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City Between Worlds: My Hong Kong

by Leo Ou-fan Lee
City Between Worlds: My Hong Kong - Thryft
City Between Worlds: My Hong Kong - Thryft

Insightful journey through Hong Kong's vibrant contrasts.

If you're intrigued by places with deep multicultural layers, "City Between Worlds" is a window into Hong Kong's soul. It's a narrative that doesn't just tell you about the region's complexities; it shows them through the eyes of someone who calls it home. Leo Ou-fan Lee navigates Hong Kong's colorful history and culture with such intimacy that you can almost hear the buzz of the city and taste the flavors of its crowded markets. This book isn't just about the landmarks; it's about the pulse of Hong Kong itself.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

City Between Worlds: My Hong Kong

by Leo Ou-fan Lee
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ISBN: 9780674027015
Authors: Leo Ou-fan Lee
Publisher: Belknap Press
Date of Publication: 2008-04-30
Format: Hardcover
Related Collections: History, Travel
Related Topics: Asian History, World History, Politics, Travelogue, History, Memoir
Goodreads rating: 3.81
(rated by 21 readers)

Description

Hong Kong is perched on the fault line between China and the West, a Special Administrative Region of the PRC. Leo Ou-fan Lee offers an insider’s view of Hong Kong, capturing the history and culture that make his densely packed home city so different from its generic neighbors. The search for an indigenous Hong Kong takes Lee to the wet markets and corner bookshops of congested Mong Kok, remote fishing villages and mountainside temples, teahouses and noodle stalls, Cantonese opera and Cantopop. But he also finds the “real” Hong Kong in a maze of interconnected shopping malls, a jungle of high-rise residential towers, and the neon glow of Chinese-owned skyscrapers in the Central Business District, where land development, global trade, capital accumulation, consumerism, and free-market competition trump every value—except family. Lee illuminates the relationship between Hong Kong’s geography and its colonial experience, revisiting colonial life on the secluded Peak, in the opium-filled godowns along the harborfront, and in crowded, plague-infested tenements. He examines, with a critic’s eye, the “Hong Kong story” in film and romance in the bars and brothels of Wan Chai, crime in the walled city of Kowloon, ennui on the eve of the 1997 handover. Whether viewed from Tsing Yi Bridge or the deck of the Star Ferry, from Victoria Peak
 

Insightful journey through Hong Kong's vibrant contrasts.

If you're intrigued by places with deep multicultural layers, "City Between Worlds" is a window into Hong Kong's soul. It's a narrative that doesn't just tell you about the region's complexities; it shows them through the eyes of someone who calls it home. Leo Ou-fan Lee navigates Hong Kong's colorful history and culture with such intimacy that you can almost hear the buzz of the city and taste the flavors of its crowded markets. This book isn't just about the landmarks; it's about the pulse of Hong Kong itself.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.