Reading Hong Kong, Reading Ourselves
Yvonne Wong reads a collection of essays that continues to have something important to say about the liminal spaces of Hong Kong.
HONG KONG REVIEW OF BOOKS 香港書評
Critical Theory, Philosophy, Literature – Reviews, Essays, Interviews
American Life
Darren Huang reviews Chinese historian Cho-yun Hsu’s multifaceted critique of inequality and fragmentation in American society.
HKRB Essays: Hong Kong Cuisine and Western Culture
Wayne Kwong considers the relationship between local Hong Kong food and Western culture.
Imagining Asia
Walter Chan reviews a new work comparing the central museums of Hong Kong, Macau, and Singapore.
Unbury Our Dead with Song
Grant Hamilton reviews Mũkoma wa Ngũgĩ’s captivating new novel.
HKRB Essays: Capitalist Fiction – Murdering the Imagination
Susanna Kleeman has something very particular in mind as she tries to account for the “death” of literary fiction.
Collected Poems
Paul Scott Stanfield reviews a powerful collection of poetry that rests on the implied, the suggested, and the unspoken.
HKRB Essays: Life as a postgraduate during COVID
Lilli Chung reflects on the trials and tribulations of undertaking a research degree in the age of COVID-19.
