You cannot get a much more challenging start than to be christened Pearl Gray, after Queen Victoria's favourite colour for frocks.

ECONOMIST: The writer of westerns

Once or twice a week, Siu boarded the public ferry for an hour-long trip across the rolling gray waters of the Pearl River estuary.

NEWYORKER: The God of Gamblers

The weather was gray again, with muck in the sky from the Pearl River Delta factories.

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