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Kirsten Rising
Set against the backdrop of exotic Southeast Asia, the second volume of The Wanchai Chronicles continues the thrills as it tells the tale of Kirsten Haugaard, an American widow facing a charge of conspiring to murder her successful and prominent husband. In 1999, at the height of the technology investment boom, American venture capitalist Karl Haugaard and his wife, Kirsten, embark on a holiday to Thailand's tropical island of Phuket. One year later, with Karl dead, and the Hong Kong High Court closing in on an indictment, Kirsten's therapist forces her to look back on this defining experience in search of the truth about her husband's death. Follow the twists and turns of Kirsten's Asian adventure as she experiences a torrid love affair and a near-perfect scheme to avenge a heartbreaking betrayal that ultimately brings this story to a disquieting conclusion.
Perfect Love
For some time, Hong Kong expatriates Karl and Kristian Haugaard were entangled with several young girls struggling to survive in the underbelly of Asia’s sex industry. Unfortunately it is an evil business, protecting young girls from a bad life. Both Karl and Kristian had enemies who wanted nothing more than to see them gone. So when fate finally intervened, it was no surprise. Now that both Karl and Kristian have passed on, Karl’s final journal pages, written in the last twenty-four hours of his life and kept secret by Kristian until now, have come to light, contributing a new subtlety as to the true cause of his death. As Karl grasps that the end is quickly approaching, he reveals a se...
Hong Kong
Hong Kong has become a by-word for all that is modern and sparkling in Asia today. Yet tourist brochures still play with the old cliche of Hong Kong as a place where 'East meets West'. Images of so-called 'traditional' China, junks sailing Victoria Harbour or old women praying to gods in smoky temples, mingle with those portraying Hong Kong as a consumer and business paradise. This collection of essays attempts to transcend the old polarities. It looks at modern Hong Kong in all its splendour and diversity in the run-up to its re-absorption into Greater China in mid-97, through the mediums of film, food, architecture, rumours and slang. It explores the question of a distinct, modern Chinese identity in Hong Kong, and even when it explores the traditional stamping ground of the older anthropology in the New Territories it finds a dramatically changed context, in particular for women. This collection presents an intriguing insight into the process of transition from 'tradition' to 'modernity' in this Modern Chinese Metropolis.
Investigation Into Commercial and Industrial-type Activities in the Federal Government
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Investigation Into Commercial and Industrial-Type Activities in the Federal Government
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Where There Are Asians, There Are Rice Cookers
This is the first English-language book to focus on the electric rice cooker and the impact it has had on the lives of Asian people. This account of the rice cooker's globalization aims to move away from Japan-centric perspectives on how "Made in Japan" products made it big in the global marketplace, instead choosing to emphasize the collaborative approach adopted by one Japanese manufacturing giant and a Hong Kong entrepreneur. The book also highlights the role Hong Kong, as a free port, played in the rice cooker's globalization and describes how the city facilitated the transnational flow of Japanese appliances to Southeast Asia, China, and North America. Based on over 40 interviews conduc...
Hong Kong & Macau
This resource includes full details of Hong Kong harbour, its shopping and nightlife districts, traditional sites and off-the-beaten track areas of the New Territories and outlying islands. A history and a cultural guide is included, as well as places to eat, drink and sleep on every budget. Background information on post-handover politics and features on festivals, feng shui and Chinese astrology are also included.
The Wanchai Chronicles Trilogy
The Wanchai Chronicles Trilogy is a philosophical thriller about an American couple’s fateful entanglement with the young girls struggling to survive in Hong Kong’s red-light district. Author Svend Christiansen weaves the dueling journal entries of expatriates Karl and Kristin Haugaard into an unsettling exploration of the moral and spiritual contours of desire, and the paradoxical role it plays in driving our conflicting impulses towards both immortality and self-destruction.
Asian City Crossings
Asian City Crossings is the first volume to examine the relationship between the city and performance from an Asian perspective. This collection introduces "city as method" as a new conceptual framework for the investigation of practices of city-based performing arts collaboration and city-to-city performance networks across East- and Southeast Asia and beyond. The shared and yet divergent histories of the global cities of Hong Kong and Singapore as postcolonial, multiethnic, multicultural, and multilingual sites, are taken as points of departure to demonstrate how "city as method" facilitates a comparative analytical space that foregrounds in-betweenness and fluid positionalities. It situat...
Investigation Into Commercial and Industrial-type Activities in the Federal Government
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