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There were plenty of tourists: big German and Australian couples appraised cameras and Discmen in shop windows while American students rummaged through a cart of bootleg CDs. Drifting with the crowd, I sauntered among old men walking gravely with hands clasped behind their back, executive men and women hollering into bricklike cell phones, matrons strolling four and five abreast, children trotting along in shorts and suspenders, slender boys in white shirts and blue trousers, girls with dyed auburn hair and knapsack purses strapped to their backs. Columns of Chinese characters several stories high, blazing crimson or gold, stretched alongside more familiar names: Toshiba in silver and red, an aqua OK signaling karaoke. (An Australian pilot is supposed to have described the trip as eight hours of sheer boredom followed by eight minutes of sheer terror.) This magnificent arrival is impressed in my memory too, but the real thrill came later, when on a sultry March night I wandered along Nathan Road, staring up at a forest of towering neon. SOME OF THE best books on Hong Kong start with the author flying in to the old Kai Tak airport, the jumbo jet nearly scraping the rooftops of Kowloon City before wheeling around sharply to land. 186 Not So Extravagant, Not So Gratuitously Wild: Infernal Affairs.
166 Romance on Your Menu: Chungking Express. 127 Three Martial Masters: Chang Cheh, Lau Kar-leung, King Hu. 114 Motion Emotion: The Art of the Action Movie. 51 Enough to Make a Strong Man Weep: John Woo. 17 Two Dragons: Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan. v 1 | All Too Extravagant, Too Gratuitously Wild.
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