Gweilo - Memories of a Hong Kong Childhood

Informationen zum Autor Martin Booth Klappentext Related with an infectious curiosity and humour, this is a colonial childhood memoir of Hong Kong in the 1950s. Booth takes us on a journey through Chinese culture and an extinct colonial way of life as seen through the innocent eyes of a child. Zusammenfassung Shadowed by the unhappiness of his warring parents, a broad-minded mother who, like her son, was keen to embrace all things Chinese, and a bigoted father who was enraged by his family's interest in 'going native', Martin Booth's compelling memoir is a journey into Chinese culture and an extinct colonial way of life.

Product details

• Authors: Martin Booth
• Publisher: Bantam UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.08.2005
• EAN: 9780553816723
• ISBN: 978-0-553-81672-3
• No. of pages: 384
• Dimensions: 127 mm x 198 mm x 22 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, Hong Kong, Places and peoples: general and pictorial works, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs