Chasing The Dragon
Love took her to the darkness of the Walled City
- ISBN
- 0340257601
- Publisher
- Hodder and Stoughton
- Published
- 1980
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 238
- Genre
- Autobiography
- Location
- O15
About the book
Chasing the Dragon, Jackie Pullinger and Andrew Quicke, is a compelling memoir detailing Pullinger’s transformative work in Hong Kong’s infamous Kowloon Walled City during the late 1960s and 1970s. Arriving as a 22-year-old with little money, Pullinger entered a dense, lawless enclave dominated by Triad gangs, sex work, and severe heroin addiction, where the phrase "chasing the dragon" referred to smoking heroin. Driven by deep faith and radical compassion, she befriended gang members and addicts, witnessing miraculous cold-turkey recoveries without withdrawal symptoms through prayer, which ultimately led hundreds to convert and abandon criminal life. The book chronicles not only the raw reality of Hong Kong’s dark underbelly but also the power of selfless love, laying the foundation for her rehabilitation organization, the St. Stephen's Society.