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Hong Kong is the world’s most exciting city, at once fascinating and exasperating, a tangle of contradictions. It is a dazzling amalgam of conspicuous consumption and primitive poverty, the most architecturally incongruous yet undeniably beautiful urban panorama of all.

Through firsthand reportage, world-renowned travel writer Jan Morris takes us through the crowded streets of this enigmatic city, offering the most insightful and comprehensive study of Hong Kong thus far. She reviews Hong Kong’s early days as a British opium port controlled by pirates, cutthroats, and scoundrel tycoons, and looks ahead to the city’s future as part of the People’s Republic of China.

©1985 1987, 1988, 1989 by Jan Morris (P)2000 Blackstone Audio, Inc. Asie Moderne Écritures et commentaires de voyage
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With her usual energy, Jan Morris addresses here the city of Hong Kong, all at once from a historical and geographical perspective, with much space given to the city’s inhabitants.

It must be underscored that the book was written just a few years before the 1997 retrocession to China and reflects the angst that was then prevailing. This does not reduce the book’s interest as the reader may now compare what was feared with what happened.

It certainly provides a good introduction to the territory though it must be completed with other sources by anyone planning to visit the city for the first time with any seriousness.

Worthwhile!

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