Updates

  1. Person pages list letters, writing, profiles and links as sortable tables with filters, and show each person's companies as links; Fund letters show each letter's description in its own column.
  2. Experts show a checked job title and a short description of each person; 30 more people have photographs.
  3. Every company, fund, university and publication the experts work for has a page listing the people there.
  4. Fund letters show each letter's thesis and filter by it; 225 person pages list the essays, columns and newsletter issues the person wrote.
  5. Person pages list every essay and newsletter issue a person wrote, and their own books as a table in List view.
  6. Recommends shows the five largest kinds of book and the rest under More; browse pictures load sooner.
  7. Podcasts and talks link the original episode, filter by Audio and video or Press, and list each publisher once.
  8. Pages are wider, Recommends has List and Grid, and a filter clicked again turns off.
  9. Book cards sit in a ruled grid with Open Library and Goodreads links and each book's one-line note.
  10. Funds is now Investors; each investor's styles are buttons that filter the table.
  11. Podcasts and talks on a person's page filter by year and publisher and show as a list or a grid of pictures.
  12. Quotes show only people's own words: 472 summaries written by list sites are gone.
  13. Country pages open from Browse again, and every link on the shelf lands on a page.
  14. Subject and person pages show their sections as tabs, and each book appears once on a person's page.
  15. Book cards show the quote, who said it and the source; grids show five cards to a row.
  16. On a phone, a menu holds the sections, search, Updates, Feedback and dark mode.
  17. Feedback takes a screenshot of the page with no browser prompt, opens a screenshot full size when you click it, and clears itself once sent.
  18. Book cards are centred, search names the topic each book sits in, and any text cut short shows whole on hover.
  19. Search groups its results by kind: people, companies, geographies, subjects, topics, books, funds, fund letters and papers.
  20. The Books table lists who recommended each book by name, and the browser tab names the section you are in.
  21. Feedback can take a screenshot of the page, or one you paste or choose, and opens in the corner beside Updates.
  22. Each rail button reopens its section where you left it, and Browse, Table and People show on every book and subject page.
  23. Filters grey out choices that hold nothing instead of hiding them, and Books › People filters by authors or recommenders.
  24. Feedback takes a subject line and up to three screenshots.
  25. Biographies are grouped by the person they are about: 41 new pages, from Abraham Lincoln to Lee Kuan Yew.
  26. Sport splits into 23 sports, and Religion into one topic per faith.
  27. Book lists show as cards: the cover, one recommendation quote and every recommender by name.
  28. Seventeen subjects that had two or three pages under different names now have one page each.
  29. Every page lists its Experts as authors and recommenders, with a link to them on the Experts tab.
  30. Economics, Financial history, Financial panics and Accounting are subjects of their own, with one page per financial crisis.
  31. Book, person and subject pages open inside the app, so the tabs stay in view.
  32. 996 more book covers, and photographs or logos for 227 more people and companies.
  33. Books › Browse shows every subject as cards, and the rail holds Fund letters, Papers, Experts, Books and Funds.
  34. Every topic over 150 books splits into narrower topics, each with a page of its own.

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Hong Kong

Asia Pacific

A currency-board economy whose domestic wealth is concentrated in a property cartel fed by restricted land sales, and whose role as China's offshore financial window has changed materially since 2020.

Books 9Experts 2

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  1. Asian GodfathersJoe Studwell, 2007
  2. Architect of ProsperityNeil Monnery, 2017
  3. Land and the Ruling Class in Hong KongAlice Poon, 2005
Hong Kong: Epilogue to an EmpireHong Kong: Epilogue to an Empire
T2 Hong Kong: Epilogue to an Empire
Jan Morris · 1988
Open LibraryGoodreads

Hong Kong at its commercial peak, before the handover to China.

Asian GodfathersAsian Godfathers
T2 Asian Godfathers
Joe Studwell · 2007
Open LibraryGoodreads

How Southeast Asia's tycoons got rich from political favours, not productivity.

The Lion Wakes
T2 The Lion Wakes
David Kynaston, Richard Roberts · 2015
Open LibraryGoodreads

Authorised modern history of HSBC, the territory's dominant financial institution.

Architect of Prosperity
T2 Architect of Prosperity
Neil Monnery · 2017
Open LibraryGoodreads

John Cowperthwaite, Hong Kong's Financial Secretary in the 1960s, and his policies.

The Thistle and the JadeThe Thistle and the Jade
T3 The Thistle and the Jade
Maggie Keswick · 1982
Open LibraryGoodreads

Jardine Matheson and the model of the diversified Hong Kong trading house.

Land and the Ruling Class in Hong KongLand and the Ruling Class in Hong Kong
T3 Land and the Ruling Class in Hong Kong
Alice Poon · 2005
Open LibraryGoodreads

The clearest short account of how the property oligopoly extracts rent.

Hong Kong's Link to the US DollarHong Kong's Link to the US Dollar
T3 Hong Kong's Link to the US Dollar
John Greenwood · 2007
Open LibraryGoodreads

The currency board explained by the economist who designed the peg.

Profits, Politics and Panics
T3 Profits, Politics and Panics
Leo Goodstadt · 2007
Open LibraryGoodreads

How Hong Kong's banks and bank crises shaped the miracle economy.

City on FireCity on Fire
T3 City on Fire
Antony Dapiran · 2020
Open LibraryGoodreads

Hong Kong's 2019 protests, from the extradition bill to months of street battles.

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