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Welcome to a book with legs podcast. I'm Cole Smead, CEO and portfolio manager here at Smead Capital Management. At our firm, we are readers, and we believe in the power of books to help

shape informed investors. In this podcast, we speak to great authors about their writings.

The late great Charlie Munger prescribed using multiple mental models and analysis.

We analyze their work through the lens of business, markets, and people.

Today we will discuss the messy and often awkward history of the greatest port city in Asia, Hong Kong.

Vodin, England is joining us to discuss her recently released title, Fortunes Bazaar, The Making, Hong Kong. Vardine, England, is joining us to discuss her recently released title,

Fortune's Bazaar, The Making of Hong Kong.

Dr. Vardin is a career journalist covering Hong Kong in Southeast Asia.

She is reported for Time Magazine, Newsweek, BBC Reuters,

and the South China Morning Post.

She holds a PhD from Leiden University in the Netherlands.

She has published one other book,

The Quest of Noel Croucher.

Vardin, thank you for joining me.

Thank you very much.

I love to hear how you love books.

Oh, I appreciate that.

And you're joining us, obviously, from the Netherlands, correct?

Yeah, absolutely.

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