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Diamond Hill: Memories of Growing Up in a Hong Kong Squatter Village

Author Feng Chi-shun
Publisher Blacksmith Books
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Author(s)Feng Chi-shun
ISBN / ASIN9881774241
ISBN-139789881774248
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Sales Rank1,786,397
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸

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Diamond Hill was one of the poorest and most backward of villages in Hong Kong when Hong Kong itself was poor and backward. Feng Chi-shun moved there in 1956, at the age of nine, as a refugee from China. As he grew up and saw friends become gamblers, triad gangsters and drug peddlers, he realized that self-improvement was the only way out of poverty. A warm memoir of a hard time and place.