A Danger Shared provides a searing visual history of Asia during World War II as seen by foreign correspondent Melville Jacoby. In this meticulousl...

We had no jurisdiction outside of Hong Kong waters. But we could see their vessels sinking in heavy seas. It was life or death, right there. We jus...

After 50 momentous years, little is remembered of the chaos the Hong Kong Philharmonic faced in its early days as a professional outfit. John Duffu...

Designing a Life tells the inspiring story of Kai-Yin Lo, a determined woman born to a wealthy Hong Kong family who had to build her own future fol...

Colin Flahive explores China’s rural-urban migration against the backdrop of his own transition from Colorado to southwest China. There, in Yunnan ...

From sampan ladies and bamboo scaffolders to street cleaners, fishermen, security guards and market vendors – these workers form the backbone of th...

"Hong Kong Volunteers in Battle", when originally published in 1953, was the first general account of the battle for Hong Kong in December 1941. It...

Benjamin Couch BC Henry was a missionary in Hong Kong and southern China in the second half of the 19th century. Yet he was much more too – a keen ...

In 1981, David Wong retired after 20 years as an administrative officer in the Hong Kong Government to chance his arm in the city's cut-throat free...

Nowadays most people are familiar with payments using contactless cards, or even mobile phones. But few know that just after Hong Kongâ s handover...

In 2020 a large album of paper horses – prayer prints of Chinese gods – appeared for sale. How had these fragile things, cheaply printed in the 194...

In the 1920s the American travel writer Harry A Franck was known to readers as the â Prince of Vagabondsâ . His wanderings were family affairs an...

Ian Gill's first visit to Hong Kong in 1975 takes an unexpected turn when he meets his Chinese mother Billieâ s friends, colleagues and fellow ex-...

Fighting to survive on a police patrol launch during a typhoon, and investigating a murder by a Vietnamese gangster in a refugee camp. Battling rio...

Based on true stories and new research, Paul French weaves together the stories of those Jewish refugees who moved on from wartime Shanghai to seek...

Major Max Devlin is on a joint SIS/CIA assignment to train an elite unit of India's All-Tibetan Special Frontier Force – the 22s – for covert ops i...

At the age of 14, Sonia Leung was raped by her ping-pong coach. She had moved from China two-and-a-half years earlier to join her family in Hong Ko...

Months before the start of the Pacific War in 1941, John Reeves â his career and marriage failing â is posted as British consul to the tiny Por...

For years, Andreas von Buddenbrock â also known as â The Ink Trailâ â has been filling sketchbook after sketchbook with ink drawings that al...

Asia, 1996. What do you do when you have failed to find the meaning of life in India, your money has run out, your girlfriend has gone, and prospec...

Tigers came to Hong Kong. They preyed on pigs, chickens, cattle and deer. They sometimes killed people. They came to Hong Kong most years through t...

Maggie loves hanging out with her best friends Methuselah (her talkative African Grey parrot) and Edmund (the richest boy in Hong Kong), but she lo...

Everyone loves dinosaurs, but so many other groups of wonderfully weird (and often giant) animals used to roam the Earth too -- they just never had...

Inveterate Victorian traveller and prolific artist Constance Gordon-Cumming roamed far and wide: from the Scottish Highlands to the American West, ...

Welly the wild boar loves nothing better than eating fluffy egg puffs! He roams his home city of Hong Kong in search of his favourite snack, but he...

As a young American, Harry Hervey dreamt of travelling to Asia. In 1923, he arrived to spend time in Hong Kong, Macao and Guangzhou. His impression...

Jack Leblanc arrived in China in 1989 intending to teach for just two years. He was to spend the next two decades on a very different learning curv...