num_pages: 326
description: In its last days under British rule, the Crown Colony of Hong Kong is the world's most exciting city, at once fascinating and exasperating, a tangle of contradictions. It is a dazzling amalgam of conspicuous consumption and primitive poverty, the most architecturally incongruous yet undeniably beautiful urban panorama of all. World-renowned travel writer Jan Morris offers the most insightful and comprehensive study of the enigma of Hong Kong thus far.
language: English
title: Hong Kong, the End of an Empire
titlecomplete: Hong Kong, the End of an Empire
genres: Travelogue, Geography, Asia, Cities, LGBT, Nonfiction, China, Travel, Research, History
ratings_count: 356
places: Hong Kong
publisher: Penguin Group