Saturday, January 29, 2011

Book: Diamond Hill, Memoirs of growing up in a Hong Kong Squatter Village

I read the book review a couple of month before the book was released. - It is a must-read book for anyone who grew up in Hong Kong in the 1950s and 1960s! The author gives many insights into a low-income neighborhood ... actually it was a refugee neighborhood at that time. Many people escaped from Communist China in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

This book reminds me Martin Booth's book, Gweilo: Memories of a Hong Kong Childhood. This book is written by a Chinese native Hong Kong while Gweilo is told from a British boy who grew up in Hong Kong.

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