia

    Dateline Mongolia: An American journalist in nomad’s land

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