October newsletter

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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="border: medium none" data-type="block"> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td colspan="2" align="left" height="24" valign="top"> <p> <span style="color: rgb(220, 171, 57); font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 19px; font-weight: bold"><br /> </span><span style="color: rgb(61, 133, 198); font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 19px; font-weight: bold"><span style="color: rgb(61, 133, 198)"><span style="color: rgb(61, 133, 198); font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 19px; font-weight: bold"><span style="color: rgb(61, 133, 198)"><font size="4">Hong Kong war memoir: <span style="color: rgb(39, 78, 19)">It Won’t Be Long Now</span></font></span></span><span style="color: rgb(56, 118, 29)"><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></p> </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: rgb(51, 51, 51); 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: rgb(51, 51, 51); 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/it-wont-be-long-now-the-diary-of-a-hong-kong-prisoner-of-war/">It Won’t Be Long Now: The Diary of a Hong Kong Prisoner of War</a><br />by Graham Heywood</p> <p>Japan marched into Hong Kong at the outbreak of the Pacific War on December 8, 1941. On the same day, Graham Heywood was captured by the invading Japanese near the border while carrying out duties for the Royal Observatory. He was held at various places in the New Territories before being transported to the military Prisoner-of-War camp in Sham Shui Po, Kowloon. The Japanese refused to allow Heywood and his colleague Leonard Starbuck to join the civilians at Stanley. </p> <p>Heywood’s illustrated diary records his three-and-a-half years of internment, telling a story of hardship, adversity, and survival of malnutrition and disease; as well as repeated hopes of liberation and disappointment. As he awaits the end of the war, his reflections upon freedom and imprisonment bring realisations about life and how to live it. </p> <p>“Accounts of life in the internment camp differed widely. One friend, an enthusiastic biologist, was full of his doings; he had grown champion vegetables, had seen all sort of rare birds (including vultures, after the corpses) and had run a successful yeast brewery. Altogether, he said, it had been a great experience … a bit too long, perhaps, but not bad fun at all. Another ended up her account by saying ‘Oh, Mr. Heywood, it was hell on earth’. It all depended on their point of view.” </p> <p><b>Book event</b><br />Heywood’s daughter Veronica will be giving a talk entitled “History, Heroism and Heritage: Wartime Memories of Graham Heywood” at the Hong Kong Observatory, 134A Nathan Road, TST, Kowloon at 3:00pm on Monday October 19th, 2015. Following the talk, discussion and tea, a memorial service will be held at St Andrew’s Church next door to the Observatory. All are welcome to both events. There is no charge, but please let Geoffrey Emerson know if you are coming: emerson (at) netvigator.com or 6012 0700. </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/it-wont-be-long-now-the-diary-of-a-hong-kong-prisoner-of-war/" rel="noopener noreferrer"><img decoding="async" src="https://production-streamsend.ezpublishing.netdna-cdn.com/assets/330259/images/It-wont-be-long-now-em-c0672b2eaaf0457fb9006ec842a2a876.jpg" border="0" class="" style="display: block" width="180" height="278"></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="border: medium none" data-type="block"> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td colspan="2" align="left" height="24" valign="top"> <p> <span style="color: rgb(220, 171, 57); font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 19px; font-weight: bold"><br /> <span style="color: rgb(61, 133, 198)"><font size="4">Pearl River Delta </font></span></span><span style="color: rgb(61, 133, 198); font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 19px; font-weight: bold"><span style="color: rgb(61, 133, 198)"><span style="color: rgb(61, 133, 198); font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 19px; font-weight: bold"><span style="color: rgb(61, 133, 198)"><span style="color: rgb(61, 133, 198); font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 19px; font-weight: bold"><span style="color: rgb(61, 133, 198)"><font size="4">fiction: <span style="color: rgb(39, 78, 19)"><font face="Arial">South China Morning Blues</font></span></font></span></span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(56, 118, 29)"><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></p> </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: rgb(51, 51, 51); 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: rgb(51, 51, 51); 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/south-china-morning-blues/">South China Morning Blues</a><br /> by Ray Hecht </p> <p>There’s no place quite like it. From Guangzhou to Hong Kong, the booming megalopolis of the Pearl River Delta has endless stories to tell. <i>South China Morning Blues</i> is filled with these tales of the postmodern East: depraved, rapidly changing, and never boring. </p> <p>Just what kinds of people find themselves in 21st-century China? There’s Marco, a crooked businessman with a penchant for call girls; Danny, a culture-shocked young traveler; Sheila, a local club girl caught up in family politics; Amber, a drug-fueled aspiring model; Terry, an alcoholic journalist; and Ting Ting, a lovable artist with a chip on her shoulder. Their lives intertwine in unexpected ways as they delve deeper into their surroundings and in the process learn more about themselves. </p> <p>China may be leading the world into the future, but its inhabitants will have to make sense of the present if that future is ever going to arrive. </p> <p><b>Look inside this book</b><br /> Click on the following links to view sample pages from <i>South China Morning Blues</i>. You will need a pdf reader to view these excerpts. <a href="https://www.blacksmithbooks.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/south-china-morning-blues-3-27.pdf">Prologue: Shenzhen</a> <a href="https://www.blacksmithbooks.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/south-china-morning-blues-171-184.pdf">Monkey</a></p> <p><b>Author talk</b><br />Ray Hecht will be appearing at the Hong Kong International Literary Festival’s <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160126105309/http://www.festival.org.hk/program/cross-cultural-love/">Cross-Cultural Love</a> event, with fellow authors Shannon Young, Marshall Moore and Susan Blumberg-Kason, on November 8th. </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/south-china-morning-blues/" rel="noopener noreferrer"><img decoding="async" src="https://production-streamsend.ezpublishing.netdna-cdn.com/assets/330259/images/SouthChinaMorningBlues_em-ea68dc9f11d17aa26ea67c83bfe132bf.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="border: medium none" data-type="block"> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td colspan="2" align="left" height="24" valign="top"> <p> <span style="color: rgb(220, 171, 57); font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 19px; font-weight: bold"><br /> </span><span style="color: rgb(61, 133, 198); font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 19px; font-weight: bold"><span style="color: rgb(61, 133, 198)"><span style="color: rgb(61, 133, 198); font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 19px; font-weight: bold"><span style="color: rgb(61, 133, 198)"><span style="color: rgb(61, 133, 198); font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 19px; font-weight: bold"><span style="color: rgb(61, 133, 198)"><font size="4">Kowloon <font face="Arial">music biography: <span style="color: rgb(39, 78, 19)">Paul’s Records</span></font></font></span></span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(56, 118, 29)"><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></p> </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: rgb(51, 51, 51); 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: rgb(51, 51, 51); 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/pauls-records-how-a-refugee-from-the-vietnam-war-found-success-selling-vinyl-on-the-streets-of-hong-kong/">Paul’s Records: How a refugee from the Vietnam War found success selling vinyl on the streets of Hong Kong</a><br />by Andrew S. Guthrie</p> <p> As a youth in Saigon’s Chinatown of the 1960s and ’70s, Paul Au was greatly affected by American “hippie” culture and Rock and Roll. He was smuggled into Hong Kong in 1974 to escape the South Vietnamese military draft. </p> <p>At first living in rooftop squats, he started to trade used vinyl records on the streets of Sham Shui Po, and finally established an underground reputation for his eclectic blend and unending supply of recorded music. </p> <p> This full-colour book uses sample records and sleeve art to depict the evolution of popular music in Hong Kong since the 1970s, and describes the down-to-earth part of Kowloon, with its walk-up buildings and street markets, that Paul Au has become synonymous with.</p> <p>“<i>Paul’s Records </i>solidifies Andrew Guthrie’s status as the most perceptive, and astute, observer of the lingering appeal of recording and cassette culture in post-colonial Hong Kong.” – Giorgio Biancorosso, Associate Professor, Department of Music, The University of 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/pauls-records-how-a-refugee-from-the-vietnam-war-found-success-selling-vinyl-on-the-streets-of-hong-kong/" rel="noopener noreferrer"><img decoding="async" src="https://production-streamsend.ezpublishing.netdna-cdn.com/assets/330259/images/pauls-records-em-d2a034064f23bd4b125b253a69410a47.jpg" border="0" class="" style="display: block" width="180" height="252"></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="border: medium none" data-type="block"> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td colspan="2" align="left" height="24" valign="top"> <p> <span style="color: rgb(220, 171, 57); font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 19px; font-weight: bold"><br /> </span><span style="color: rgb(124, 119, 89); font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 19px; font-weight: bold"><br /></span></p> </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: rgb(51, 51, 51); 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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