Tea Before the Rain

By Paul Loong

For better or worse, Hong Kong is not the place it used to be. The book is about what Hong Kong was like before a series of decisive events changed the former British colony, once a cosmopolitan city where East met West freely. The pomp and pageantry of the 1997 handover was only the first act of a theatrical drama that now seems fanciful in the post-2019 reality. This book is a first-person account of the day when History came calling on Hong Kong. "The best non-fiction books combine the epic and the personal," Canadian author Gordon Pitts writes in a review of Tea Before the Rain in May 2020. "Read this book to understand what Hong Kong is today."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1999417321
• ISBN13: 9781999417321
• Release Date: February 2019
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 242 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"