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Very Hong Kong was jointly published by the Hong Kong Design Centre (HKDC) and the Hong Kong Trade Development Council. This volume, edited by a British professor teaching at the School of Design, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, consists of 87 design cases from in-house designers, design consultants, design entrepreneurs, brands and systems, and overseas...
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Lost in Hong Kong follows a young boy, Tim Chan, as he chases his mischievous dog across the city, from Hong Kong Park to Sai Kung. It is a light-hearted celebration of Hong Kong's diversity, its amazing transport system, and the kindness of strangers.
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Wheel Away Disabled Travel - Hong Kong City Guide is a travel guide about one of the most exciting cities in Asia, Hong Kong.
It contains practical information about getting around Hong Kong, and is not only for people with disability, but also for seniors and families with children in strollers who struggle to find a straight forward way around.
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Vivid Hong Kong is an intensely colourful and kinetic look at daily life in Hong Kong, as captured on an iPhone camera. To create this pioneering collection, photographer Palani Mohan roamed the streets in all weathers and seasons to compile a serendipitous take on the city. By forgoing traditional photographic equipment in favour of an iPhone, Mohan was able to wend...
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In 1862 the first Consul of France in Hong Kong was appointed. 150 years later, Hong Kong is home to more than 15 000 French people, 700 French companies and hosts one of the largest French arts festivals in Asia. The French art de vivre finds a strong echo among Hong Kong people.
Hong Kong has aroused admiration ever since it took a run up in the nineteenth...
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From a writer whose body of work witnesses her love affair with Hong Kong comes a highly personal narrative that unravels her recently finalized decision to leave the city for good. Xu Xi explores her tumultuous relationship with Hong Kong, her personal frustrations with how the city has developed in the recent past, and how these changes have informed her decision...
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What does it mean to be a ‘Hong Kong person’? Hong Kong has never been an independent state, nor has it completely reverted to mainland Chinese control. Once a British colony, now a semi-autonomous Special Administrative Region of China, Hong Kong is something of a mystery even to itself. Although it has long had a majority Cantonese Chinese population, the...
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Measurement: Sketches from Hong Kong probes into the different ways we measure our lives, examining not only the days and hours that pass, but the distances across countries, oceans and continents and the smaller moments in between.
From a right-angled triangle to a tall nose, from a break-up that never seems final to the last seven days of bachelorhood,...
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Underground Front is a pioneering examination of the role that the Chinese Communist Party has played in Hong Kong since the creation of the Party in 1921, through to the present day. This book brings events right up to date and includes the results of a survey about the Hong Kong public’s attitude towards the CCP. The numerous appendices on the key targets of the...
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Mike Smith’s first book of his Hong Kong trilogy, In the Shadow of the Noonday Gun, takes the reader on an entertaining and revealing journey through the Hong Kong of the 1970s to the recent present. This collection of short stories looks at life, high society, crime and the back rooms of big business during Hong Kong’s final days as a British colony on the...
