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Butcher, Tim 1967- Travel Congo (Democratic Republic) China Hong Kong Congo (Democratic Republic) Congo (Democratic Republic) Description and travel Congo (Democratic Republic) Description and travel Juvenile literature Congo (Democratic Republic) History Congo River Description and travel Hong Kong (China) Biography Hong Kong (China) Politics and government Manners and customsWasserstrom, Jeffrey N
Summary: "On the frontlines of the battle for democracy in China The rise of Hong Kong is the story of a miraculous post-War boom, when Chinese refugees flocked to a small British colony, and, in less than fifty years, transformed it into one of the great financial centers of the world. The unraveling of Hong Kong, on the other hand, shatters the grand illusion of China ever having the intention of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia Global Reports 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 951.2506 WASWoods, Vanessa
Summary: Traces how a Discovery Channel writer and her scientist fianc šettled in a Bonobo sanctuary in war-torn Congo, where their research enabled greater understanding of the characteristics and largely peaceful culture of the rare ape that shares 98.7 percent of human DNA.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gotham Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 599 WOOReid, Stuart A.
Summary: "A spellbinding work of history that reads like a Cold War spy thriller-about the US-sanctioned plot to assassinate the democratically elected leader of the newly independent Congo"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023
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Summary: "In a place where time is running out, sometimes the most radical act is remembrance. Hong Kong has long been known as a city of extremes: a former colony of the United Kingdom that today exists at the margins of an authoritarian, ascendant China; a city rocked by mass protests, where residents take to the streets to rally against encroaching threats on their democracy and freedoms. But it is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CHEUNG, KAREN CHELim, Louisa
Summary: "An award-winning journalist and longtime Hong Konger indelibly captures the place, its people, and the untold history they are claiming, just as it is being erased. Lim's deeply researched-and deeply personal-account casts often startling new light on key moments: the British takeover in 1842, the negotiations leading to its "return" to China in 1997, the current protests, and the future...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303.48 LIMWong, Edward
Summary: "The son of Chinese immigrants in Washington, DC, Edward Wong grew up among family secrets. His father toiled in Chinese restaurants and rarely spoke of his native land or his years in the People's Liberation Army under Mao. Yook Kearn Wong came of age during the Japanese occupation in World War II and the Communist revolution, when he fell under the spell of Mao's promise of a powerful China....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House, LLC 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 WONClifford, Mark
Summary: "Jimmy Lai escaped mainland China when he was twelve years old, at the height of a famine that killed tens of millions. In Hong Kong, he hustled; no work was beneath him, and he often slept on a table in a clothing factory where he did odd jobs. At twenty-one, he was running a factory. By his mid-twenties, he owned one and was supplying sweaters and shirts to some of the biggest brands in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LAI, JIMMY CLIEngland, Vaudine
Summary: "Hong Kong has always been many cities to many people: a seaport, a gateway to an empire, a place where fortunes can be dramatically made or lost, a place to disappear and reinvent oneself, and a mixing pot of diverse populations from literally everywhere around the globe. A British Crown Colony for 155 years, Hong Kong is now ruled by the Chinese Communist Party who continues to threaten its...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 951.2506 ENGStine, Megan
Summary: Introduces the Congo rain forest, describing how large it is, the unique plants and animals that live there, and why conserving the Congo is so important.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 916.751 STIHeale, Jay
Summary: Describes the geography, history, government, economy, people, lifestyle, religion, languages, arts, leisure, festivals, and food of the third largest country in Africa, a former colony of Belgium.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cavendish Square 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 967.51 HEAKara, Siddharth
Summary: "An unflinching investigation reveals the human rights abuses behind the Congo's cobalt mining operation-and the moral implications that affect us all. Cobalt Red is the searing, first-ever exposé of the immense toll taken on the people and environment of the Democratic Republic of the Congo by cobalt mining, as told through the testimonies of the Congolese people themselves. Activist and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2023
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Summary: The author recounts his audacious and perilous quest through the Congo as he retraced the 1874 expedition of explorer H. M. Stanley to map the Congo River, traveling alone with an assortment of vehicles, including a motorbike and dugout canoe, and aided by characters ranging from U.N. aid workers to a pygmy-rights advocate.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2008