This title provides an account of expatriate life in the final years of the UK's last Asian colony, and the meeting of cultures, West with East. For Frank Wingate, who was an expatriate in Hong Kong for more than twenty years, an adventure planned to last two years turned into a lengthy love affair. The author, nicknamed 'Poxy Chicken' by his first class of Chinese students, making a pun of his name transliterated into Cantonese, recounts many amusing stories, others less amusing, comments on food, language, and sex, and on darker moments, such as the Tiananmen Square massacre.
| ISBN: | 9781784557676 |
| Publication date: | 29th May 2015 |
| Author: | Frank Wingate |
| Publisher: | Austin Macauley Publishers an imprint of Austin Macauley |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 202 pages |
| Genres: |
Memoirs |
This title provides an account of expatriate life in the final years of the UK's last Asian colony, and the meeting of cultures, West with East. For Frank Wingate, who was an expatriate in Hong Kong for more than twenty years, an adventure planned to last two years turned into a lengthy love affair.
Poxy Chicken features in the following genres: Memoirs
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Poxy Chicken was written by Frank Wingate and published by Austin Macauley Publishers an imprint of Austin Macauley
Poxy Chicken has 202 pages