Penguin Group Australia, 2017. First Edition. Paperback. Penguin Specials: The Inaugural Hong Kong Series. From the turbulent 1960s until today, Hong Kong has been a city shaped by civil disobedience. The latest wave of protests in Hong Kong’s long history of public dissent culminated in the Occupy Central movement of..... More
Penguin Group Australia, 2017. First Edition. Paperback. Penguin Specials: The Inaugural Hong Kong Series. Teenage activists turned politicians, multi-millionaire super tutors and artists fighting censorship – these are the stories of Generation HK. From radically different backgrounds yet with a common legacy, having grown up in post-handover Hong Kong, these... More
Melbourne, Australia: Viking, 2014. Paperback. FREE DOMESTIC SHIPPING ON ALL PENGUIN CHINA TITLES. Originally published in Chinese as Tui Na by People's Literature Publishing House. Wang Daifu is blind and works as a practitioner of tuina, a traditional form of pressure-point massage, in the burgeoning metropolis of Shenzhen... More
United Kingdom: Penguin Books, 2015. China Library series. Paperback. FREE DOMESTIC SHIPPING ON ALL PENGUIN CHINA TITLES. Originally published in Chinese as Xue Zhi Zui by Renmin University Press, Beijing. Set in the mid-nineties, Hanging Devils is a true-to-life story of cold-blooded murder and corruption from one of... More
United Kingdom: Penguin Books, 2016. China Library series. Paperback. FREE DOMESTIC SHIPPING ON ALL PENGUIN CHINA TITLES. Originally published in Chinese as Sheng Si Pi Lao by China Writers Publishing House. Ximen Nao, a wealthy landowner, loses his farm and his life as angry villagers redistribute the land after... More
United Kingdom: Penguin Books, 2015. Paperback. During China's collectivist era in the late 1950s, a rural work team responsible for building an important floodgate receives a strange new recruit: Hei-hai, a skinny, silent and almost feral boy. Assigned to assist the blacksmith at the worksite forge, Hei-hai proves superhumanly indifferent... More
United Kingdom: Viking / Penguin Books, 2018. First Trade Paperback Edition. Paperback. At first glance, the Li family looks like any other: one grumpy grandfather, two overworked parents, four siblings, and one small house for them all to live in. Still, with a journalist in the mix, its members can... More
Penguin Group Australia, 2017. First Edition. Paperback. Penguin Specials: The Inaugural Hong Kong Series. Since 1997, Hong Kong’s economic growth rate has dropped sharply, inequality has increased, and corruption has found its way to the highest levels of government. These developments, Simon Cartledge argues, can be attributed to the city’s..... More
Penguin Group Australia, 2017. First Edition. Paperback. Penguin Specials: The Inaugural Hong Kong Series. Xu Xi’s body of work witnesses her turbulent love affair with her home-city of Hong Kong. In this probing memoir, she unravels her recently finalised decision to leave the city for good. She critiques a Hong..... More
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