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Backstage in Hong Kong: A life with the Philharmonic, Broadway musicals and classical superstars

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

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

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

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China Revisited: a series bundle

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

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

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

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

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

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

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All The Way With Ray: My Autobiography

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Love, Money and Friendships

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Drawing on the Inside: Kowloon Walled City 1985

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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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Why Your CEO Failed in China: True tales of how not to do business in the People’s Republic

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A Small Band of Men: An Englishman’s Adventures in the Hong Kong Marine Police

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Designing a Life: A Cross-Cultural Journey

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Forty Nights (Eating Smoke #2)

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The Hong Kong Letters

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Great Leaps: Finding home in a changing China

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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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Hong Kong Confidential: Life as a Subversive

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

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Confessions of a Hong Kong Naturalist

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

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Dateline Mongolia: An American journalist in nomad’s land

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

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

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Remembering Bruce Lee: And Jon Benn’s Other Adventures

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The Taste of Old Hong Kong: Recipes and memories from 30 years on the China coast

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Paper Tigress: A life in the Hong Kong government

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My Private China

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

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Don’t Joke on the Stairs: How I learnt to navigate China by breaking most of the rules

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

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

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

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

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

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No Minister & No, Minister: The True Story of HarbourFest

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

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