Blacksmith Books: 13 books
Wing Chun Warrior
The True Tales of Wing Chun Kung Fu Master Duncan Leung, Bruce Lee's Fighting Companion
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2010
The story of Duncan Leung ? childhood friend of Bruce Lee, disciple of legendary master Yip Man, and New York kung fu teacher ? is valuable not only for its insights into martial arts but also for its portrayal of the lost Hong Kong of the 1950s and 1960s. Each anecdote is introduced with a proverb or...
King Hui
The Man Who Owned All the Opium in Hong Kong
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2010
Some periods in history are best illuminated by the stories of the people who lived through them. This is one such story ? the bizarre but true account of Peter Hui, a man involved with scandal, corruption, drugs, pirates, triads and colonial high society; who collaborated with the Japanese, spied on...
The Great Walk of China
Travels on Foot from Shanghai to Tibet
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2010
What kind of people would you meet if you decided to walk across the world's most populous country? The Great Walk of China is a journey into China's heartland, away from its surging coastal cities. Through surprisingly frank conversations with the people he meets along the way, the Chinese-speaking...
Business Republic of China
Tales from the Front Line of China's New Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2010
Jack Leblanc shares the lessons he has learnt in 20 years of doing business in China. His career has included stints as a salesman, dotcom entrepreneur, venture capital broker, business consultant, and finally cross-cultural troubleshooter, solving problems between foreign investors and their Chinese...
Year of Fire Dragons
An American Woman's Story of Coming of Age in Hong Kong
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
In 2010, bookish 22-year-old Shannon follows her Eurasian boyfriend to Hong Kong, eager to forge a new love story in his hometown. But when work sends him to London a month later, Shannon embarks on a wide-eyed newcomer's journey through Hong Kong – alone.She teaches in a local school as the only foreigner,...
Diamond Hill
Memories of Growing Up in a Hong Kong Squatter Village
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2010
Diamond Hill was one of the poorest and most backward of villages in Hong Kong when Hong Kong itself was poor and backward. Feng Chi-shun moved there in 1956, at the age of nine, as a refugee from China. As he grew up and saw friends become gamblers, triad gangsters and drug peddlers, he realized that self-improvement was the only way out of poverty. A warm memoir of a hard time and place.
Waiting for the Dalai Lama
Stories from All Sides of the Tibetan Debate
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
Why does the issue of Tibet rouse such passions on both sides? To find out, Annelie Rozeboom interviewed Tibetans inside and outside Tibet, as well as Chinese and Western observers and the Dalai Lama himself. As these people explain their experiences, the reader sees why they think the way they do, and...
Wordjazz for Stevie
How a Profoundly Handicapped Girl Gave Her Father the Gifts of Pain and Love
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2010
How could a girl born with a genetic defect - who later suffered brain damage leaving her blind, epileptic and physically handicapped, and who lived only eight years - change the world? Wordjazz for Stevie is a letter written to Stevie by her father after she had died to try to explain to her (and...
Eating Smoke
One Man's Descent into Drug Psychosis in Hong Kong's Triad Heartland
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
Chris Thrall left the Royal Marines to find his fortune in Hong Kong, but instead found himself homeless and addicted to crystal meth. Soon he began working for the 14K, Hong Kong's largest crime family, in the Wanchai red-light district. Dealing with the 'foreign triad' - a secretive expat clique...
by Jonathan Chamberlain
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2011
There is a darkness in men's hearts that war sets free. When their war is over, they bring that darkness back home with them. It's a short trail from the jungles of Vietnam to the forests of the Appalachian Mountains. A complex tale involves a journey back to Vietnam and into the dark past: a past where...
With Bare Hands
The True Story of Alain Robert, the Real-life Spiderman
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2010
Alain Robert spent his youth on the unforgiving cliffs of southern France, climbing with his bare hands, with no ropes for protection. In 1982 he fell head-first onto solid rock, suffering a five-day coma and multiple fractures. He was told he would never climb again. But this didn't stop him. In 1994,...
Whispers and Moans
Interviews with the Men and Women of Hong Kong's Sex Industry
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2010
With glitzy nightclubs, saunas, karaoke lounges and brothels, Hong Kong's sex business is booming. But how do local prostitutes compete with an endless supply of girls from China? To find out, Yang spent a year with the city's hookers. The result is an eye-opening book which shows the human side of sex...
Don't Joke on the Stairs
How I Learned to Navigate China by Breaking Most of the Rules
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2011
Learn Chinese the natural way - from a Norwegian! Join Cantonese fundamentalist Cecilie Gamst Berg as she journeys through the non-stop surrealism that is today's China. Traveling by camel, sleeper bus and train across the deserts of Xinjiang, through the backwoods of Tibet, over the mountains of Sichuan...