HONG KONG REVIEW OF BOOKS 香港書評

Affiliated with the LARB (Los Angeles Review of Books) Sponsored by the Sin Wai Kin Chinese Culture Scheme at HSMC

Mike Cormack on a long history of a family from the Opium Wars to the present day.

Kevin Forkan reviews a new book on the British Empire in India, countering those Brexit lovers who have forgotten the horrors of empire.

Joel Swann’s epic series of 21 reviews of poetry published in Hong Kong continues with Kim Hyesoon’s short collection.

Beverly Ngai reviews new historical fiction, exploring the oppressive patriarchy of 1930s Shanghai.

Edwin Montoya Zorrilla discusses the G20 protests, George Romero’s zombies and the question of innocence in the age of police brutality.

Colin Lee Marshall reviews the latest experimental poetry by former Hong Kong professor Robert Kiely.

Frank G Karioris on the latest by Milan Kundera and how it can help rehabilitate the Left today.

MH discusses children in the US prison system, the racial biases evident in incarceration patterns and the idea of a world without prisons.

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