[DOWNLOAD] Hitchhiking to Hong Kong by Thomas Gorman ~ eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free

Gorman’s rollicking tales begin with hitchhiking to Hong Kong and starting a China-oriented publishing company there in the mid-1970s when Chairman Mao was still at the helm in Beijing . Here you’ll find encounters with evil spirits in his garden; hilarious cross-cultural communication bloopers and interpreting snafus; an owl in the casino; an idyllic island in Hong Kong with only two residents; an invasion of rats in a leading Guangzhou hotel; a drunken Saturday night stroll through a small city in Sichuan arm-in-arm with the diminutive but powerful County Chief; fishing in a remote Alpine Lake near the Sino-Russian border; and an 11-hour drive from Guangzhou to Shenzhen when the latter was still a muddy construction site. These stories provide insight into the transition years between the Mao and post-Mao era in Hong Kong and mainland China, in an entertaining and highly readable narrative. Poetry and the author’s photographs from the era add texture and depth to the memoir.