Hong Kong

By Jan Morris

Book Overview

Combining firsthand reportage with exemplary research, Morris takes readers from Hong Kong's clamorous back alleys to the luxurious Happy Valley racecourse, where taipans place their bets between sips of champagne and bird's nest soup. Morris chronicles the exploits of traders, pirates, colonists, financiers, and shows how their descendants view the prospect of reunification with the Chinese mainland. What emerges is an epic tableau, vastly informed and pungently evocative.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0394550978
• ISBN13: 9780394550978
• Release Date: December 1988
• Publisher: Random House
• Length: 359 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.5" x 9.4"