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King Hui
原價:
HK$140.00 
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HK$133
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商品簡介 |
| From the start of the Korean war to the end of
the Vietnam war, Hong Kong was a major R&R centre for soldiers and
sailors. And there were thousands of local people who made their money
making sure these visitors had a good time and got the suits and the girls
they wanted. In fact they didnt just wait for their customers to arrive
they sailed out in a flotilla of small boats to greet the ships as they
entered the harbour. And then, when the ships had anchored, they shimmied
up the anchor chain to be the first to get the orders for shirts and
trousers. These were the tailor shop order men. Peter Hui was one of them.
But who was Peter? What was his story?
Well, before he took to being a tailor he
had been a famous kung fu fighter; a rich playboy, a regular frequenter of
the pleasure houses of Macau; a gambler (he had run three gambling joints
in Canton when the Communists walked in); the brains behind a gang of
armed robbers (he alone escaped arrest when their third robbery went
wrong); an associate of triads and, before all that, he had been the
owner of the biggest string of Mongolian ponies at the Hong Kong Jockey
Club that was during the war years when he was a leading collaborator of
the Japanese. He had once, for a very short time, owned all the opium in
Hong Kong!
Later, after his tailoring days had gone
flat, he was paid by a CIA officer to report on events in China. This was
during the tumultuous years
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