Diamond Hill: Memories of Growing Up in a Hong Kong Squatter Village

"Diamond Hill was one of the poorest and most backward of villages in Hong Kong at a time when Hong Kong itself was poor and backward. We moved there in 1956 when I was almost 10. I left when I was 19. Those were the formative years of my life. It’s a time that I remember well and cherish."

This memoir of a native son of a Kowloon-side squatter village—the first book ever on Diamond Hill, in either Chinese or English—presents the early days of a life shaped by a now-extinct community. Feng C...