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Hudson River Crossings
The commitment of Wai Yip Law to marry an Asian Catholic, a conviction that grows out mainly due to his faith, and partly due to his conflicting Chinese and American values, means he is still single in his early thirties. Alone in New Jersey without friend or family, his search for a companion leads him to a fateful acquaintance with Irene. A Vietnamese girl who has had a nightmarish relationship with her first love, Irene's bitter memory causes her to feel insecure with men, to the point of being emotionally cruel. Pushed ever deeper into the tumultuous entanglement with Irene, Wai Yip turns mentally unstable and depressed, eventually to the brink of attempting suicide. Saved from taking his own life by a freak accident, he becomes obsessed with revenge, using it as a pretext to abandon his own morality along the path of a twisted vengeance
The Footbridge
Is it ethical for a teacher to use the students' performance as a stepping-stone for career advancement? Is it fair for a student with personal problems to expect sympathetic considerations in academic assessment? These are issues faced by a college professor and his struggling student. Seemingly at opposite ends of the moral spectrum, their lives in fact have much in common. Yet unyielding attitudes in personal philosophy render communication between them impossible. A tale of self-righteousness and cynicism told from two perspectives, The Footbridge shows how a slight error in judgment, initiated by an uncompromising observance to principles, or the lack of them, can get out of hand, leading to unpredictable consequences.
Hudson River Crossings
The commitment of Wai Yip Law to marry an Asian Catholic, a conviction that grows out mainly due to his faith, and partly due to his conflicting Chinese and American values, means he is still single in his early thirties. Alone in New Jersey without friend or family, his search for a companion leads him to a fateful acquaintance with Irene. A Vietnamese girl who has had a nightmarish relationship with her first love, Irene's bitter memory causes her to feel insecure with men, to the point of being emotionally cruel. Pushed ever deeper into the tumultuous entanglement with Irene, Wai Yip turns mentally unstable and depressed, eventually to the brink of attempting suicide. Saved from taking his own life by a freak accident, he becomes obsessed with revenge, using it as a pretext to abandon his own morality along the path of a twisted vengeance...
The Last of China's Literati
In this biography of Tsar Teh-yun, centenarian poet, calligrapher, and qin master, Professor Bell Yung tells the story of a life steeped in the refined arts faithful to the traditional way of the Chinese literati. Set in the two cities of Shanghai and Hong Kong, this book recounts the experiences of an individual who lived through war, displacement, exile, and unrequited longing for home and for a style of living lost forever. Yet Madame Tsar sustained, as one of its last exemplars, much of that style of living despite being a woman in the largely male world of the refined arts. The author weaves a picture of an extraordinary but also tragic figure: extraordinary as daughter, wife, mother, a...
Southern District Officer Reports
This is a collection of administrative dispatches from the 1910s through the early 1960s which illuminate not only rural life in Hong Kong but also Hong Kong government policies during the post-World War II period. The authors of the reports include such notable figures as Eric Hamilton, Walter Schofield, S. H. Peplow, Paul Tsui, Austin Coates, and James Hayes. The volume is another important addition to the Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Studies series, which has played a vital role in reviving and sustaining local history.
