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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 951
EAN: 9789889979980
ISBN: 9889979985
Label: Blacksmith Books
Manufacturer: Blacksmith Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 352
Publication Date: December 05, 2007
Publisher: Blacksmith Books
Sales Rank: 1354696
Studio: Blacksmith Books
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Scandal and corruption, drugs and pirates, triads and flower boats; the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong and the Communist takeover of Canton. Peter Hui was there. He knew everybody and saw everything. This is the real story of Hong Kong, told with the rich flavours of the street. If Peter had been only a little bit different he could have been an important man. But this is a riches to rags to riches to rags story. As we follow Peter's life - his ups, his downs - we see in sharp focus what it was like to be a Chinese man in the British territory of Hong Kong through most of the years of the 20th century. And yet this book is not just one man's tale. It is the story of a time and place - colonial Hong Kong, Portuguese Macau and the South China hinterland - seen from the unique point of view of a man who was at home at all levels of society. This is the bizarre story of a man who really did, for a very short time, once own all the opium in Hong Kong. If Suzie Wong had been a real person, Peter Hui would have known her. "This is a true story but it reads like a novel. It is a cracking read." - David Tang
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The nagging question I was left with after reading Jonathan Chamberlain's King Hui: The Man Who Owned All The Opium In Hong Kong was how much was truth and how much was a figment of one man's vivid imagination.
I noticed that even the publisher cautions us stating: "This book reflects the memories of the man known as Peter Hui, or Hui Shen-kei. These memories may not be accurate."
While the author informs us in his introduction that the general consensus among the European ... Read More
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I won't say, "The story was so gripping that I couldn't put the book down", but the narrative was sufficiently interesting and well told that I read the book over a weekend.
Through the author, the protagonist Peter "King" Hui recounts his life as a disreputable playboy growing up and living in Hong Kong from the 1920s through the 1960s. I say "protagonist" because this oral history resonates with enough hyperbole to qualify as part fiction.
Nevertheless, Hui paints himself ... Read More
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