KING HUI: THE MAN WHO OWNED ALL THE OPIUM IN HONG KONG
by CHAMBERLAIN, JONATHAN
List Price: HK$ 140.00
¡@ISBN
9789889979980
¡@Subject
HONG KONG
¡@Publisher
BLACKSMITH BOOKS
¡@Publication
2010
¡@Edition
Paperback
¡@Version
Original
¡@Description
From the start of the Korean war to the end of the Vietnam war, Hong Kong was a major R&R centre for soldiers and sailors. And there were thousands of local people who made their money making sure these visitors had a good time and got the suits and the girls they wanted. In fact they didn¡¦t just wait for their customers to arrive ¡V they sailed out in a flotilla of small boats to greet the ships as they entered the harbour. These were the tailor shop orders. Peter Hui was one of them. Before he took to being a tailor he had been a famous kung fu fighter; a rich playboy, a regular frequenter of the pleasure houses of Macau; a gambler; the brains behind a gang of armed robbers; an associate of triads ¡V and, before all that, he had been the owner of the biggest string of Mongolian ponies at the Hong Kong Jockey Club. This book is not just one man¡¦s story. It is the story of a time and place!
