Moon Handbooks Hong Kong: Including Macau and Guangzhou

A savvy and sophisticated handbook to one of the world's most exciting destinations. Travel writer Kerry Moran, winner of the Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Award and long-time Asia resident, reveals the Chinese heart beating beneath Hong Kong's modern Western veneer. The city's contemporary architecture, high-tech transport, and rip-roaring economy conceal a core of traditional Chinese culture, religion, and festivals. With its well-researched coverage of practical and cultural issues, Hong Kong Handbook is invaluable for travelers in any budget category.

Kerry Moran received a Bachelor of Journalism degree from the University of Missouri-Columbia in 1981. Following a year in Paris and a stint as a newspaper editor in Northern California, she moved to China in 1984 to teach English at Guangzhou's Zhongshan University. The following year she traveled overland through Tibet to Kathmandu, Nepal, where she lived for 13 years, working as a freelance writer and editor. Her articles have appeared in The Asian Wall Street Journal and a number of inflight and travel magazines. Her Nepal Handbook (Moon Publications, 1991) won the 1991 Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Award for Best Guidebook from the Society of American Travel Writers. Other books by Kerry Moran are Kailas: On Pilgrimage to the Sacred Mountain of Tibet (Thames and Hudson, 1989), Introduction to Nepal (Odyssey Publications, 1994), Hong Kong Handbook (Moon Publications, 1995), and The Kathmandu Valley (Shambhala, 1998).