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。
评分任何对香港有一丝兴趣的人必读. 一个诗人的笔触,一个无与伦比的少年的好奇心, 一个china hand 的母亲和一个乏味刻板的父亲的尖刻矛盾,成了游览探索50年代香港的最佳调味.那个时代,香港是一个古老中国的背景,点缀着殖民者的现代化的几个热点.不出意外,除了Pen, 半岛酒店,最让金发小鬼佬感兴趣的是大排档,九龙城寨(鸦片屋,青楼,三合会), 油麻地,天后庙,九龙的邻里,遗弃的二战炮台或者清朝的炮台,台风,地震, 郊游,石澳泳滩,赤柱监狱...一切都多姿多彩,趣意盎然, 对中国鬼神的坚信不疑.. a sinophile, a china hand indeed, a true china heart inside... 只有一个问题, 广东话把街道叫Hutong?
评分任何对香港有一丝兴趣的人必读. 一个诗人的笔触,一个无与伦比的少年的好奇心, 一个china hand 的母亲和一个乏味刻板的父亲的尖刻矛盾,成了游览探索50年代香港的最佳调味.那个时代,香港是一个古老中国的背景,点缀着殖民者的现代化的几个热点.不出意外,除了Pen, 半岛酒店,最让金发小鬼佬感兴趣的是大排档,九龙城寨(鸦片屋,青楼,三合会), 油麻地,天后庙,九龙的邻里,遗弃的二战炮台或者清朝的炮台,台风,地震, 郊游,石澳泳滩,赤柱监狱...一切都多姿多彩,趣意盎然, 对中国鬼神的坚信不疑.. a sinophile, a china hand indeed, a true china heart inside... 只有一个问题, 广东话把街道叫Hutong?
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