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Strangers on the Praia: A Tale of Refugees and Resistance in Wartime Macao

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Where Strange Gods Call: Harry Hervey’s 1920s Hong Kong, Macao and Canton Sojourns

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Wanderings in China: Hong Kong and Canton, Christmas and New Year, 1878/1879

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LING-NAM: Hong Kong, Canton and Hainan Island in the 1880s

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Roving Through Southern China: An American’s Explorations of Hong Kong, Macao and Canton in the early 1920s

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Explore Macau: A walking guide and history

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Diamond Hill: Memories of growing up in a Hong Kong squatter village

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Lama of the Gobi: How Mongolia’s mystic monk spread Tibetan Buddhism in the world’s harshest desert

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The Tiger Hunters of Tai O

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The Slightest Chance

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Farewell, My Colony: Last Days in the Life of British Hong Kong

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Paper Tigress: A life in the Hong Kong government

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King Hui: The Man Who Owned All the Opium in Hong Kong

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It Won’t Be Long Now: The Diary of a Hong Kong Prisoner of War

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The Mercenary Mandarin: How a British adventurer became a general in Qing-dynasty China

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Sheriff of Wan Chai: How an Englishman helped govern Hong Kong in its last decades as a British colony

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Hong Kong on the Brink: An American diplomat relives 1967’s darkest days

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Tin Hats and Rice: A Diary of Life as a Hong Kong Prisoner of War, 1941-1945

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Destination Shanghai

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Hong Kong Volunteers in Battle: December 1941

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Ayo Gorkhali: The True Story of the Gurkhas

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Destination Peking

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The Last Tigers of Hong Kong: True stories of big cats that stalked Britain’s Chinese colony

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The Good War of Consul Reeves

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Hong Kong Confidential: Life as a Subversive

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Women, Crime and the Courts: Hong Kong 1841-1941

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Love, Money and Friendships

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The Hong Kong I Knew: Scenes and Stories from a Childhood in Kowloon

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Searching for Billie: A journalist’s quest to understand his mother’s past leads him to discover a vanished China

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Policing Hong Kong – An Irish History

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The Tramways of Hong Kong: A history in pictures

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Spatial Cemetery: A Journey Beneath the Surface of Hidden Hong Kong

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Lost Hong Kong: A history in pictures

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Volume 1: Old Hong Kong Photos and The Tales They Tell

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Volume 2: Old Hong Kong Photos and The Tales They Tell

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Volume 3: Old Hong Kong Photos and The Tales They Tell

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Volume 4: Old Hong Kong Photos and The Tales They Tell

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Volume 5: Old Hong Kong Photos and The Tales They Tell

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Shanghai’s Baghdadi Jews: A Collection of Biographical Reflections

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Along the Southern Boundary: A Marine Police Officer’s Frontline Account of the Vietnamese Boatpeople and their Arrival in Hong Kong

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All The Way With Ray: My Autobiography

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The Peak: An Illustrated History of Hong Kong’s Top District

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Octopus: The Pioneering Story of the World’s First Contactless Payment Card

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China Revisited: a series bundle

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Paper Horses: Traditional Woodblock Prints of Gods from Northern China

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A Danger Shared: A Journalist’s Glimpses of a Continent at War

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Trading Places: A photographic journey through China’s former Treaty Ports

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