Written as a mixture of memoir, travelogue and reportage, the book celebrates the spirit of Tibet's exiled culture in a time of great change. In these eleven stories, the author also offers a honest and moving meditation on the meaning of exile, religion, literature, culture and art.

Searching for Buddha's Tooth: Personal Stories of Tibetan Culture

Biographies & Memoirs

Khortsa, Tsering N.

Arts & Literature

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Broken Dragons: Crime And Corruption In Today's China

Dalbrack, Bruce

Literature & Fiction

Throughout his reign the Emperor had matched his clothes to his big initiatives – military uniform for an armed conflict, track suit for the athletic push, overalls for his agricultural projects and business suit for his drive to make the kingdom a financial centre. One by one his efforts failed and in the end he decided that he had nothing left to show them. It meant one last change of clothes. Jake van der Kamp is a Hong Kong-based financial journalist and novelist whose fiction on the theme of ‘old stories told anew’ explores organised religion, social dilemmas stemming from the rapid pace of technological change and the likely ordering of society in the Space Age of the future.

The Emperor's Old Clothes

Van Der Kamp, Jake

Genre Fiction

This is the story of a man and a woman born thousands of miles apart, of different nationality, culture and language, who met in Hong Kong in the most unlikely of circumstances, yet were destined for a life together. Both had known hardship and sorrow in youth; both had similar aspirations to study and dedicate their lives to the service of the underprivileged, to struggle against injustice, and to work for world peace. The only barrier between was that one belonged to a nation of colonisers; the other to the colonised. Their task seemed formidable, but together they succeeded in bringing about changes beyond their imagination. Elsie Tu is one of Hong Kong's best-known activists and writers. 'Shouting at the Mountain', completed after her husband Andrew's death in 2001, confirms her as an authentic Hong Kong voice. 'Heartwarming' -- HK Magazine; 'Tu tells her story clearly and directly, without recourse to ornate language or selfcongratulation.' -- South China Morning Post

Shouting at the Mountain: A Hong Kong Story of Love And Commitment

Tu, Elsie

Community & Culture

As daughter of Edward Schreyer, governor general of Canada and premier of Manitoba, and great-granddaughter of Anton Schreyer, late-nineteenth-century immigrant and pioneer, Karmel Schreyer grew up in a tradition of both pioneer simplicity and political activism. After more than a decade of globetrotting, Schreyer returns from her Hong Kong home to the Manitoba homestead to spend a summer introducing her two young daughters to their Canadian heritage. In the process, they learn about cultivating a vegetable garden, the wonders of the Great Plains, the importance of extended families and are sent on a 1600-mile odyssey by the United States Department of Homeland Security. Seamlessly incorporating her grandfather's unpublished journals from a century earlier, By the Banks of the Brokenhead is both a history of one of Canada's leading families and an intimate description of how past and future connect and reconnect across continents and generations. "I enjoyed this original and delightful account of what it is like to be the daughter of a man who is living Canadian history. This couldn't have been an easy subject to tackle, but Karmel Schreyer pulls it off with humour and a light touch. Through her genuine sense of awe at what it took to build this country, and her family's contribution to it, I was moved too, as other readers will be." -- Sharon Butala, author of 'The Perfection of the Morning and Lilac Moon: Dreaming of the Real West'

By the Banks of the Brokenhead: One Life, And One Summer, on the Canadian Prairie

Schreyer, Karmel

Schreyer, Anton

Bill Purves trained as a seaman, earned his seaman's papers and made several voyages on a variety of Asian-owned and operated freighters to research this unique inside look at the worldwide shipping industry and the people behind it. From Taiwan to Estonia, and Egypt to Myanmar, amid the roar of engines and the trading floor, in A Sea of Green you will meet the shipowners and brokers, captains and ordinary seamen that make this important part of the global economy work. With his trademark combination of anecdote and educational detail, Bill Purves, author of China on the Lam, has once again made an adventure out of the seemingly ordinary and made enlightenment entertaining.

A Sea of Green: A Voyage Around the World of Ocean Shipping

Business & Money

Purves, Bill

Industries

Thirteen wonderfully spooky short stories from some of Hong Kong's most exciting writers: Michael A Ashton, Michael Gibb, Lawrence Gray, Matthew Harrison, Ken Kamoche, Diana McPartlin, Leela Devi Panikar, Sasha Seth and Roseanne Thong. Take a journey into the dark side of the city and you'll find ghosts everywhere: protesting in Statue Square, lurking on the MTR, grooving in Wanchai nightclubs, dining in Cheung Chau, and wreaking havoc in the New Territories. "Hong Kong is a haunted city, and, taken together, these stories evoke the atmosphere of a place where the dead mingle readily with the living...a damn good read, perfect for a long, sub-tropical night." -- Rosie Milne, author of 'Holding the Baby' "At last, our writers, spelunkers of the netherworld, have dutifully paid the invisible ones their rightful homage." -- Francis Moriarty, Hong Kong broadcaster and journalist

Haunting Tales of Hong Kong

Hong Kong Writers' Circle

Contemporary

You Can Learn Any Language -- Are you hesitating to learn a new language because you've heard it's difficult? Or are you trying right now but finding it harder than you imagined? What if you could become fluent in a new language in a very short period of time -- just months, or maybe even weeks? You can learn any new language quickly and easily. It doesn't require pain or frustration. It can be fun, exciting and enlightening. Of course, to have this experience you do need to know a few things. You need to find and use your hidden talent -- something we call the Third Ear. The Third Ear takes you step by step along a path to think about language learning in totally new ways. Ways that help you realise you already know how to learn any language. You just needed to be reminded.

The Third Ear

Self-Help

Lonsdale, Chris

Motivational

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