It is in a stripped journalistic style (sometimes you'd read Albert Londres) Joseph Kessel us into this China counters, at a time when their size is in the past but where there are still traces of this prosperous period of commerce, casinos, and the little people who installed alongside Europeans. The book is divided into 2 parts (HK and Macao ...) around short stories, experiences lived by the author during his stay on site, often guided by the recommended persons, who takes her stockings -Funding destitute to uptown these two pearls of the Far East.
The book reads easily, in a simple style but which does not detract from the beauty of the text. it is also not very thick, and it is a perfect interlude between 2 highest readings. Sometimes regrets that Kessel was not used more this way for us to discover the many countries he visited.
