Fortune's Bazaar

Book cover of Fortune's Bazaar: The Making of Hong Kong

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A timely, well-researched, and “illuminating” (The New York Times Book Review) new history of Hong Kong that reveals the untold stories of the diverse peoples who have made it a multicultural world metropolis—and whose freedoms are endangered today.

Hong Kong has always been many cities to many people: a seaport,…

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Why read it?

1 author picked Fortune's Bazaar as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Susan Blumberg-Kason

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Hong Kong is my favorite city and I spent most of my 20s studying and working there. I thought I knew a lot about its history, but this book shows that it’s much more layered than one may think.

Yes, Hong Kong was a colonial city, but it was mainly built by people who came to East Asia from the Middle East and India. I think books like this are more important than ever because people are so quick to look at history in black and white terms, but like Hong Kong, there many more people involved in making a…

From Susan's 3 favorite reads in 2023.