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Navigating life's complexities with witty resilience.

"Paper Tigress" might resonate with you if you're in the mood for a story that encapsulates the bittersweetness of confronting life's challenges. The protagonist's journey, peppered with humor and grit, can inspire you to find your own strength in adversity. It's a tale that doesn't shy away from the messiness of life, yet shows that perseverance and a sharp tongue can carry one through the toughest of times.

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ISBN: 9789881900388
Authors: Rachel Cartland
Publisher: Blacksmith Books
Date of Publication: 2014-01-07
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Biographies & Memoirs, History, Politics
Goodreads rating: 4.07
(rated by 14 readers)

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Rachel Cartland came to Hong Kong in 1972 as one of just two female expatriates in the Hong Kong Government’s elite administrative grade. Before she retired in 2006, her life was shaped by the momentous events that rocked Hong Kong during those action-packed years: corruption and the police mutiny, the growth of the new towns, the currency crisis of 1983, Tiananmen Square, the change of sovereignty and the devastation of SARS. The backdrop to her story ranges from Kowloon’s infamous Walled City to Government House to the rural New Territories. Paper Tigress is full of humour and incident and, at the same time, an accessible account of modern Hong Kong and the forces that shaped it.
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Navigating life's complexities with witty resilience.

"Paper Tigress" might resonate with you if you're in the mood for a story that encapsulates the bittersweetness of confronting life's challenges. The protagonist's journey, peppered with humor and grit, can inspire you to find your own strength in adversity. It's a tale that doesn't shy away from the messiness of life, yet shows that perseverance and a sharp tongue can carry one through the toughest of times.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.