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Lonely Planet Hong Kong & Macau City Guide

by Nicko Goncharoff | Damian Harper

• GUIDEBOOK
• 2009
• PAPER
• 380 PAGES

A practical guide to Hong Kong. (HKG14, $21.99)

Culture Smart! Hong Kong

by Clare Vickers

• GUIDEBOOK
• 2004
• PAPER
• 168 PAGES

A concise, well-illustrated and practical guide to local customs, etiquette and culture. (HKG24, $9.95)

Hong Kong

by Jan Morris

• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
• 1997
• PAPER
• 384 PAGES
• FAVORITE

A wonderful portrait of Hong Kong by one of our favorite writers. Morris enumerates the many personal pleasures of the city, deftly interweaving reportage, history and culture. (HKG02, $17.00)

Hong Kong Map

by Nelles

• MAP

A detailed, colorful folded map of Hong Kong, scale 1:22,500. (HKG15, $13.95)

 

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Fodor's Hong Kong's 25 Best

by Fodor's

• GUIDEBOOK
• 2009
• PAPER
• 128 PAGES

A handy shirt-pocket guide and map. (HKG09, $11.99)

Fodor's Hong Kong, With Macau and the South China Cities

by Fodor's Guides

• GUIDEBOOK
• 2011
• PAPER
• 352 PAGES

A practical guide in the popular series, filled with valuable information on accommodation, shopping, sights, and dining. (HKG38, $21.99)

Lonely Planet Cantonese Phrasebook

by Kam Y. Lau

• LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS
• 2008
• PAPER
• 260 PAGES

A palm-sized handy guide to pronunciation, basic grammar and essential vocabulary for the traveler. (HKG19, $8.99)

Lonely Planet Hong Kong Encounter

by Steve Fallon

• GUIDEBOOK
• 2011
• PAPER
• 208 PAGES

This lively shirt pocket guide to the city, jammed with personal recommendations and photographs, also includes a pull-out map. (HKG33, $12.99)

National Geographic Hong Kong

by Phil Macdonald

• GUIDEBOOK
• 2009
• PAPER
• 272 PAGES

A compact guide featuring National Geographic's usual attention to maps and color photography. (HKG37, $22.95)

Pocket Rough Guide Hong Kong

by Rough Guides

• GUIDEBOOK
• 2012
• PAPER
• 160 PAGES

By the savvy editors at Rough Guide, these just-right guides are bundled with a pullout map. (HKG43, $12.99)

City Between Worlds, My Hong Kong

by Leo Ou-Fan Lee

• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
• 2010
• PAPER
• 322 PAGES

Lee draws on his experience of Hong Kong as well as literature, film and popular culture. The result is a multi-layered portrait of a city on the fault line between China and the West. (HKG35, $18.95)

Hong Kong, A Cultural History

by Michael Ingham

• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
• 2007
• PAPER
• 256 PAGES

Beneath the surface of Hong Kong's cliched self-image as Pearl of the Orient and Shopping Paradise, Michael Ingham reveals a city rich in history, myth, and cultural diversity. (HKG29, $19.99)

Understanding China

by John Bryan Starr

• HISTORY
• 2010
• PAPER
• 400 PAGES

The Yale professor brings us up to date in this third edition of his succinct and refreshingly forthright best-selling guide to China's economy, history and politics. (CHN196, $17.95)

Golden Boy, Memories of a Hong Kong Childhood

by Martin Booth

• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
• 2006
• PAPER
• 337 PAGES

Booth writes with warmth of his youthful rambles in this sharp-eyed, affectionate memoir of coming of age in colonial Hong Kong. The book is a portrait of place, of a lost time, and most especially of his friends and family. (HKG23, $17.00)

Outposts, Journeys to the Surviving Relics of the British Empire

by Simon Winchester

• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
• 2004
• PAPER
• 362 PAGES

Winchester's fascinating, globe-trotting account of scattered, mostly oceanic, outposts of the British Empire shows his usual flair for anecdote in describing Hong Kong, Diego Garcia, Tristan de Cunha, St. Helena, As-cension, Pitcairn, Antarctica and the Falkland Islands. (GBR569, $13.99)

Flashman and the Dragon

by George MacDonald Fraser

• LITERATURE
• 1995
• PAPER
• 320 PAGES

The eighth entry in Fraser's popular series of 19th-century adventures starring Harry Flashman, the womanizing rogue and international troublemaker, set in 1860s China. In this installment, our reluctant hero is hoodwinked into joining the Teiping Rebellion, participates in the Seige of Nanking and ends up as a plaything of the Dowager Empress at the Summer Palace. (CHN116, $15.00)

Fragrant Harbor

by John Lanchester

• LITERATURE
• 2003
• PAPER
• 352 PAGES

Lanchester, in this satisfying novel of Hong Kong, spins an atmospheric tale of the city in the 1930s and 1940s bracketed by a parallell tale of business dealings, power and greed in the 1990s. (CHN266, $15.00)

Kowloon Tong, A Novel of Hong Kong

by Paul Theroux

• LITERATURE
• 1998
• PAPER
• 248 PAGES

With its strong sense of place and contemporary setting in Hong Kong at a time of transition, this fast-paced novel is an illuminating and imaginative look at the city. (HKG12, $15.95)

Mrs. Pollifax and the Hong Kong Buddha

by Dorothy Gilman

• MYSTERY
• 1988
• PAPER

Grandma Pollifax, the CIA agent, is at it again, hot on the trail of jewel thieves, drug dealers and murderers in the city of Hong Kong. Part of the popular series, this mystery is great fun. (HKG17, $6.99)

Noble House

by James Clavell

• LITERATURE
• 2009
• PAPER
• 1376 PAGES

Another Clavell novel set in Asia, this one finds Russian, Chinese and English businessmen and intelligence agents caught up in a struggle to control the largest trading house in 1960s Hong Kong. (HKG16, $18.00)

Tai-Pan

by James Clavell

• LITERATURE
• 2009
• PAPER
• 736 PAGES

Another volume in Clavell's well known Asia series, this book focuses on Hong Kong and its most powerful trading company. Tai-pans were the Hong Kong-based resident managers of the China/India trade. (ASA04, $16.00)

The Honourable Schoolboy

by John Le Carre

• LITERATURE
• 2011
• PAPER
• 608 PAGES

Le Carre at his best, with British Secret Service agent George Smiley at work among the backstreets of Hong Kong, and across Asia. A riveting cold war spy story that is suffused in Hong Kong atmosphere. (HKG01, $16.00)

The Last Six Million Seconds

by John Burdett

• MYSTERY
• 2012
• PAPER
• 385 PAGES
• COMING IN MAY

Author of the popular Bangkok detective series, Burdett shifts his focus to Hong Kong this time, and the eve of the British handover to the Chinese in 1997, for this subtle, carefully plotted thriller (HKG44, $15.00)

The Piano Teacher

by Janice Y. K. Lee

• LITERATURE
• 2009
• PAPER
• 328 PAGES

This gripping tale of love and betrayal evokes the life and culture of Hong Kong from 1942, on the eve of the Japanese invasion, through the 1950s. (CHN606, $15.00)

The Train to Lo Wu

by Jess Row

• LITERATURE
• 2006
• PAPER
• 190 PAGES

The Hong Kong of Jess Row's remarkable debut collection is "a city that can be like a mirage, hovering above the ground: skyscrapers built on mountainsides, islands swallowed in fog for days." (HKG36, $14.00)

Chungking Express

by Kar Wong

• 2004
• DVD

In Wong Kar-wai's intoxicating film two intertwined tales take place inside a high-rise shopping center in downtown Hong Kong: a policeman falls in love with a snack bar waitress while a house detective gets involved with a female drug dealer. (CHN573, $9.99)

In the Mood for Love

by Kar Wong

• 2002
• DVD

Wong Kar-wai's delicately mannered, gorgeous tale unfolds in an apartment building in Hong Kong. (CHN574, $39.95)

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