An American journalist portrays Hong Kong in the early 1960s, a British colony squeezed between two Chinas and flooded with more than a million refugees from the mainland. Gleason covers its origins after the Opium War, the struggle for water, new industry, farms and fisheries, crime and corruption, and ends with walks around the colony and its shops.
A vivid snapshot of a Cold War city on the edge of transformation, for readers of modern Asian history. Download the free EPUB.