Fortune's Bazaar - by Vaudine England (Hardcover)

Hong Kong's history is full of diverse peoples from different cultures and ethnic backgrounds who have made this one-time fishing village into a world port city.

Fortune's Bazaar tells the story of these overlooked individuals, including opium traders who built synagogues and churches, ship owners carrying gold-rush migrants, and half-Dutch, half-Chinese gentlemen with two wives who was knighted by Queen Victoria.

This book provides a vivid and entertaining guide to the history of Hong Kong, rich in anecdote and understanding for an early globalized world that has gone.

Vaudine England's well-written take on the historical record is likely to delight anyone who loves Hong Kong.

With deep research, an ambitious swath of Hong Kong social history, notable for particular insights about Eurasian entrepreneurs and dynasties, Fortune's Bazaar is a formidable and important work of historical scholarship that rejects a tale-of-two-cities approach to the history of Hong Kong's colonization, embracing the in-between lives of those who made it.