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Jan 09, 2009
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By Jonathan Chamberlain

348pp, HK$17.95

Blacksmith Books, Hong Kong

In 1997, a teacher and writer named Jonathan Chamberlain was stopped on the street on Cheung Chau Island, a kind of low-cost home for teachers, musicians, journalists and others eight kilometers east of Hong Kong island itself, by a man he had known for years as a teller of tall stories an…

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