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Jonathan Chamberlain’s King Hui: The Man Who Owned All the Opium in Hong Kong

In the years before the latter’s death at the age of 79, Jonathan Chamberlain spent an evening a week recording the stories told by Peter Hui. The resulting biography tells, in Hui’s own words, of scandal and corruption, drugs and pirates, triads and flower boats; of Japanese invasion and Communist intrigue; the real story of Hong Kong, told with the rich flavours of the street.

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