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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中文版朝花夕拾啊，平淡中見奇崛。我要是英文能寫成這樣就好瞭。。
评分讀瞭快一年。。。越讀越有味兒
评分任何對香港有一絲興趣的人必讀. 一個詩人的筆觸,一個無與倫比的少年的好奇心, 一個china hand 的母親和一個乏味刻闆的父親的尖刻矛盾,成瞭遊覽探索50年代香港的最佳調味.那個時代,香港是一個古老中國的背景,點綴著殖民者的現代化的幾個熱點.不齣意外,除瞭Pen, 半島酒店,最讓金發小鬼佬感興趣的是大排檔,九龍城寨(鴉片屋,青樓,三閤會), 油麻地,天後廟,九龍的鄰裏,遺棄的二戰炮颱或者清朝的炮颱,颱風,地震, 郊遊,石澳泳灘,赤柱監獄...一切都多姿多彩,趣意盎然, 對中國鬼神的堅信不疑.. a sinophile, a china hand indeed, a true china heart inside... 隻有一個問題, 廣東話把街道叫Hutong?
评分讀瞭快一年。。。越讀越有味兒
评分A vivid picture of Hong Kong in 50s
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