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In this “moody thriller,” a family business is targeted for takeover as control of Hong Kong shifts from the British to the Chinese (The New York Times). Ninety-nine years of colonial rule are ending as the British prepare to hand over Hong Kong to China. Betty Mullard and her son, Bunt, have lived here for years, mostly keeping apart from their foreign surroundings, except for some ...
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8 de jun. de 1997 · Bunt drives off in his father's 1958 Rover to Imperial Stitching, the family factory in Kowloon Tong, which the Mullards own with a Chinese-hating Chinese entrepreneur named Mr. Chuck. Typically, it will take a Chinese mainlander to let Bunt know that ''Kowloon Tong'' is Cantonese for ''Nine Dragons' Pond.'' ''Everything means something,'' Bunt sniffs, with the dragon's breath already on him.
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14 de feb. de 2024 · Kowloon Tong: A Novel of Hong Kong by Paul Theroux. Publication date 2002 Publisher Penguin Books, Limited Collection inlibrary; printdisabled; internetarchivebooks Contributor Internet Archive Language English. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2024-02-14 02:56:06 Boxid IA1847202 Camera
Paul Theroux talks about his novel, Kowloon Tong, and the implications of the Hong Kong handover July 3, 1997 "Style is not very important, style's nothing really," V. S. Naipaul once told Paul ...
28 de may. de 1997 · Paul Theroux's Kowloon Tong is a novel about the British handover of their Hong Kong Crown Colony to the Red Chinese in 1997. Born in Hong Kong, Bump is a Brit who owns a textile firm that the new owners of the colony have their eyes on as a possible Peoples Liberation Army center.
