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In its last days under British rule, the Crown Colony of 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. World-renowned travel writer Jan Morris offers the most insightful and comprehensive study of the enigma of Hong Kong thus far.
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Jan Morris
- Publisher
- New York: Vintage Departures
- Published
- 1997
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780679776482
- Category
- travel
- Subjects
- Fiction, Travel, History
- Rating
- 3.83 / 5 (151 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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