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  • Book cover image - Spatial Cemetery

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

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

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

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    The Tiger Hunters of Tai O

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    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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  • Book cover image: Along the Southern Boundary by Les Bird

    Along the Southern Boundary: A Marine Police Officer’s Frontline Account of the Vietnamese Boatpeople and their Arrival in Hong Kong

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    Shanghai’s Baghdadi Jews: A Collection of Biographical Reflections

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    Policing Hong Kong – An Irish History

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    Lost Hong Kong: A history in pictures

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    Trading Places: A photographic journey through China’s former Treaty Ports

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

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  • China Revisited Series (four book covers)

    China Revisited: a series bundle

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    The Last Tigers of Hong Kong: True stories of big cats that stalked Britain’s Chinese colony

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    Destination Shanghai

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    Hong Kong Volunteers in Battle: December 1941

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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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    The Peak: An Illustrated History of Hong Kong’s Top District

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  • Book cover image: The Good War of Consul Reeves, by Peter Rose

    The Good War of Consul Reeves

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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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  • Book cover image - The Tramways of Hong Kong

    The Tramways of Hong Kong: A history in pictures

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  • Book cover image - Hong Kong Confidential

    Hong Kong Confidential: Life as a Subversive

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  • Book cover image: The Hong Kong I Knew

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

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  • Book cover image: Ayo Gorkhali

    Ayo Gorkhali: The True Story of the Gurkhas

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

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    Book cover image: All The Way With Ray, by Ray Cordeiro

    All The Way With Ray: My Autobiography

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  • Book cover image: Volume 5, Old Hong Kong Photos and The Tales They Tell, by David Bellis from Gwulo

    Volume 5: Old Hong Kong Photos and The Tales They Tell

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  • Book cover image: Destination Macao, by Paul French

    Destination Macao

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  • Book cover image: Volume 2, Old Hong Kong Photos and The Tales They Tell, by David Bellis from Gwulo

    Volume 2: Old Hong Kong Photos and The Tales They Tell

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  • Book cover image: Volume 1, Old Hong Kong Photos and The Tales They Tell, by David Bellis from Gwulo

    Volume 1: Old Hong Kong Photos and The Tales They Tell

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  • Book cover image: A Danger Shared, by Melville Jacoby and Bill Lascher

    A Danger Shared: A Journalist’s Glimpses of a Continent at War

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  • Book cover image: Volume 4, Old Hong Kong Photos and The Tales They Tell, by David Bellis from Gwulo

    Volume 4: Old Hong Kong Photos and The Tales They Tell

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  • Book cover image: Volume 3, Old Hong Kong Photos and The Tales They Tell, by David Bellis from Gwulo

    Volume 3: Old Hong Kong Photos and The Tales They Tell

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  • Book cover image: Paper Horses Traditional Woodblock Prints of Gods from Northern China, by David Leffman

    Paper Horses: Traditional Woodblock Prints of Gods from Northern China

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  • Book cover image: Searching for Billie, by Ian Gill

    Searching for Billie: A journalist’s quest to understand his mother’s past leads him to discover a vanished China

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    Octopus: The Pioneering Story of the World’s First Contactless Payment Card

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  • Book cover image: LING-NAM, by Benjamin Couch 'BC' Henry

    LING-NAM: Hong Kong, Canton and Hainan Island in the 1880s

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    Farewell, My Colony: Last Days in the Life of British Hong Kong

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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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  • Explore Macau: A walking guide and history

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  • Book cover image: Love, Money and Friendships

    Love, Money and Friendships

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  • Book cover image: Roving Through Southern China, by Harry A Franck

    Roving Through Southern China: An American’s Explorations of Hong Kong, Macao and Canton in the early 1920s

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    Where Strange Gods Call: Harry Hervey’s 1920s Hong Kong, Macao and Canton Sojourns

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    The Slightest Chance

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    Wanderings in China: Hong Kong and Canton, Christmas and New Year, 1878/1879

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    Paul French’s Destination series: a book bundle

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