Skylines: Hong Kong - Hardcover

Peter Moss; Moss, Peter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9627283398 ISBN 13: 9789627283393

Publisher: Formasia Books Ltd, 2000

Synopsis

Hong Kong's skyline is ever in transition, a flamboyant affirmation of this city's determination to let nothing stand in its way as it forges full steam ahead into the future. Such unquenchable aspirations produce a seemingly endless succession of architectural marvels, but leave too little trace of historical, driving spirit of a metropolis forever creating better and grander manirestations of itself, and as a reminder of whence it came, as enchrined in the few traces of antiquity that survive that headlong progress.

About this title

About the Author:

Peter Moss has made Hong Kong his home since 1965. He was here for the spillover of the Cultural Revolution in 1967, while the return of this former Bitish colony to China in 1997 marked the third imperial retreat to which he bore withness-the others being India in 1947 and Malaya in 1967. Aside from his novel The Singing Tree, (Bloomsbury), his published works include: Bye-Bye Blackbird and Distant Archipelagos, the first two volumes of an eventual triptych autobiography recounting his years in India, Malaya and Hong Kong.

Review:

I particularly like the shape (tall and narrow) The content is typical FormAsia magnificent (The Asia Architectural Digest). Truly representative of the Hong Kong of the new millennium -- The Asia Magazine

About this edition

• Publisher: Formasia Books Ltd
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 9627283398
• ISBN 13: 9789627283393
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 159
• Editor: James Cox
• Illustrator: Ian Leung