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Dr. John Mackay arrived in Hong Kong in 1963 and has experienced in every major shift and development in the territory since then. He was for many years one of Hong Kong's most respected physicians,...

John Mackay was a well-known doctor in Hong Kong for many years, and then decided in the peak of history medical career to throw it in and travel the world instead. He set himself the goal of...

Norah, a vivacious ESL teacher in Hong Kong, deftly straddles two worlds: she is Chinese, but sees life through a western lens because of her upbringing. These two worlds collide when she meets...

Travel the trade winds from far east Indonesia to the Lion City aboard a Bugis spice ship named God Bless. A young English backpacker runs into a bunch of French adventurers on a remote Indonesian...

A photographer on an American cruise ship visited ports along China's coast in 1980 when the country was still largely stuck in Maoist isolation, and instead of photographing the passengers, he chose...

Brian McElney was born in Hong Kong in the early 1930s, and for more than two decades was one of the territory's top lawyers. But in his spare time, he also put together one of the most comprehensive...

Shanghai's Xintiandi is China's first world-class landmark urban entertainment and cultural destination and East Meets West tells the story of how it came into being, showing how urban renewal is not...

My China in Tang Poetry is a personal celebration of the genius of the Golden Age of Chinese poetry. Susan Wan Dolling, writer, teacher and storyteller provides a feast of new translations and...

Thomas Bird found himself in southern China free from any serious commitments. His rock band had just split up, he'd left his job as the editor of a lifestyle magazine and his girlfriend disappeared...

Ben Wood is a larger than life figure, an American architect who re-imagined both the heart of New York and the heart of Shanghai and in this unique memoir, he tells a thousand outrageous and...

The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, China Branch, 2022 edition. This edition includes writings from Duncan Hewitt, Paul French, Graham Earnshaw, James Carter, Jeremiah Jenne, Sven A. Serrano,...

The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, China Branch, 2023 edition. This edition includes writings from Melinda Liu, Paul French, Margaret Sun, Pierre-Henri Biger, Fiona Lindsey Shen, Dr Elizabeth...

In the 1920s, a Japanese businessman set up a bookshop in the city of Shanghai which changed the course of history by providing a forum for Chinese and Japanese intellectuals to meet and discuss the...

Traditional Chinese culture rests upon the shoulders of three great sages, Confucius, the Buddha, and Lao Tzu. The last of these is the most mysterious and least-known of the heavenly trio. Love...

Graham Earnshaw is a publisher and media businessman who has spent most of his career in the China world. But throughout, he has been writing songs, while also recording them and playing them live to...

65 x 39 = 2535 108 x 312 = 33696 27 x 84 = 2268 Can you work out these calculations in your head? Many of us would say "No way!" For anyone who reads this book and learns the tricks it contains, it...

Sensational adventure stories were all the rage in Shanghai in the early 20th century and Murder in the Maloo: A Tale of Old Shanghai represents an excellent example of this most popular of popular...

One evening in his early teens as his family sat around the dining table, Mark O'Neill's father suddenly dropped his English accent and spoke for the first time in his original and long hidden Irish...

Love and loss, revenge and regret - Peach Blossom, a best-seller in China, presents stories from the underbelly of modern urban China by acclaimed Chinese author Jin Renshun (???). A girl's vivacious...

Nicky Almasy's memoir Recycling Reality told the story of this Hungarian photographer's adventures across Asia and elsewhere through words, and Reality Recycled adds color to that story by...

An ill-fated sojourn through Tijuana, Mexico, on the way to New York City results in a sharp turn towards Asia and a rollercoaster journey through the world of photojournalism. Nicky Almasy recounts...

ZZ is an anomaly in a world of power and money. His name is Zhang Zhan, which connotes 'stretching' and 'spreading of wings', and his parents are fiercely ambitious minor party officials, climbing...

Shalama is a Russian Jewish girl, born in 1928 in the Chinese city of Harbin, whose life tracks one of the great rescues and rebirths of the 20th century - the move of Jewish people from Europe to...

First published in 1936, this remarkable guidebook explores the seamier side of Shanghai, China, in the mid-1930s. Written by two pretty, dissolute foreigners living life to the fullest and working,...

Shanghai in 1930s had a booming prostitution industry which gave the city a certain reputation across Asia, and the beautiful Australian Lorraine Murray was one of its stars - until her patron Edmund...

Following on from four years in China during the final throes of the Cultural Revolution - told in Intruder in Mao's Realm - after 1980, Richard Kirkby became a serial visitor to the country. This,...

15-year-old Emma Chan is an aspiring musician with her eyes aimed at the stars. Sure, she might not have won any notable competitions, but she isn't "bad" by any means-unless you've met her easygoing...

The Tang Dynasty (618 to 907 AD) is considered to be China's Golden Age of Poetry, and My China in Tang Poetry is a personal celebration of the genius of the Tang poets by writer, teacher and...

It is 1983 and we are in Beijing. China has just started to re-open to Western trade after the chaos of the Cultural Revolution. A young Englishman finds himself caught in a dilemma: will his desire...

The Roman empire has occupied the island of Britannia with its war elephants and legions, suppressing the local tribes. In response, a young boy is sent to Rome to infiltrate the occupying army and...