Books

From easy seafood to instant noodles, to rice balls and sweet delicacies, this is like no other Asian cookbook out there.

Fragrant Harbour is a novel set in Hong Kong, telling the story of the city’s transformation through the lives of four very different characters.

Crevasse, Hong Kong–based writer Nicholas Wong's newest collection of poetry, which won the 2016 Lamda Literary Award, starts with an epigraph from Maurice Merleau-Ponty.

The Kite Family won the New Writer's Novella first prize from Taiwan's Unitas Literary Association, was one of 2008's Books of the Year according to Taiwan's China Times, was selected as one of the Top 10 Chinese Novels Worldwide.

The novel blends fiction, history, and speculative archaeology to explore an imaginary version of Hong Kong, reflecting on memory, urban identity, and colonial legacy. It’s a highly original and genre-defying work.

Evocative, funny and full of life, this is a beautifully observed childhood memoir of growing up in colonial Hong Kong in the 1950s.

Based on extensive research in British and Chinese sources, both official and private, the book addresses the changing relations between the local Chinese and the expatriate communities in 156 years of British rule, and the emergence of a local identity.

Mo combines satire with social commentary to explore themes of immigration, identity, and survival, painting a vivid portrait of the Chinese diaspora in Britain.

Combining sophisticated theory and a critical perspective, this rich and thought-provoking work captures the complex situation of the metropolis that is contemporary Hong Kong.

Set against a background of Hong Kong, Philadelphia and the Philippines, A Chinese Wedding is more than a story of love between two vastly different cultures; it is an intriguing glimpse of a complex and evolving personality