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

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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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  • Book cover image: Where Strange Gods Call, by Harry Hervey

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

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

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

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

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  • Book cover image: Stories from the Royal Hong Kong Police

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

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

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

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

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    Love, Money and Friendships

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