Paper Tigress

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 events that rocked Hong Kong during those momentous years: corruption and the police mutiny, currency crisis, Tiananmen Square, the change of sovereignty and the devastation of SARS. This accessible account of modern Hong Kong ranges from Kowloon s infamous Walled City to Government House to the villages of the New Territories."