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- Location(s): Hong Kong
- Genre(s): Children
On a restaurant on a boat, in faraway Hong Kong, lives a little mouse. This enchanting story tells of his adventures when, one New Year’s night, he magics a carved wooden dragon into life and together they fly through...
Country Driving: A Chinese Road Trip
- Location(s): China
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Modern
In his hire car from Beijing, on the understanding he will not leave the city, he gets as far as Mongolia. This is the book of his observations, his understanding of the political system and what he observes and...
- Location(s): Glasgow, Shanghai
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1920s
Lily Crawford and Jeanie Taylor, from very different backgrounds, are firm friends from their childhoods in Kirkcudbright. They share their ambitions for their futures, Lily to be an artist, Jeanie to be a dancer. The two women’s eventful lives...
- Location(s): Shanghai
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): 1920s
Shanghai, 1928. The body of a blonde is washed up on the Beach of Dead Babies, in the heart of the smog-filled city. Seemingly a suicide, a closer inspection reveals a darker motive: the corpse has been weighed down, it’s...
- Location(s): Shanghai
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
In this stunning new novel, the award-winning Tash Aw charts the overlapping lives of migrant Malaysian workers, forging lives for themselves in sprawling Shanghai. Justin is from a family of successful property developers. Phoebe has come to China buoyed...
- Location(s): Beijing (Peking)
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 2000s
Hoping to improve her Chinese and broaden her cultural horizons, Rachel DeWoskin went to work for an American PR firm in China. Before she knew it, she was not just exploring, but making Chinese culture, as the sexy and...
- Location(s): Hong Kong
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1930s onwards
In Fragrant Harbour much of the story is told in the words of Tom Stewart, a young Englishman who sails to Hong Kong in the 1930s and ends up spending the rest of his long life there. The voice...
- Location(s): China, South East Asia
- Genre(s): Food and Drink, Travelogue
- Era(s): Late 2000s
We buy food we can point to. We stalk the streets until rush hour and wait for the little hatches to open in the sides of restaurants. From the steamy openings, cooks in overalls sell jiaozi (dumplings) and bowls...
- Location(s): Hong Kong
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Mid 1900s
An inquisitive seven-year-old, Martin Booth found himself with the whole of Hong Kong at his feet when his father was posted there in the early 1950s. Unrestricted by parental control and blessed with bright blond hair that signified good...
- Location(s): China
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Modern
The story of one family’s culture shock, as they settle to a new life in China. If you are relocating, or want greater understanding, or retrospectively want to capture time you have spent there, then this is definitely a...
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