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A long-term resident of Hong Kong, Bickley explores The Back Door , a fictional war story depicting a successful Franco-Russian attack on Hong Kong. Published anonymously in 1897 as a serial in The China Mail and reissued the same year by the China Mail Office as a pamphlet, the story is reproduced here as part of this volume. Bickley discusses The
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Review: the Asian Review of Books


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 The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet David Mitchell Set in Japan in the early 19th-century, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet is part historical fiction, part mystery/thriller, and part swashbuckler. That the author, David Mitchell, can pull all this together is a tribute to his... [ Read full review ] |
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