Adrift – My Childhood In Colonial Singapore
In 1935, six-year-old Tzi Ki was taken away from his mother in Canton, by his grandmother, to live at Blair Road in Singapore. This is the first part of David T. K. Wong’s multi-volume family memoir. It traces of his tumultuous growing-up years from his birth in Hong Kong, his early years in Canton, his childhood in Singapore…
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Hong Kong Fiascos: A Struggle For Survival
After four years as a war-tossed refugee in Australia, David T. K. Wong set out in 1947 on a Messageries Maritimes ship for his family’s adopted home in Hong Kong, that little rump of alienated China flying the Union Jack. He found the place edgy, rambunctious, anachronistic and anomalous, trying to survive the misfortunes and hardships…
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Hong Kong Confidential : Life as a Subversive
A former senior Chinese Administrative Officer has at long last lifted another little corner of the veil of half-truths and anodyne official releases which had hitherto shrouded many of the decisions and evasions under the long governorship of Sir Murray MacLehose…
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Love, Money & Friendship
In 1981, David Wong retired after 20 years as an administrative officer in the Hong Kong Government to chance his arm in the city’s cut-throat free market, as the managing director of a large multinational trading corporation. He soon discovered more legal and ethical boobytraps in business than he had bargained for…
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