NEW Hong Kong historical biography OUT SOON

Submitted by rohanprice on Sun, 10/23/2016 - 17:31

New Hong Kong biographical history title coming out 27 October: Going Native: The Passions of Philip Jacks by Rohan Price. Publisher: Australian Scholarly Publishing. 

Download the cover/blurb here: https://www.academia.edu/29377079/GN_cover_and_blurb.docx

Read the preface here: https://www.academia.edu/28702119/Going_Native_the_preface

You can pre-order it here: http://scholarly.info/book/510/

It will have a Hong Kong retailer if local demand is sufficient!

Updates on Twitter: @Price70 or here on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GoingNative2016/

Happy to mentor if anyone has aspirations in biography/memoir/travel/archive-based writing.

Any questions? Happy to answer through a thread here.

Peace and happy reading, Rohan

Hi David,

Many thanks for the suggestion.

The gwulo.com biography of Jacks, along with the story of why I was interested in him, can be viewed here:

http://gwulo.com/node/35106

For Hong Kongers, our venerable old China Hands in Oz and the eternally curious: please come to the Southern Cross Uni book launch in Lismore, NSW on 10 November

https://twitter.com/Price70/status/789264366449233924

RSVP: kim.assim@scu.edu.au

Wine, readings and tapas. All free! The HK love will be zinging around...

Best, Rohan