
Chasing the Dragon
Hodder & Stoughton Religious (Publisher)
Published on 1. September 1980
Book
Paperback/Softback
240 pages
978-0-340-25760-9 (ISBN)
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Description
Until it was pulled down, the Walled City was Hong Kong's most foreboding territory. It was a lawless place, dominated by the Triads, and which the police hesitated to enter. Strangers were unwelcome. Drug smuggling and heroin addiction flourished. It was a place of prostitution and pornography, extortion and fear. When Jackie Pullinger set out from England, she had no idea that God was calling her to the Walled City. Yet, as she spoke of Jesus Christ, brutal Triad gangsters were converted, prostitutes quit, and Jackie discovered a new treatment for drug addiction: baptism in the Holy Spirit. This new edition marks the 21st anniversary of this phenomenal bestseller, which has sold more than a quarter of a million copies around the world.
Reviews / Votes
'A book to stop you in your tracks.' Liverpool Daily Post 'An appealing mixture of compassion and adventure. A remarkable bestseller.' Manchester Evening News 'Jackie Pullinger is achieving goals that not even the combination of all the colony's isms and agencies, plans and committees have been able to come near.' Hong Kong Sunday Post 'Anyone less likely to go tripping into the vice dens of the notorious Walled City could not be found. Maybe her ignorance saved her ... or her courage.' Daily MailMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Hodder & Stoughton General Division
Target group
Interest Age: From 12 to 10 years
Product notice
Paperback (UK-A)
Dimensions
Height: 17 mm
Width: 111 mm
Thickness: 179 mm
Weight
138 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-340-25760-9 (9780340257609)
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Jackie Pullinger | Andrew Quicke
Chasing the Dragon
Book
02/2001
Hodder Arnold H&S
€27.42
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Persons
Jackie Pullinger: Jackie Pullinger has been awarded an MBE for her work with drug addicts in Hong Kong. Before it was pulled down, she worked in devastating circumstances amongst the addicts, prostitutes and Triad gangsters of the Walled City. Today, she continues to work among the most poor and needy of Hong Kong., Andrew Quicke: Andrew Quicke is Chairman of the School of Cinema-Television at Regent College, Vancouver, Canada. Andrew Quicke is Chairman of the School of Cinema-Television at Regent College, Vancouver, Canada.