{"product_id":"b0gww87xht","title":"Why I Don't Say Ni Hao: A Hong Kong Story in the British Diaspora","description":"\u003cp\u003e“You alright?”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn Britain, this is a friendly opening. But for Winnie W., a Hong Konger navigating her new life in London, the answer is layered with a century of history that her neighbours often miss.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom being targeted by tourist scammers in Trafalgar Square to a police officer’s garbled attempt at Mandarin in a dark car park, Winnie keeps encountering the same “wrong code”: the assumption that every East Asian face is a Ni Hao waiting to happen.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhy I Don't Say 'Ni Hao'  is a defiant, witty, and deeply moving response to this cultural static. Winnie invites you to look beyond the Asian Face stereotype and discover a community that grew up under the same Crown and wore the same Girl Guide uniforms as their British counterparts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThrough a series of sharp, evocative essays, she maps out a Double Nostalgia:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe Linguistic Knot:  Why our English names are the front doors to our lives, while our Chinese names remain ancestral halls protected from strangers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe Northern Line Love-Hate Story:  A gritty, humorous look at trading the pristine MTR for the dusty velvet seats and scurrying rats of the London Underground.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe Christmas Paradox:  A challenge to the assumption that Hong Kongers only know the Lunar New Year, revealing how Christmas is the very oxygen of our urban identity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe Genius of 'Keoi':  A fascinating look at how Cantonese possessed a gender-neutral pronoun long before it became a modern Western conversation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWinnie isn’t just an immigrant; she is a long-term investor in British culture—someone who paid her music tax at the Tsim Sha Tsui HMV long before landing at Heathrow.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis book is a bridge. Whether you’re a local curious about your new neighbours or a Hong Konger seeking your own voice in print, these pages offer a toolkit for understanding a people who are  Baak Duk Bat Cam  (immune to a hundred poisons) and fiercely proud of their hybrid soul.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRead it, then share it. Help turn a Ni Hao into a real dialogue.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ANT","offers":[{"title":"Ebook","offer_id":67883171447029,"sku":"YSL28447","price":3.59,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/8774\/8597\/files\/51de0akFNUL._SY1500.jpg?v=1793284538","url":"https:\/\/www.newbooks.store\/products\/b0gww87xht","provider":"NewBooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}