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font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-weight: bold;"></span><span style="background: transparent none repeat 0% 0% scroll; font-family: arial,sans-serif; height: 10px; width: 92px;"></span></font></b><span style="color: #7c7759; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 19px; font-weight: bold;">Blacksmith Books, Hong Kong</span></td> <td align="left" bgcolor="#f4f4df" valign="top" width="124"> <span style="color: #7c7759; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold;"><br /> Newsletter</span><br /> <span style="color: #d49100; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><br /> August 2015</span></td> <td align="left" bgcolor="#ffffff" valign="top" width="1"> <img decoding="async" src="https://app.streamsend.com/images/templates/1051/spacer.gif" alt="" style="display: block;" height="1" width="1" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="5" align="left" bgcolor="#ffffff" valign="top"> <img decoding="async" src="https://app.streamsend.com/images/templates/1051/spacer.gif" alt="" style="display: block;" height="2" width="1" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="5" align="left" bgcolor="#f6e8c9" valign="top"> <img decoding="async" src="https://app.streamsend.com/images/templates/1051/spacer.gif" alt="" style="display: block;" height="1" width="1" /></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="550"> <tbody> <tr> <td> <div data-type="region"> <div style="" data-type="block"> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td colspan="2" align="left" height="24" valign="top"> <span style="color: #dcab39; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 19px; font-weight: bold;"><br /> </span><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 19px; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 19px; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><font size="4">New biography: <span style="color: #274e13;">Shanghai’s Baghdadi Jews</span></font></span></span><span style="color: #38761d;"><font face="Arial"><b><span lang="en-au"><font size="4"><font face="Arial"><b><span lang="en-au"><font size="4"><br /> </font></span><br /> </b></font></font></span></b></font></span></span></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" align="left" height="10" valign="top"> <img decoding="async" src="https://app.streamsend.com/images/templates/1051/divider.gif" alt="" style="display: block;" height="2" width="534" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px;" align="left" valign="top"> <div> <table class="text-left-table" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" align="left" style="border-collapse: collapse; mso-table-lspace: 0; mso-table-rspace: 0;" width="354"> <tr> <td valign="top" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: 20px;"> <a href="https://www.blacksmithbooks.com/books/shanghais-baghdadi-jews/">Shanghai’s Baghdadi Jews: A Collection of Biographical Reflections</a>A compilation of 26 biographical accounts from the entire spectrum of Shanghai’s Baghdadi Jewish society offers fresh insights into a remarkable community that lived through the crossroads of China’s 20th-century history.</p> <p>Using previously unseen diaries and archival material, <i>Shanghai’s Baghdadi Jews</i> documents the rise and fall of larger-than-life personalities who witnessed the Sino-Japanese War, the Occupation of Shanghai and the Communist Party’s rise to power. Photographs illustrate the life and times of these individuals and the magnificent, cosmopolitan city they called home.</p> <p><b>Look inside this book! </b>Click on the following links to view sample pages from <i>Shanghai’s Baghdadi Jews</i>.<br /> 1. Foreword 2. Sample photo pages </p> <p>Or read the <a href="http://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/books/article/1849171/26-family-stories-tell-history-shanghais-jewish-community">SCMP review and photo story</a>.</td> </tr> </table> <table class="text-right-table" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" align="right" style="border-collapse: collapse; mso-table-lspace: 0; mso-table-rspace: 0;" width="180"> <tr> <td valign="top" style="width: 1px;"><a target="_blank" href="https://www.blacksmithbooks.com/books/shanghais-baghdadi-jews/" rel="noopener noreferrer"><img decoding="async" src="https://production-streamsend.ezpublishing.netdna-cdn.com/assets/330259/images/Shanghais_Baghdadi_Jews_em-20500f86cea5f58cf51b11a8626eddb2.jpg" border="0" class="" style="display: block;" width="180" height="180" /></a></td> </tr> </table> <div style="clear: both;"></div> </div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top" width="273"> <img decoding="async" src="https://app.streamsend.com/images/templates/1051/spacer.gif" alt="" style="display: block;" height="29" width="1" /></td> <td align="left" valign="top" width="277"></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> <div style="" data-type="block"> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td colspan="2" align="left" height="24" valign="top"> <span style="color: #dcab39; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 19px; font-weight: bold;"><br /> </span><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 19px; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 19px; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 19px; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><font size="4">New fiction: <span style="color: #274e13;">Tales from Victoria Park</span></font></span></span><span style="color: #38761d;"><font face="Arial"><b><span lang="en-au"><font size="4"><font face="Arial"><b><span lang="en-au"></span></b></font></font></span></b></font></span></span></span><span style="color: #38761d;"><font face="Arial"><b><span lang="en-au"><font size="4"><font face="Arial"><b><span lang="en-au"><font size="4"><br /> </font></span><br /> </b></font></font></span></b></font></span></span></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" align="left" height="10" valign="top"> <img decoding="async" src="https://app.streamsend.com/images/templates/1051/divider.gif" alt="" style="display: block;" height="2" width="534" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px;" align="left" valign="top"> <div> <table class="text-left-table" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" align="left" style="border-collapse: collapse; mso-table-lspace: 0; mso-table-rspace: 0;" width="354"> <tr> <td valign="top" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: 20px;"> <a href="https://www.blacksmithbooks.com/books/tales-from-victoria-park-short-stories-of-indonesian-women-in-hong-kong/">Tales from Victoria Park: Short stories of Indonesian women in Hong Kong</a></p> <div class="post-content" itemprop="description"> <p><span lang="en-GB">Victoria Park, the largest expanse of open space<br /> in Hong Kong, is the crossroads and away home for thousands of Muslim<br /> women who come from Indonesia to find their fortunes, or at least<br /> support their families, in the teeming Chinese city. Most come initially<br /> as domestic helpers, but some lose their employers and descend into the<br /> netherworld of overstayers, illegal street hawkers and disco “PR” girls.<br /> Whoever they are, they all know Dina: a woman who sells phonecards,<br /> changes money, dispenses advice and listens to their tales of exile.</span></p> <p>From the comic to the bizarre to the heart-breaking, these<br /> cross-cultural tales build on a sensual<br /> evocation of place and character.</p> <p>Thanks to <a href="http://hongkong.coconuts.co/2015/07/30/tales-victoria-park-new-novel-based-lives-hong-kongs-foreign-domestic-workers">Coconuts Hong Kong</a> for a pre-publication blurb!</p> </div> <p> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="text-right-table" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" align="right" style="border-collapse: collapse; mso-table-lspace: 0; mso-table-rspace: 0;" width="180"> <tr> <td valign="top" style="width: 1px;"><a target="_blank" href="https://www.blacksmithbooks.com/books/tales-from-victoria-park-short-stories-of-indonesian-women-in-hong-kong/" rel="noopener noreferrer"><img decoding="async" src="https://production-streamsend.ezpublishing.netdna-cdn.com/assets/330259/images/Tales_from_Victoria_Park_em-a15696cf9880a001d89bc115bb156b88.jpg" border="0" class="" style="display: block;" width="180" height="276" /></a></td> </tr> </table> <div style="clear: both;"></div> </div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top" width="273"> <img decoding="async" src="https://app.streamsend.com/images/templates/1051/spacer.gif" alt="" style="display: block;" height="29" width="1" /></td> <td align="left" valign="top" width="277"></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> <div style="" data-type="block"> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td colspan="2" align="left" height="24" valign="top"> <span style="color: #dcab39; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 19px; font-weight: bold;"><br /> </span><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 19px; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 19px; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 19px; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><font size="4">New premise<font face="Arial">s for Blacksmith Books</font></font></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #38761d;"><font face="Arial"><b><span lang="en-au"><font size="4"><font face="Arial"><b><span lang="en-au"><font size="4"><br /> </font></span><br /> </b></font></font></span></b></font></span></span></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" align="left" height="10" valign="top"> <img decoding="async" src="https://app.streamsend.com/images/templates/1051/divider.gif" alt="" style="display: block;" height="2" width="534" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px;" align="left" valign="top"> <div> <table class="text-left-table" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" align="left" style="border-collapse: collapse; mso-table-lspace: 0; mso-table-rspace: 0;" width="354"> <tr> <td valign="top" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: 20px;">April 2015 brought a surprise: our landlord of 10 years presented us with a 60% rent rise on our ancient walk-up office on Hollywood Road. It was impossible to meet the new figure so we had to commence a search for new premises away from the madness of Central District prices.</p> <p>Happily we have found a sunny unit in a building in Fo Tan in the New Territories, an area of former industrial buildings which is becoming popular with artists, musicians and even organic gardeners who appreciate the larger spaces and lower costs. The new building has proper cargo lifts so we’ve also moved our separate warehouse into the new space (see action shot of us building shelves), so it’s a much more efficient place to work from. We should have done this years ago. 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It couldn’t be done. We were fools to even try! But to prove them wrong and celebrate all the above, we have finally redesigned our website.</p> <p>No longer does a visit to <a href="https://www.blacksmithbooks.com/">www.blacksmithbooks.com</a> evoke memories of 1980s video games. The original website was built by a team of white-coated boffins working on mainframes, or at least it looked like it was. Now, it’s a swish affair which lets you sort books by category and country. Pictures are bigger, it’s responsive to different screen sizes, and it’s easier for us to post blog entries.</p> <p>Please <a href="https://www.blacksmithbooks.com/">take a look!</a> There are PDF excerpts of almost all our books, so have a read.</td> </tr> </table> <table class="text-right-table" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" align="right" style="border-collapse: collapse; mso-table-lspace: 0; mso-table-rspace: 0;" width="180"> <tr> <td valign="top" style="width: 1px;"><a target="_blank" href="https://www.blacksmithbooks.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer"><img decoding="async" src="https://production-streamsend.ezpublishing.netdna-cdn.com/assets/330259/images/website-em-6c7cf0cffb4cb16e2d5e5a9e010798f4.jpg" border="0" class="" style="display: block;" width="180" height="125" /></a></td> </tr> </table> <div style="clear: both;"></div> </div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top" width="273"> <img decoding="async" src="https://app.streamsend.com/images/templates/1051/spacer.gif" alt="" style="display: block;" height="29" width="1" /></td> <td align="left" valign="top" width="277"></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> <div style="" data-type="block"> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td colspan="2" align="left" height="24" valign="top"> <span style="color: #dcab39; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 19px; font-weight: bold;"><br /> </span><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 19px; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 19px; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 19px; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><font size="4">Blacksmith authors in the news</font></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #38761d;"><font face="Arial"><b><span lang="en-au"><font size="4"><font face="Arial"><b><span lang="en-au"><font size="4"><br /> </font></span><br /> </b></font></font></span></b></font></span></span></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" align="left" height="10" valign="top"> <img decoding="async" src="https://app.streamsend.com/images/templates/1051/divider.gif" alt="" style="display: block;" height="2" width="534" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px;" align="left" valign="top"> <div> <table class="text-left-table" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" align="left" style="border-collapse: collapse; mso-table-lspace: 0; mso-table-rspace: 0;" width="354"> <tr> <td valign="top" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: 20px;">Jason Y. Ng gave a talk to a crowded hall and signed books at the Hong Kong Book Fair in July (see photo). His second book, <a href="https://www.blacksmithbooks.com/books/no-city-for-slow-men-hong-kongs-quirks-and-quandaries-laid-bare/">No City for Slow Men</a>, has just gone into its third printing.</p> <p><a href="https://www.blacksmithbooks.com/books/the-yunnan-cookbook-recipes-from-chinas-land-of-ethnic-diversity/">The Yunnan Cookbook</a> was the #1 new release in its category on Amazon. It was also reviewed in the <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/rupert-parker/chinese-recipes-cookbook_b_6441754.html">Huffington Post</a> and <a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2014/11/14/new-cookbook-aims-to-brings-yunnans-varied-cuisine-to-the-table/">Wall Street Journal</a>.</p> <p><a href="https://www.blacksmithbooks.com/books/year-of-fire-dragons-an-american-womans-story-of-coming-of-age-in-hong-kong/">Year of Fire Dragons</a> was given a glowing review by <a href="http://www.theloveblender.com/year-of-fire-dragons-review/">The Love Blender</a> and was featured by <a href="https://thenanfang.com/year-fire-dragons-memoir-documents-expat-life-hong-kong/">The Nanfang</a> magazine too. Author Shannon Young answered a Q&A in the <a href="http://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/chinablog/qa-shannon-young-author-year-fire-dragons/">Los Angeles Review of Books</a>.</p> <p>Author/illustrator <a href="https://www.blacksmithbooks.com/books/the-dragons-back/">Theadora Whittington</a> was part of a <i>South China Morning Post</i> story about <a href="http://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/families/article/1808463/hong-kong-celebrated-english-language-books-children">English-language books for children in Hong Kong</a>.</p> <p><a href="https://www.blacksmithbooks.com/books/paper-tigress-a-life-in-the-hong-kong-government/">Paper Tigress</a> is reprinted and back in the shops! To mark the occasion, we posted the <a href="https://www.blacksmithbooks.com/blog/2015/05/paper-tigress-is-reprinted/">text of a speech</a> author Rachel Cartland gave to a Hong Kong business group.</p> <p>We also posted an excerpt from <a href="https://www.blacksmithbooks.com/blog/2015/01/remembering-the-mighty-bruce-lee/">Remembering Bruce Lee</a> and a recipe/story — “Think of Chopsticks as Friends” — from <a href="https://www.blacksmithbooks.com/blog/2015/01/think-of-chopsticks-as-friends/">The Taste of Old Hong Kong</a>.</p> <p>Finally: if I cared for money, I probably wouldn’t have gone into publishing, but nonetheless I was happy to talk about the business side of books on RTHK Radio 3’s <a href="http://programme.rthk.hk/channel/radio/programme.php?name=radio3%2Fmoney_for_nothing&d=2015-07-20&p=5126&e=312288&m=episode">Money for Nothing</a>. I was also interviewed by local newspaper <a href="http://hk.apple.nextmedia.com/supplement/special/art/20150228/19057287">Apple Daily</a>.</td> </tr> </table> <table class="text-right-table" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" align="right" style="border-collapse: collapse; mso-table-lspace: 0; mso-table-rspace: 0;" width="180"> <tr> <td valign="top" style="width: 1px;"><img decoding="async" src="https://production-streamsend.ezpublishing.netdna-cdn.com/assets/330259/images/jason-hkbf-em-c9dab9c1b155bea6c0840485260a5ff1.jpg" border="0" class="" style="display: block;" width="180" height="179" /></td> </tr> </table> <div style="clear: both;"></div> </div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top" width="273"> <img decoding="async" src="https://app.streamsend.com/images/templates/1051/spacer.gif" alt="" style="display: block;" height="29" width="1" /></td> <td align="left" valign="top" width="277"></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> <div style="" data-type="block"> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td colspan="2" align="left" height="24" valign="top"> <span style="color: #dcab39; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 19px; font-weight: bold;"><br /> </span><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 19px; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 19px; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 19px; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 19px; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><font size="4">Summer recommendation: <span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 19px; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 19px; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 19px; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 19px; font-weight: bold;"><font size="4">Hong Kong for Kid<font face="Arial">s, 2015 edition</font></font></span></span></span></span></span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #38761d;"><font face="Arial"><b><span lang="en-au"><font size="4"><font face="Arial"><b><span lang="en-au"><font size="4"><br /> </font></span><br /> </b></font></font></span></b></font></span></span></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" align="left" height="10" valign="top"> <img decoding="async" src="https://app.streamsend.com/images/templates/1051/divider.gif" alt="" style="display: block;" height="2" width="534" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px;" align="left" valign="top"> <div> <table class="text-left-table" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" align="left" style="border-collapse: collapse; mso-table-lspace: 0; mso-table-rspace: 0;" width="354"> <tr> <td valign="top" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: 20px;"> <a href="https://www.blacksmithbooks.com/books/hong-kong-for-kids-a-parents-guide/">Hong Kong for Kids: A Parent’s Guide</a>Do you need ideas for family days out? Hong Kong’s best selling parents’ guide is completely revised for 2015 and more comprehensive than ever before, with 70+ outing ideas! Inside you will find:</p> <ul> <li>Detailed outing descriptions</li> <li>Maps</li> <li>Comprehensive public transport directions</li> <li>Driving directions</li> <li>Special programs and tours</li> <li>Chinese translations of addresses</li> <li>Where to get a bite to eat on every outing</li> <li>Contact details for educators</li> <li>Information that is only word-of-mouth</li> </ul> <p>So grab your kids and go someplace new and exciting in Hong Kong!</td> </tr> </table> <table class="text-right-table" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" align="right" style="border-collapse: collapse; mso-table-lspace: 0; mso-table-rspace: 0;" width="180"> <tr> <td valign="top" style="width: 1px;"><a target="_blank" href="https://www.blacksmithbooks.com/books/hong-kong-for-kids-a-parents-guide/" rel="noopener noreferrer"><img decoding="async" src="https://production-streamsend.ezpublishing.netdna-cdn.com/assets/330259/images/cindy-50a58c0ea14599e6b0ce268a66a72633.jpg" border="0" class="" style="display: block;" width="180" height="190" /></a></td> </tr> </table> <div style="clear: both;"></div> </div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top" width="273"> <img decoding="async" src="https://app.streamsend.com/images/templates/1051/spacer.gif" alt="" style="display: block;" height="29" width="1" /></td> <td align="left" valign="top" width="277"></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> <div style="" data-type="block"> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td colspan="2" align="left" height="24" valign="top"> <span style="color: #dcab39; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 19px; font-weight: bold;"><br /> </span><span style="color: #7c7759; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 19px; font-weight: bold;"><br /> </span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" align="left" height="10" valign="top"> <img decoding="async" src="https://app.streamsend.com/images/templates/1051/divider.gif" alt="" style="display: block;" height="2" width="534" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px;" align="left" valign="top"> <p style="margin: 0pt;">This newsletter is sent only a few times a year, whenever we have new books out. 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