Vickie Chan - Hong Kong - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture

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ISBN 978 1 85733 869 0

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Series Editor Geoffrey Chesler

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About the Author

CLARE VICKERS is an English writer who lived in Hong Kong for eighteen years. Her husband was a member of the Hong Kong government until 1997, and contributed to the history and government sections of this book. She has a degree in modern languages and has written several dictionaries and textbooks for Hong Kong schools, had a column in the educational section of the South China Morning Post, and is the author of Escape, a Story of Wartime Hong Kong, written for Hong Kong teenagers.

VICKIE CHAN is a Hong Kong-based writer, illustrator/artist, and creative director who was educated and grew up in the United Kingdom. After a lifetime of traveling between West and East, she settled in Hong Kong in 2006. Since then she has written for the South China Morning Post, China Daily, Gafencumagazine, and the Hong Kong Trade Development Council, among others. Her main focuses are on art and design, education, culture, lifestyle, travel, and digital.

The Culture Smart! series is continuing to expand. All Culture Smart! guides are available as e-books, and many as audio books.

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The publishers would like to thank CultureSmart!Consulting for its help in researching and developing the concept for this series.

CultureSmart!Consulting creates tailor-made seminars and consultancy programs to meet a wide range of corporate, public-sector, and individual needs. Whether delivering courses on multicultural team building in the USA, preparing Chinese engineers for a posting in Europe, training call-center staff in India, or raising the awareness of police forces to the needs of diverse ethnic communities, it provides essential, practical, and powerful skills worldwide to an increasingly international workforce.

For details, visit www.culturesmartconsulting.com

CultureSmart!Consulting and CultureSmart!guides have both contributed to and featured regularly in the weekly travel program Fast Track on BBC World TV.

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