Hitchhiking to Hong Kong

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By Thomas Gorman ’73

Published May 26, 2020

In his memoir Hitchhiking to Hong Kong (Cedar Rapids Press), Thomas Gorman ’73 recounts the experiences he encountered while running a publishing company in Hong Kong, from falling victim to a rat invasion to fishing in a remote lake, spanning the transition from when the Maoist regime sat in Beijing to the post-Mao era in China and Hong Kong.

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An inside look up the inside of a building, with four floors and a dinosaur skeleton visible.
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