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Hong Kong Books
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The Piano Teacher (Hardcover)
by (shelved 88 times as hong-kong)
avg rating 3.36 — 23,520 ratings — published 2009
The Impossible City: A Hong Kong Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as hong-kong)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,400 ratings — published 2022
Gweilo: Memories of a Hong Kong Childhood (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as hong-kong)
avg rating 4.19 — 2,097 ratings — published 2004
Tai-Pan (Asian Saga, #2)
by (shelved 49 times as hong-kong)
avg rating 4.30 — 56,685 ratings — published 1966
The Borrowed (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as hong-kong)
avg rating 4.38 — 4,618 ratings — published 2014
The Expatriates (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as hong-kong)
avg rating 3.67 — 15,967 ratings — published 2016
Indelible City: Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as hong-kong)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,387 ratings — published 2022
Exciting Times (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as hong-kong)
avg rating 3.21 — 71,648 ratings — published 2020
The Painted Veil (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as hong-kong)
avg rating 3.97 — 49,434 ratings — published 1925
Noble House (Asian Saga, #5)
by (shelved 31 times as hong-kong)
avg rating 4.27 — 41,771 ratings — published 1981
City on Fire: The Fight for Hong Kong (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as hong-kong)
avg rating 4.41 — 298 ratings — published 2020
Unfree Speech: The Threat to Global Democracy and Why We Must Act, Now (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as hong-kong)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,046 ratings — published 2020
Hong Kong (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as hong-kong)
avg rating 3.90 — 392 ratings — published 1988
The Hong Kong Diaries (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as hong-kong)
avg rating 4.11 — 361 ratings — published 2022
Fragrant Harbor (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as hong-kong)
avg rating 3.81 — 2,095 ratings — published 2002
Crazy Rich Asians (Crazy Rich Asians, #1)
by (shelved 21 times as hong-kong)
avg rating 3.91 — 525,904 ratings — published 2013
City of Protest: A Recent History of Dissent in Hong Kong (Penguin Specials: The Hong Kong Series)
by (shelved 20 times as hong-kong)
avg rating 4.07 — 182 ratings — published 2017
Owlish (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as hong-kong)
avg rating 3.36 — 616 ratings — published 2020
Second Sister (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as hong-kong)
avg rating 4.42 — 5,435 ratings — published 2017
China Rich Girlfriend (Crazy Rich Asians, #2)
by (shelved 19 times as hong-kong)
avg rating 3.84 — 220,816 ratings — published 2015
The Honourable Schoolboy (George Smiley, #6; Karla Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 19 times as hong-kong)
avg rating 3.99 — 24,864 ratings — published 1977
Nine Dragons (Harry Bosch, #14; Harry Bosch Universe, #21)
by (shelved 19 times as hong-kong)
avg rating 4.05 — 54,535 ratings — published 2009
Kowloon Tong (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as hong-kong)
avg rating 3.22 — 1,341 ratings — published 1997
Ghetto at the Center of the World: Chungking Mansions, Hong Kong (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as hong-kong)
avg rating 3.82 — 529 ratings — published 2011
A Modern History of Hong Kong (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as hong-kong)
avg rating 3.70 — 225 ratings — published 2003
No City for Slow Men: Hong Kong's quirks and quandaries laid bare (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as hong-kong)
avg rating 3.92 — 186 ratings — published 2013
A Concise History of Hong Kong (Critical Issues in World and International History)
by (shelved 16 times as hong-kong)
avg rating 4.23 — 281 ratings — published 2007
Old Filth (Old Filth, #1)
by (shelved 15 times as hong-kong)
avg rating 3.94 — 19,333 ratings — published 2004
Girl in Translation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as hong-kong)
avg rating 3.99 — 57,833 ratings — published 2010
Love in a Fallen City (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as hong-kong)
avg rating 3.95 — 4,224 ratings — published 1943
HONG KONG State of Mind: 37 Views of a City That Doesn't Blink (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as hong-kong)
avg rating 3.73 — 208 ratings — published 2010
A Many-Splendoured Thing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as hong-kong)
avg rating 3.81 — 556 ratings — published 1952
Freedom: How we lose it and how we fight back (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as hong-kong)
avg rating 4.36 — 220 ratings — published 2021
Defying the Dragon: Hong Kong and the World's Largest Dictatorship (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as hong-kong)
avg rating 4.31 — 65 ratings — published
A History of Hong Kong (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as hong-kong)
avg rating 3.51 — 108 ratings — published 1993
Mrs. Pollifax and the Hong Kong Buddha (Mrs. Pollifax, #7)
by (shelved 13 times as hong-kong)
avg rating 4.07 — 5,938 ratings — published 1985
Vigil: Hong Kong on the Brink (Columbia Global Reports)
by (shelved 12 times as hong-kong)
avg rating 3.93 — 205 ratings — published 2020
Dear Hong Kong: An Elegy to a City (Penguin Specials: The Hong Kong Series)
by (shelved 12 times as hong-kong)
avg rating 3.34 — 148 ratings — published 2017
The World of Suzie Wong (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as hong-kong)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,189 ratings — published 1957
On Java Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as hong-kong)
avg rating 3.65 — 1,727 ratings — published 2022
Ghost Forest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as hong-kong)
avg rating 4.14 — 5,331 ratings — published 2021
Rebel City: Hong Kong's Year of Water and Fire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as hong-kong)
avg rating 3.80 — 66 ratings — published
Generation HK: Seeking Identity in China’s Shadow: Penguin Specials (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 11 times as hong-kong)
avg rating 3.96 — 114 ratings — published 2017
Umbrellas in Bloom: Hong Kong's Occupy Movement Uncovered (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as hong-kong)
avg rating 4.40 — 52 ratings — published 2016
Diamond Hill: Memories of growing up in a Hong Kong squatter village (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as hong-kong)
avg rating 3.72 — 87 ratings — published 2009
The Man in the Wooden Hat (Old Filth, #2)
by (shelved 10 times as hong-kong)
avg rating 4.08 — 7,541 ratings — published
Today Hong Kong, Tomorrow the World: what China's Crackdown Reveals about Its Plans to End Freedom Everywhere (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as hong-kong)
avg rating 4.26 — 127 ratings — published
Atlas: The Archaeology of an Imaginary City (Weatherhead Books on Asia)
by (shelved 10 times as hong-kong)
avg rating 3.52 — 149 ratings — published 1997
Hong Kong: Culture and the Politics of Disappearance (Volume 2) (Public Worlds)
by (shelved 10 times as hong-kong)
avg rating 4.33 — 73 ratings — published 1997
Rich People Problems (Crazy Rich Asians, #3)
by (shelved 10 times as hong-kong)
avg rating 3.95 — 178,384 ratings — published 2017
“How about this? Hong Kong had been appropriated by British drug pushers in the 1840s. We wanted Chinese silk, porcelain, and spices. The Chinese didn't want our clothes, tools, or salted herring, and who can blame them? They had no demand. Our solution was to make a demand, by getting large sections of the populace addicted to opium, a drug which the Chinese government had outlawed. When the Chinese understandably objected to this arrangement, we kicked the fuck out of them, set up a puppet government in Peking that hung signs on parks saying NO DOGS OR CHINESE, and occupied this corner of their country as an import base. Fucking godawful behavior, when you think about it. And we accuse them of xenophobia. It would be like the Colombians invading Washington in the early twenty-first century and forcing the White House to legalize heroin. And saying, "Don't worry, we'll show ourselves out, and take Florida while we're at it, okay? Thanks very much.”
― Ghostwritten
― Ghostwritten
“[Hong Kong] was indeed (in the words of the Chinese journalist Tsang Ki-fan) the only Chinese society that, for a brief span of 100 years, lived through an ideal never realized at any time in the history of Chinese society — a time when no man had to live in fear of the midnight knock on the door.”
― East and West
― East and West
