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The Piano Teacher (Hardcover)
by (shelved 89 times as hong-kong)
avg rating 3.37 — 24,300 ratings — published 2009
The Impossible City: A Hong Kong Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as hong-kong)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,566 ratings — published 2022
Gweilo: Memories of a Hong Kong Childhood (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as hong-kong)
avg rating 4.20 — 2,258 ratings — published 1997
Tai-Pan (Asian Saga, #2)
by (shelved 57 times as hong-kong)
avg rating 4.31 — 60,870 ratings — published 1966
The Borrowed (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as hong-kong)
avg rating 4.35 — 6,060 ratings — published 2014
Indelible City: Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as hong-kong)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,600 ratings — published 2022
The Painted Veil (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as hong-kong)
avg rating 3.98 — 53,640 ratings — published 1925
Exciting Times (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as hong-kong)
avg rating 3.20 — 77,873 ratings — published 2020
The Expatriates (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as hong-kong)
avg rating 3.67 — 16,743 ratings — published 2016
Noble House (Asian Saga, #5)
by (shelved 34 times as hong-kong)
avg rating 4.28 — 43,285 ratings — published 1981
City on Fire: The Fight for Hong Kong (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as hong-kong)
avg rating 4.40 — 324 ratings — published 2020
Hong Kong (Vintage Departures)
by (shelved 28 times as hong-kong)
avg rating 3.89 — 418 ratings — published 1988
Fragrant Harbor (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as hong-kong)
avg rating 3.82 — 2,291 ratings — published 2002
Second Sister (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as hong-kong)
avg rating 4.41 — 6,957 ratings — published 2017
Unfree Speech: The Threat to Global Democracy and Why We Must Act, Now (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as hong-kong)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,123 ratings — published 2020
The Hong Kong Diaries (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as hong-kong)
avg rating 4.05 — 449 ratings — published 2022
Crazy Rich Asians (Crazy Rich Asians, #1)
by (shelved 23 times as hong-kong)
avg rating 3.91 — 562,329 ratings — published 2013
Kowloon Tong (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as hong-kong)
avg rating 3.23 — 1,429 ratings — published 1997
Ghetto at the Center of the World: Chungking Mansions, Hong Kong (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as hong-kong)
avg rating 3.81 — 592 ratings — published 2011
Owlish (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as hong-kong)
avg rating 3.31 — 818 ratings — published 2020
China Rich Girlfriend (Crazy Rich Asians, #2)
by (shelved 21 times as hong-kong)
avg rating 3.84 — 233,065 ratings — published 2015
Concise History of Hong Kong, A (Critical Issues in World and International History)
by (shelved 21 times as hong-kong)
avg rating 4.22 — 316 ratings — published 2007
The Honourable Schoolboy (George Smiley, #6; Karla Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 20 times as hong-kong)
avg rating 3.99 — 27,357 ratings — published 1977
Nine Dragons (Harry Bosch, #14; Harry Bosch Universe, #21)
by (shelved 20 times as hong-kong)
avg rating 4.07 — 59,812 ratings — published 2009
The Girl with a Thousand Faces (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as hong-kong)
avg rating 4.01 — 5,793 ratings — published 2026
Love in a Fallen City (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as hong-kong)
avg rating 3.94 — 4,959 ratings — published 1943
A Modern History of Hong Kong (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as hong-kong)
avg rating 3.71 — 248 ratings — published 2003
City of Protest: A Recent History of Dissent in Hong Kong (Penguin Specials: The Hong Kong Series)
by (shelved 16 times as hong-kong)
avg rating 4.08 — 188 ratings — published 2017
No City for Slow Men: Hong Kong's quirks and quandaries laid bare (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as hong-kong)
avg rating 3.90 — 200 ratings — published 2013
Girl in Translation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as hong-kong)
avg rating 3.99 — 59,492 ratings — published 2010
A Many-Splendoured Thing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as hong-kong)
avg rating 3.84 — 600 ratings — published 1952
HONG KONG State of Mind: 37 Views of a City That Doesn't Blink (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as hong-kong)
avg rating 3.73 — 211 ratings — published 2010
Old Filth (Old Filth, #1)
by (shelved 15 times as hong-kong)
avg rating 3.95 — 20,857 ratings — published 2004
Tongueless (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 14 times as hong-kong)
avg rating 3.68 — 521 ratings — published 2019
Today Hong Kong, Tomorrow the World: what China's Crackdown Reveals about Its Plans to End Freedom Everywhere (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as hong-kong)
avg rating 4.24 — 144 ratings — published 2022
Freedom: How we lose it and how we fight back (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as hong-kong)
avg rating 4.29 — 265 ratings — published 2021
Defying the Dragon: Hong Kong and the World's Largest Dictatorship (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as hong-kong)
avg rating 4.28 — 69 ratings — published
A History of Hong Kong (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as hong-kong)
avg rating 3.54 — 111 ratings — published 1993
Hong Kong: Culture and the Politics of Disappearance (Public Worlds, #2)
by (shelved 13 times as hong-kong)
avg rating 4.24 — 89 ratings — published 1997
Mrs. Pollifax and the Hong Kong Buddha (Mrs. Pollifax, #7)
by (shelved 13 times as hong-kong)
avg rating 4.07 — 6,464 ratings — published 1985
Rebel City: Hong Kong's Year of Water and Fire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as hong-kong)
avg rating 3.83 — 72 ratings — published
Vigil: Hong Kong on the Brink (Columbia Global Reports)
by (shelved 12 times as hong-kong)
avg rating 3.91 — 220 ratings — published 2020
Umbrellas in Bloom: Hong Kong's Occupy Movement Uncovered (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as hong-kong)
avg rating 4.43 — 54 ratings — published 2016
Rich People Problems (Crazy Rich Asians, #3)
by (shelved 12 times as hong-kong)
avg rating 3.94 — 188,685 ratings — published 2017
The World of Suzie Wong (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as hong-kong)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,292 ratings — published 1957
The Man in the Wooden Hat (Old Filth, #2)
by (shelved 11 times as hong-kong)
avg rating 4.09 — 8,084 ratings — published
Ghost Girl, Banana (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as hong-kong)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,997 ratings — published 2023
On Java Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as hong-kong)
avg rating 3.66 — 1,952 ratings — published 2022
Diamond Hill (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 11 times as hong-kong)
avg rating 3.39 — 268 ratings — published
Ghost Forest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as hong-kong)
avg rating 4.13 — 5,916 ratings — published 2021
“[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
“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
