City of the Queen: A Novel of Colonial Hong Kong by Shu-Ching Shih

Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan

City of the Queen: A Novel of Colonial Hong Kong

Shu-Ching Shih with Howard Goldblatt (Translator), Sylvia Lin (Translator)

312 pages hardcover 2005

3 editions

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From its beginnings as a pestilent port and colonial backwater, Hong Kong became the "pearl" of a declining British empire, and then ascended to its present status as a gleaming city of commerce. Throughout its history, Hong Kong has been steeped ...

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