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Post by Deleted on Sept 7, 2020 14:21:15 GMT
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Post by sirram on Sept 7, 2020 16:53:28 GMT
What? For writing a book?
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Post by And Kevin 2024 on Sept 7, 2020 23:21:08 GMT
Indeed. Shocking it may be, and the world's powers forgets everyone now has a video recorder in their pocket, but is this to do with self-publishing?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 8, 2020 3:47:49 GMT
Indeed. Shocking it may be, and the world's powers forgets everyone now has a video recorder in their pocket, but is this to do with self-publishing? This section is called, " General Discussion You can talk about anything here." It doesn't say only talk about self-publishing. General discussions give us ideas for books. Maybe someone here will write a novel about the new Hong Kong. Here are a few books to inspire you. theculturetrip.com/asia/china/hong-kong/articles/city-of-excess-the-ten-best-books-about-hong-kong/
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Post by benziger on Sept 8, 2020 12:08:49 GMT
To create a link from Hong Kong to Publishing: I read recently a heavy book from an author of Hong Kong. He's name is Chan Ho-kei. Inspector Kwan is the Sherlock Holmes of Hong Kong. Chan Ho-kei recounts in The Borrowed the life of this mastermind by means of his most spectacular cases, creating a fascinating panorama of the metropolis and its inhabitants against the background of the political and social upheavals since 1967 — the novel follows Kwan from his experiences during the Leftist Riot in 1967, when a bombing plot threatens many lives; the conflict between the Hong Kong Police and ICAC (Independent Commission Against Corruption) in 1977; the Tiananmen Square Massacre in 1989; the Handover in 1997; and the present day of 2013, when Kwan is called on to solve his final case, the murder of a local billionaire, while Hong Kong increasingly resembles a police state. Hong Kong, today: Inspector Kwan, who is only called "The Eye of Hong Kong" out of respect for his powers of deduction, is dying. Kwan has spent his life chasing criminals and has become a legend. There his old student Sonny storms in. He asks Kwan for help in solving an extremely bizarre murder. From his deathbed, Kwan cracks a supposedly unsolvable riddle - and thus solves the last of the six cases told in this novel. The story of these cases is also the story of a big city that was once ceded to Britain, only to fall back to China a hundred years later. It's been a long time since I've read a thriller that carried me away like this. One of the six parts every evening - long after midnight... The Borrowed reveals just how closely everything is connected, how history always repeats itself, and how we have come full circle to repeat the political upheaval and societal unrest of the past. It is a gripping, brilliantly constructed novel from a talented new voice. Chan Ho-kei was born in Hong Kong in 1975, where he still lives today. He has worked as a programmer, computer game developer and manga editor. He has received several awards for his short stories and novels. The Borrowed is considered his masterpiece, which has been translated into several languages and is being filmed by Wong Kar-wai. And furthermore three covers from the same book. Not everyone looks the same... ...and I remember some of ronmiller 's posts.
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Post by And Kevin 2024 on Sept 8, 2020 23:23:09 GMT
Indeed. Shocking it may be, and the world's powers forgets everyone now has a video recorder in their pocket, but is this to do with self-publishing? This section is called, " General Discussion You can talk about anything here." It doesn't say only talk about self-publishing. General discussions give us ideas for books. Maybe someone here will write a novel about the new Hong Kong. Here are a few books to inspire you. theculturetrip.com/asia/china/hong-kong/articles/city-of-excess-the-ten-best-books-about-hong-kong/ Well, indeed it is, but it's nice to know the purpose behind a posting when it's not that obvious.
I would assume that someone currently living there would need to be the novel writer.
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Post by And Kevin 2024 on Sept 8, 2020 23:30:12 GMT
I have to assume that Chan Ho-kei still lives in Hong Kong. I cannot find anything that says he still does or not. All I can find on line repeats the same vague details about him. From what I can see of his books, none openly criticise China, no doubt that's why he's apparently still alive ...
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Post by See-Ya - NLI on Sept 8, 2020 23:47:56 GMT
Actually a good researcher could live any where they wish and write a book about a 12 to 13-year-old girl being arrested in HK for reason or reasons unknown. As for Chan Ho-Kei, my guess is he's living in Taiwan. nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chan_Ho-kei
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Post by Deleted on Sept 9, 2020 7:57:40 GMT
Actually a good researcher could live any where they wish and write a book about a 12 to 13-year-old girl being arrested in HK for reason or reasons unknown. As for Chan Ho-Kei, my guess is he's living in Taiwan. nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chan_Ho-keiI'm doing just that Cameron. I've started a story about a 12 year old girl whose parents believed in the pro-democracy movement. Their daughter Yin is a 12 year old, very clever girl and while out shopping for some school supplies she gets caught up in a pro-democracy demonstration. PS I love doing research on countries I'm interested in. I wrote a series of books on Saudi Arabia and spent hours researching the place. I do think it's easier to write about a place you know well, but it is possible to research one you've never lived in.
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Post by And Kevin 2024 on Sept 9, 2020 14:03:51 GMT
Actually a good researcher could live any where they wish and write a book about a 12 to 13-year-old girl being arrested in HK for reason or reasons unknown. That's true, but there's nothing like living it, to avoid inaccuracies, which are not always uncommon with just researched stuff. It's like that old saying, the victor writes the history. Which usually means it's often very one-sided.As for Chan Ho-Kei, my guess is he's living in Taiwan. nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chan_Ho-kei What on earth is that language?! Ah, I managed to translate it. There's seems to be no wicki page in English. I tried searching using his name and it just found this lot www.bing.com/search?q=chan+ho-kei&qs=n&form=QBRE&sp=-1&pq=chan+ho-kei&sc=4-11&sk=&cvid=3081EA0A141441759A10731857CFDE95 as I say, they all say the same thing. Is that not plagiarism? Ripping off some original's copyright?
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Post by And Kevin 2024 on Sept 9, 2020 14:14:32 GMT
Actually a good researcher could live any where they wish and write a book about a 12 to 13-year-old girl being arrested in HK for reason or reasons unknown. As for Chan Ho-Kei, my guess is he's living in Taiwan. nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chan_Ho-keiI'm doing just that Cameron. I've started a story about a 12 year old girl whose parents believed in the pro-democracy movement. Their daughter Yin is a 12 year old, very clever girl and while out shopping for some school supplies she gets caught up in a pro-democracy demonstration. PS I love doing research on countries I'm interested in. I wrote a series of books on Saudi Arabia and spent hours researching the place. I do think it's easier to write about a place you know well, but it is possible to research one you've never lived in. It is difficult if not impossible to do research on highly secretive non-democratic countries. They tend to block everything that is critical of them. Residents who questions their principles still often go 'missing', so you only get one side of the picture. The government's. They only way you can research such stuff is to actually ask a 12 year old girl living there. This is the sort of stuff that's allowed blog.feedspot.com/hong_kong_blogs/ if it was not for people with smartphones we would know nothing about what goes on in some countries. It's said the 'fall' of Communist Russia was started by the fax machine.
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