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A young woman in Hong Kong investigates her teenage sister's death. Gossip. Rumour. Revenge. Wun Wah Tower. Kwun Tong district, Hong Kong. When Siu-Man jumped from her window on the...

With Jason Y. Ng, introduction by Ai WeiweiThe must read book for anyone who cares about Hong Kong and democracy. At what point do you stand up to power?When he...

Inspired by an obscure Chinese custom and based on actual 21st century events, Srinath Adiga's debut novel is a current, chillingly dark satire in the mold of Brave New World...

Dispossession and Defiance in Hong KongAn award-winning journalist takes to the protest-riven streets of Hong Kong to write this startling landmark account of the island city's complex past and precarious...

Longlisted for the Women’s Prize 2023There are the goodbyes and then the fishing out of the bodies – everything in between is speculation.One night, not long after the last American...

When Ping leaves Hong Kong to live in the South Island of Aotearoa New Zealand, she discovers that life in the Land of the Long White Cloud is not the...

2021 EditionText by Miss Black CatA visual memoir like no other, Once Upon a Hong Kong is a stirring collection of personal work by artist-illustrator Don Mak that captures scenes...

Wild Swans meets Educated in this riveting true story spanning four generations 'Revelatory and remarkable' — TRENT DALTON'Memorable and vivid' — RICHARD GLOVER'Lands with a thump in your heart' —...

'Do you know what it was like here? You wouldn't believe the glamour. We had our own film studio, redbrick houses for the stars, even Jackie Chan. Now look at...

A Memoir of Socialites, Scholars and ScoundrelsTrue stories of glamour, drama, and tragedy told through five generations of a Shanghai family, from the last days of imperial rule to the...

Economic Possibilities from a Global PerspectiveHong Kong is a dynamic city. But the contrast between the well-off and the poor is stark. In the 1980s and 1990s, and to a...

A coming-of-age story about falling in and out of love, brimming with humour and heartbreak, Bellies asks — is it worth losing a part of yourself to become who you...

Translated by Natascha BruceA professor falls in love with a mechanical ballerina in a mordant and uncanny fable of contemporary Hong Kong.In the mountainous city of Nevers, there lives a...

It’s not just you.The climate crisis is making us all unwell. But not just you.The climate crisis is affecting certain communities disproportionately.And it’s not just the climate crisis… The term...

Born into the grinding poverty of peasant life in the Chinese village of Lung Sun, Ah Pah had little expectation of ever venturing far from the village. But, orphaned at...

Curated by Tina PangA journey through M+'s collection and Hong Kong's cultural spaces, telling the story of the city's past and present through its works of art and key landmarks.Key...

How to Read The Art of War As the People's Republic's seemingly inexorable rise to economic and military power continues, never has the need for a better grasp of Chinese...

Things get personal for Chinese-Norwegian modern-day ninja Lily Wong in Hong Kong when she dives into the dangerous world of triads, romance, and corporate disaster during the height of the...

A journalistic account of the abuse and enslavement of women and girls in AsiaA constant stream of impoverished women and girls have been, and are being, enslaved and abused in...

How we lose it and how we fight backThis urgent manifesto from a Nobel Peace Prize nominee argues that until all of us are free, none of us are.Nobel Peace...

My Journey from Cancer, to Near Death, to True HealingAn updated edition of the defining memoir about miraculous healing from cancer and the spiritual discoveries that followed, with a new...

A tale of a Hong Kong journalist's struggle to unravel the truth of a pro-democracy protester's suspicious death, amid the city's political turmoil and its increasingly fragile relationship with its...

Inequality, Environmental Destruction, and Imagining Poverty in the 21st CenturyA critical reflection on the power of moviemaking to shape our collective imagination of better futuresThrough a close analysis of more...

Love in the time of protests a stunning coming of age novel set in Hong Kong.It's 2019 in Hong Kong and sixteen-year-old Phoenix fears the city she calls home could...

How to Win at Life and Love as a Highly Sensitive and Emotionally Intense PersonThis is a book about being successful, fulfilled and happy in a world in which you...

Following their award-winning debut, Fleche (2019), comes Mary Jean Chan's gleaming second collection: Bright Fear. Through poems which engage fearlessly with intertwined themes of identity, multilingualism and postcolonial legacy, Chan's...

Stories from Chinese Restaurants Around the World An eye-opening and soul-nourishing journey through Chinese food around the world. *A PEOPLE MAGAZINE BEST NEW BOOK**A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITOR'S...