Paper Tigress : A life in the Hong Kong Government (Paperback)

from LynnB

Rachel Cartland joined the British civil service in Hong Kong upon graduating from university. She rose to senior levels, which was unusual for a woman at that time. In this book, she talks about her work experience. While the book contains many interesting anecdotes, I think it suffers from a la...

from willoughby

While a little on the dry and/or policy wonk-ish side, this book is full on interesting moments and characters. The author could have easily focused on the fish-out-of-water aspect to her story and played things for laughs, she seems more interested in giving her readers a more general, at times ...

from bruce_krafft

I really enjoyed this book. It was a nice quick read. But, when I finished I realized that there was a lot of things that it didn't tell me. I think that you could have changed "Hong Kong" to almost anywhere else in the world and would not have noticed. It seemed to lack 'flavor of place' for lac...

from nikkipierce

I really enjoyed this, a very interesting account of the author's experiences in Hong Kong. I very much enjoyed the style of writing and the detail about the operation of HK government.

from overthemoon

An insider's account of Hong Kong administration before and after the handover, well-written, informed and very readable, not at all as forbidding as one might imagine. The author is my contemporary and I particularly liked the account of her childhood and education, life at Oxford and how she em...