NEW Hong Kong historical biography OUT SOON
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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
Philip Jacks
Hi Rohan,
It'd be good if you can also add a page for Philip Jacks with basic dates etc: http://gwulo.com/node/add/person
How did you get to know of his story, and then want to write about it? Is there a family connection?
Regards, David
Re: Philip Jacks
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