Hong Kong is a colourful city where East meets
West, lives are made and lost. Hong Kong superstar and world famous author,
revolutionaries and philanthropists, emperors and pirates, generals and
businessmen: this book comprises short biographies of people who have made
history here. Meet Kung fu artist
Bruce Lee, writer Chang
Ai-ling,the Cantonese opera singer Sun Ma Sze-tsang and Sir Matthew Nathan who moved mountains to build
Nathan Road. Discover how Doctor Manson shook up the medical world by proving
that malaria was transmitted by mosquitoes, and how Reverend Carl Smith shook
up local history by writing from the standpoint of Hongkongers. Jane Houng has
selected thirty interesting characters from Hong Kong’s past and brought them
to life for children.