The Colour of the Sky After Rain
A multi-textured and revealing survey of the world’s largest country, as seen through one woman’s eyes, The Colour of the Sky After Rain offers a compelling portrait of China in an age of radical change, and charts the key staging posts in its recent, remarkable history.
Gurkha Odyssey: Campaigning for the Crown
It is 1814 and the Bengal Army of the Honourable East India Company is at war with a marauding Nepal. It is here that the British first encounter the martial spirit of an indomitable foe the Gurkha hillman from that mountainous independent land.
Seen through the prism of his own Regiment and service, General Duffell vividly recounts some of the history, character and spirit of these loyal and dedicated soldiers as well as his personal experience of campaigning with them.
King Hui: The man who owned all the opium in Hong Kong
Scandal and corruption, drugs and pirates, triads and flower boats; the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong and the Communist takeover of Canton. Peter Hui was there. He knew everybody and saw everything. This is the real story of Hong Kong, told with the rich flavours of the street.
East and West: China, Power and the Future of Asia
In East and West, Patten gives us an intimate portrait of the real Asia, in all its diversity, and makes a vital argument for the common interest of Eastern and Western powers.
Fragrant Harbour
The complacency of colonial life in the 1930s; the horrors of the Japanese occupation during the Second World War; the post-war boom and the handover of the city to the Chinese – all these are present in Fragrant Harbour, an epic novel of one of the world’s great cities.
Gweilo: Memories Of A Hong Kong Childhood
Martin Booth died in February 2004, shortly after finishing the book that would be his epitaph – this wonderfully remembered, beautifully told memoir of a childhood lived to the full in a far-flung outpost of the British Empire…
Canton Elegy: A Father’s Letter of Sacrifice, Survival, and Enduring Love
Canton Elegy is a love story, an adventure, and an intimate portrait of one family’s struggle to survive. Stephen Jin-Nom Lee, his beautiful wife, Belle, and their four young children, braved famine, flood, corruption, and the devastation of war, on their journey to America.
Escape from Hong Kong
On 25 December 1941, the day of Hong Kong’s surrender to the Japanese, Admiral Chan Chak – the Chinese Government’s chief agent in Hong Kong – and more than 60 Chinese, British and Danish intelligence, naval and marine personnel made a dramatic escape from the invading army.
Memoirs of Lord Sandberg, Former Chairman of HSBC
Patricia Whetnall is the editor and distributor and formerly the PA of Lord Sandberg. Direct enquiries can be made by emailing Patricia at patriciawhetnall@btconnect.com.
Beyond and Under Victoria’s Sway
The author of ‘Matilda’, the history, published in the 1980s, of the Matilda Hospital in Hong Kong, and of Matilda Sharp to whom the hospital was dedicated, Joyce Stevens Smith was a sister in the hospital for many years. She has now written a fascinating book which focuses more on the lives of Matilda and Granville Sharp.
Paper Tigress - A Life in Hong Kong Government
Rachel Cartland came to Hong Kong in 1972 as one of just two female expatriates in the Hong Kong Government’s elite administrative grade. Paper Tigress is full of humour and incident and, at the same time, an accessible account of modern Hong Kong and the forces that shaped it.
Hong Kong Internment, 1942-1945: Life in the Japanese Civilian Camp at Stanley
Hong Kong Internment, 1942–1945: Life in the Japanese Civilian Camp at Stanley tells the story of the more than three thousand non-Chinese civilians: British, American, Dutch and others, who were trapped in the British colony and interned behind barbed wire in Stanley Internment Camp from 1942 to 1945.
Free Trade’s First Missionary: Sir John Bowring in Europe and Asia
Reformer, intellectual, colonial governor, Sir John Bowring (1792–1872) was the archetype of the ambitious men who made Britain the leading global power in the 19th century. This book brings his life and disparate achievements together, with a particular emphasis on his role in promoting free trade and his much criticized career in Asia.
The Queen of Statue Square: New Short Fiction from Hong Kong
What does it mean to be a ‘Hong Kong person’? In this collection of short stories, eight writers explore the question of what it means to be in, from, and of the Hong Kong of the past, the present, and the future.
Through the Dragon’s Gate
Jean O’Hara is now a prominent psychiatrist in London, but she grew up in a humble tenement flat in Hong Kong in the 1960s, the daughter of an Anglo-Burmese librarian (later a senior civil servant) and his Chinese wife. This book is her account of a childhood steeped in the culture of China, and first steps in a career in medicine.
The Survivors: A Period Piece
This is not a history book. It is a personal family memoir illustrated by seventy period photographs, most of which have never before been published. It is about the author’s parents, Tim and Margery Fortescue, a young British couple from privileged but very different backgrounds who, soon after meeting at Cambridge University, become caught up in turbulent events on the other side of the world during the Second World War.
Hong Kong Police: Inside the Lines
Hong Kong – a Chinese city with British-based law, a unique place with a unique police force. In his latest book, Chris Emmett, best-selling author of “Hong Kong Policeman,” puts you on the streets, alongside the Hong Kong police officers who were there during the greatest crises of the past few decades.
Journeys with a Mission: Travel Journals of The Right Revd George Smith (1815-1871), first Bishop of Victoria, Hong Kong (1849-1865)
JOURNEYS WITH A MISSION contains annotated uncut transcriptions from archival material of five original narratives or journals of travel, covering visits to China, India, Ceylon, Java and Singapore during the interesting period 1852-1858, undertaken by the Right Revd George Smith, first (Anglican) Bishop of Victoria (Hong Kong).
A Faithful Record of the Lisbon Maru Incident
A FAITHFUL RECORD OF THE LISBON MARU INCIDENT is a recent translation from an original Chinese publication covering an important chapter in Hong Kong’s wartime history. It gives details of the Lisbon Maru Incident of 1942, seen through the eyes of the Chinese fishermen who rescued hundreds of British prisoners of war from Hong Kong, whose ship had been torpedoed.
Understanding Corporate Governance in China
China has traveled a unique road to reach its present economic significance in the world with corporate governance central to political and economic policy. In Understanding Corporate Governance in China, Bob Tricker and Gregg Li look at a variety of companies in China and the challenges they face.