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The Blacksmith blog
http://www.blacksmithbooks.com/blog/
Blacksmith Books is a publishing house based in Hong Kong and distributed throughout all the bits of Asia that we can reach. Our focus is non-fiction with an Asian angle, though we also publish a couple of fiction titles a year. You can also find some of our books on Amazon. I’m the publisher, and this is my blog.
Recent Posts
Mike Rowse appears at bookshops in December
If you were unable to attend the FCC launch of Mike Rowse’s No Minister, have no fear — the former civil servant will be signing books at two Hong Kong bookstores in early December. Mike will first be at Dymocks in Prince’s Building...
Graham Earnshaw on Urbanatomy
Veteran Hong Kong and China journalist Graham Earnshaw — who is currently engaged on a series of walks from Shanghai to Tibet, picking up each time from the place he left off — was interviewed this week for Shanghai Urbanatomy’s Why...
Colm Tóibín in Hong Kong
If you’re in Central on Monday lunchtime, you could spend half an hour queueing up with the office drones for a bowl of instant noodles. Alternatively you could drop into Bookazine on the third floor of Prince’s Building, where prize-win...
November’s book giveaway: Sleeping Chinese
Three copies of Bernd Hagemann’s Sleeping Chinese are on their way to readers who can stay awake long enough to answer this question: There are sixty minutes in an hour. But how many winks are there in a nap? Answers to pete at blacksmithbooks ...
Air pollution in Hong Kong: great news for photographers
Judge for yourself via my six-feet-of-seaview-cam. Beautiful, yes. Good for our health, probably not. ...
The China Sex Museum at Danxiashan
Further to last month’s post about the Danxiashan national park in Guangdong, it’s worth mentioning that many of the rock formations bear uncanny resemblances to human sexual organs. (I have no photos of those, but Wikipedia does). Ancien...

