Collected Hong Kong Stories
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Collected Hong Kong Stories by David T K Wong
For an arresting mosaic of the great and complex metropolis known as Hong Kong -- and an insight into what the people of the city live by and die for -- a reader need look no further than the Collected Hong Kong Stories of David T K Wong. Wong, a native son of this once British Crown Colony and now Special Administrative Region of China, has drawn upon his own experiences as a journalist, educator, government official and businessman to assemble a range of memorable characters for his tales. They range from barmen to labourers, from jockeys to expatriate bureaucrats, from scholars to tycoons, and each is infused with insights into the collective soul of the edgy, anomalous and perplexing place he finds himself. These 18 stories are carefully crafted in the grand tradition of O Henry, Maugham and Saki. Each has been individually published in a magazine or broadcast over radio in Britain, the United States, Hong Kong or elsewhere. They can be dipped into and savoured separately or feasted upon all in one go. Either way, the result can only be satisfying.
At the ripe old age of 89, David T. K. Wong is publicly exposing for the first time some of the shadier insider dealings in the Hong Kong colonial administration during the long governorship of Sir Murray MacLehose. He is currently working on the fourth volume of his family memoirs, dealing with the goings-on in the Hong Kong commercial sector during the 1980s when he was the managing director of Li and Fung, an international trading company. He is the founder of the annual David T. K. Wong Fellowship in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia in the UK. He is now resident in Malaysia.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9789881376527 |
| ISBN 10 | 9881376521 |
| Title | Collected Hong Kong Stories |
| Author | David T K Wong |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Blacksmith Books |
| Year published | 2016-11-30 |
| Number of pages | 312 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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