Download or read book Fragrant Harbor written by Erin Ross and published by New York : Silhouette Books ; Markham, Ont. : Paperjacks. This book was released on 1984 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Fragrant Harbor written by John Lanchester and published by Marian Wood Book. This book was released on 2002 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1930s, a young Englishmn named Tom Stewart heads to Hong Kong in search of adventure.

Download or read book A Dictionary of Hong Kong English written by Patrick J. Cummings and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first dictionary of Hong Kong English. It includes only words and word senses that are particular to Hong Kong English, legitimizing it as a variety in its own right. While the main focus is on contemporary language use from all domains of Hong Kong life, historical terms and references are covered as well. Entries are designed according to state of the art lexicography and show pronunciation, source language, frequency, authentic usage, and cultural conceptualizations. The dictionary also provides a brief history of Hong Kong English, a list of acronyms and abbreviations, historical place names and their current equivalents, words of Hong Kong origin now in international use, as well as further reference material. Patrick J. Cummingshas taught English and science in Hong Kong for more than a decade.Hans-Georg Wolfis chair professor for development and variation of the English language at Potsdam University, Germany.

Download or read book Fragrant Harbor Taste written by Ken Hom and published by Touchstone. This book was released on 1992 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In its culinary arts, as in its culture, Hong Kong represents a marriage of East and West, of tradition and change. Today, cooks who are masters of Asian cuisine are using new ingredients and techniques to transform standard recipes into easy-to-prepare, healthful dishes. Hom's informative notes, a section on wine, and a list of the city's best restaurants make this guide a must.

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Download or read book Fragrant Harbour written by John Lanchester and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2012-02-02 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fragrant Harbour is the story of four people whose intertwined lives span Asia's last seventy years. Tom Stewart leaves England just before it is hit by the Great Depression to seek his fortune, and finds it in running Hong Kong's best hotel. Sister Maria is a beautiful and uncompromising Chinese nun whom Stewart meets on the boat out from England; their friendship spans decades and changes both their lives. Dawn Stone is an English journalist who becomes the public face of money and power and big business. Matthew Ho is a young Chinese entrepreneur whose life has been shaped by painful choices made long before his birth, and who is now facing his own difficulties, and opportunities, in the twenty-first century. The complacency of colonial life in the 1930s; the horrors of the Japanese occupation during the Second World War; the post-war boom and transformation of Hong Kong into a laboratory of capitalism at its most cut-throat; the growth of the Triads; the handover of the city to the Chinese - all these are present in Fragrant Harbour, an epic novel of one of the world's great cities.

Download or read book Fragrant Harbor written by Shirley B. Tallman and published by Harlequin Books. This book was released on 1983-12-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Fragrant Flower written by Barbara Cartland and published by Barbara Cartland EBooks ltd. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the loveless household of General Sir Frederick and Lady Emily Osmund and their empty-headed twin daughters, begrudgingly adopted niece Azalea is little more than a wallflower. And all because her kind, heroic and beloved father died in a manner they wrongly consider scandalous - and because her mother was Russian! 'You must pay the price of your father's sins and what happened in India you will take to your grave with sealed lips', her uncle says, as if to seal her fate. When the General is posted to Hong Kong, Azalea is thrilled but there, as always, she is cast aside and abused. Only the handsome, dashing but imperious Lord Sheldon shows any interest in her - until to her aunt and uncle's disgust she's befriended by a kind Chinese family. But her joy at learning of their culture and customs is short-lived. Kidnapped by pirates, she faces death and worse. Is there any hope now that she'll find true love and a life of her own ?

Download or read book Fragrant Harbor written by Laura McBride and published by . This book was released on 2003-05-01 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hong Kong, with its oriental life and overlay of western ways, is the setting of FRAGRANT HARBOR. Gwen Kimball, fleeing an unpleasant affari in New York, comes to visit her sister and brother-in-law who are stationed there with the intention of settling in the Colony. Through them she meets many ex-patriots and locals, among them an oriental ship owner, Lance, who is married but not living eith his wife. They are immediately attracted to each other. Then Todd, the New York man from whom Gwen fled, arrives.

Download or read book Fragrant Harbour written by John Lanchester and published by M&S. This book was released on 2002 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four people lives intertwined for a span of seventy years in Asia.

Download or read book The Shaman s Bones written by James D. Doss and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A women of the Tohono O'otam tribe has been savagely -- and ritually -- murdered in Wyoming, outside the jurisdictions of Granite Creek, Colorado, Police Chief Scott Parris and Ute tribal policeman Charlie Moon. But a brutal, unprovoked assault by the suspected killer on one of Parris's detectives -- and the dark, unsettling visions of Charlie's shaman aunt, Daisy Perika -- are pulling two dedicated lawmen and an aging Native American mystic into the hunt. Daisy's dreams of raining blood tell her that more will die. Despite the healthy skepticism of his good friend Moon, Parris is inclined to heed the shaman's dire warnings. But the trail of a murderer is leading them all to perilous and unexpected places, where secrets of past betrayals and treacherous tribal politics are buried, and where the pursuit of a stolen Power has turned some men greedy and hungry. . .and deadly.

Download or read book Fragrant Harbour India written by Lanchester and published by . This book was released on 2003-11-20 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Morenga written by Uwe Timm and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A daring and brilliant military tactician, Morenga was fluent in several languages and by all reports a man of compassion, intelligence, and integrity, as he led his people towards freedom.

Download or read book We Are Called to Rise written by Laura McBride and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyond the bright lights and casinos lies the real Las Vegas where four lives will be brought together by one split-second choice.

Download or read book The Fragrant Harbor written by Vida Chu and published by . This book was released on 2014-10-23 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We begin with a pipa melody wafting in from the distance and a scholar lowering his wine cup, and we step inside a world that is both exotic and familiar: Magao Caves hewn by ancient monks, sleeve dancers, mountains painted Ming imperial red. What makes this world familiar is the quiet, intelligent, often whimsical, always brave voice of the poet, attentive like her scholar to the fly on the brim of a hat or cicadas with their mating calls "like marbles rattling in wooden boxes." The Fragrant Harbor travels to a distant troubled Shanxi past and a pile white bones at Lake Kokonor; to the shouting of Red Guards heard when holding a silver box shattered during the Cultural Revolution; to a time of lost innocence when a gallon of gas cost less than a donut. Vida Chu's book faces dislocation and loss and reminds us there are "no easy solutions for anything;" yet she unflinchingly propels us into the future of "grandma duty." Hers is an art of resistance in the best sense. It is a gentle art; it is a tough art. Like her "Water" that takes "Tai Chi steps . . . and pounds the rocks with fists like Kung Fu masters," Vida Chu's The Fragrant Harbor helps us to meditate on the infinite. This is poetry at its most fragrant, its most potent, its finest. -Christopher Bursk, author of The Improbable Swervings of Atoms In The Fragrant Harbor, Vida Chu takes us into vivid imagery of Chinese tales, art works, and her own childhood memories to illuminate the present world as colored by the past. Chu bears witness to an American reality as seen through her Hong Kong roots-ancient tomb sculpture, a childhood beach in Hong Kong, 1970s Beijing cyclists in "drab blue Mao suits," a 30-year-old tight dress into which she can no longer fit "no matter how much I wriggle / like a snake I cannot get back /into the molted skin." With well-chosen details and intense language she makes the reader share thoughts and feelings expressed in these poems. Her work spans the ages, a tapestry of foreign memoir and cunning observation woven together for us by Chu's gracious telling of her travel between two worlds. -Jean Hollander, author of Crushed into Honey

Download or read book The Allure of the Fragrant Harbor written by Clarence H. Peters and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Fragrant Harbor written by GarthIvan and published by . This book was released on 2015-11-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A photographic essay on the urban density, architectural moods and nature of Hong Kong and Lantau Island.