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- The Best China
- 2021
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- Published by: The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press
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The Best China, an expression traditionally used to refer to the finest crockery brought out when one is entertaining special guests, has been adapted here to mean the Best Chinese Tradition of free-thinking discursive prose. This anthology of essays from Hong Kong and the diaspora, ranging across the past hundred and seventy years, records the intellectual ferment that has always characterised the city since its founding in 1842, sometimes restless and questioning, sometimes meditative and lyrical, always civilised, and buoyed by an all-pervasive and indomitable spirit of freedom.
Table of Contents
- Series Editor's Preface
- pp. v-viii
- Acknowledgements
- pp. ix-x
- Translations
- pp. xi-xii
- Table of Contents
- pp. xiv-xv
- Introduction
- pp. xvi-xxix
- Section I. Forerunners
- 'The Poetry of the Chinese'
- pp. 3-10
- 'Nymphs of Perfect Beauty'
- pp. 11-24
- 'James Legge & Hong Kong'
- pp. 31-42
- 'Chinese Street-Cries of Hongkong'
- pp. 43-54
- 'The Bamboo'
- pp. 59-66
- 'The Singsong Girls of Canton'
- pp. 67-90
- 'I Got My Ideas in Hong Kong'
- pp. 91-96
- Section II. More Recent Times
- 'Cutting Grass'
- pp. 99-114
- 'Bannerman in Hong Kong'
- pp. 115-120
- 'Shelley Street'
- pp. 121-136
- 'Somerset Maugham and My Father'
- pp. 137-168
- 'That Little Brat Trinket'
- pp. 169-188
- 'The Many Faces of Louis Cha'
- pp. 189-202
- 'Freedom and Information'
- pp. 209-220
- 'Back in the Year 1984'
- pp. 221-228
- 'Memories of Wong Siu-kit'
- pp. 235-240
- 'The Walled City of Kowloon'
- pp. 267-270
- 'The Sorrows of Lan Kwai Fong'
- pp. 271-274
- 'A Conversation with Mahler in Paradise'
- pp. 275-290
- 'The Drawer'
- pp. 291-296
- 'Getting High' and Other Essays
- pp. 301-314
- 'Memento Mori'
- pp. 335-339
- Back Cover
- p. 341
Additional Information
ISBN
9789882378575
Related ISBN
9789882371972
MARC Record
OCLC
1228116269
Pages
280
Launched on MUSE
2021-01-17
Language
English
Open Access
No
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