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    Book cover image: Great Leaps, by Colin Flahive
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    The Mercenary Mandarin: How a British adventurer became a general in Qing-dynasty China

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

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    Destination Peking

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    Shanghai’s Baghdadi Jews: A Collection of Biographical Reflections

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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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    Chinese Gods: An introduction to Chinese folk religion

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

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

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

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

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    Paper Horses: Traditional Woodblock Prints of Gods from Northern China

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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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  • The Yunnan Cookbook: Recipes from China’s land of ethnic diversity

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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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    Chinese Street Food: A Field Guide for the Adventurous Diner

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  • Getting Along with the Chinese: For Fun and Profit

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

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    Love, Money and Friendships

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  • The Dictionary of the Asian Language

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