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    Book cover image: Women, Crime and the Courts, Hong Kong 1841-1941
    Women, Crime and the Courts: Hong Kong 1841-19411 x HK$148.00
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    Sunset Survivors: Meet the people keeping Hong Kong's traditional industries alive1 x HK$288.00
    Master of None: How a Hong Kong high-flyer overcame the devastating experience of imprisonment1 x HK$138.00
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  • Book bundle image: the Destination series by Paul French

    Paul French’s Destination series: a book bundle

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  • Book cover image: Backstage in Hong Kong: A life with the Philharmonic, Broadway musicals and classical superstars, by John Duffus

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

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  • Book cover image: The Girl Who Dreamed, by Sonia Leung

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

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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: 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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  • 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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  • China Revisited Series (four book covers)

    China Revisited: a series bundle

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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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  • Book cover image: Wanderings in China, by Constance Gordon-Cumming

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

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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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  • 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: Chinese Gods

    Chinese Gods: An introduction to Chinese folk religion

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  • Book cover image: Love, Money and Friendships

    Love, Money and Friendships

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  • Book cover image: Destination Peking

    Destination Peking

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  • Book cover image: Why Your CEO Failed in China

    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: Strangers on the Praia

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

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    Book cover image: Trading Places

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

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  • Book cover image: Great Leaps, by Colin Flahive

    Great Leaps: Finding home in a changing China

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  • Book cover image - Chinese Street Food

    Chinese Street Food: A Field Guide for the Adventurous Diner

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  • The Dictionary of the Asian Language

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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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  • Getting Along with the Chinese: For Fun and Profit

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  • mercenary_mandarin

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

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  • South China Morning Blues

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    Shanghai’s Baghdadi Jews: A Collection of Biographical Reflections

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