Gweilo:memories of a Hong Kong childhood
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Published: |
Doubleday,
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Publisher Address: | London |
Publication Dates: | 2004. |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Carrier Form: | 342 p.: ; 24 cm. |
ISBN: |
0385607768 9780385607766 |
Index Number: | K835 |
CLC: | K835.615.6 |
Call Number: | K835.615.6/B725 |
Contents: | Shadowed by the unhappiness of his warring parents, a broad-minded mother and a bigoted father, Martin Booth's memoir of his childhood in Hong Kong in the early 1950s is a journey into Chinese culture and an extinct colonial way of life. |