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Evocative, funny and full of life, this is a beautifully observed childhood memoir of growing up in colonial Hong Kong in the 1950s.
As an inquisitive seven-year-old, Martin Booth found himself with the whole of Hong Kong at his feet when his father was posted there in the early 1950s. Unrestricted by parental control, he had free access to hidden corners of the colony normally closed to a Gweilo, a “pale fellow” like him. Befriending rickshaw coolies and local stallholders, he learned Cantonese, sampled delicacies such as boiled water beetles and one-hundred-year-old eggs, and participated in colourful festivals. He even entered the forbidden Kowloon Walled City, wandered into the secret lair of the Triads and visited an opium den. Along the way he encountered a colourful array of people, from the plink plonk man with his dancing monkey to Nagasaki Jim, a drunken child molester, and the Queen of Kowloon, the crazed tramp who may have been a member of the Romanov family.
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 that glows with infectious curiosity and humour.
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Martin这个小鬼老，在书中无异于HK-hand，逃课穿梭于香港的大街小巷，跟着妈妈成为探索香港的狂热分子。我只是一直纳闷，作者写这本书时已经过半百了，何以保存如此栩栩如生的童年记忆，要知道Martin当时的年纪也才八九岁。
评分看了一大半。 明显港岛山顶别墅生活没有 九龙多彩
评分中文版朝花夕拾啊，平淡中见奇崛。我要是英文能写成这样就好了。。
评分讀了快一年。。。越讀越有味兒
评分今天上午读完，感觉是本学期life writing书单里最喜欢的一部，语言风格简洁不做作，故事情节清晰环环相扣，四星。
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