The Last Gods of Indochine
Tse Hao Guang 謝皓光 reviews a new ‘adventure story for the backpacker age’, discussing dangerous representations of ‘mysterious’ Indochina and the postcolonial issues surrounding even the most contemporary East-West clashes.
Monthly Archives
Archive for: May 2017
The Utopia of Rules
Grafton Tanner reflects on Graeber’s work, discussing what it means to be radical and how to go about being so.
Using Gramsci
Sean Mahoney on how the revolutionary Marxism of Antinio Gramsci can provide solutions to some of the predicaments of Europe and the US today.
The Day Ends Like Any Day
British poet Leo Cookman considers the latest by Nigerian poet and novelist Timothy Ogene and reflects on a compelling fictional memoir exploring the history of colonization.
Nemesis
Jerome F. Keating discusses what happened when steam and iron replaced sail, analyzing the important relations between Britain and China that are revealed by the history of just one sailing vessel.
HONG KONG REVIEW OF BOOKS 香港書評 