The Birth and Death of Literary Theory
Eli Park Sorensen reviews Galin Tihanov’s impressive new work on the rise and fall of literary theory.
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Archive for: HKRB Books
Illiberal China
Lin Song reviews Daniel F. Vukovich’s interdisciplinary account of the PRC’s illiberal political culture.
Mouse vs. Cat in Chinese Literature
Tom Marling reviews a collection of animal fables that adds an elegant new dimension to the anglophone understanding of the Chinese literary tradition.
Days When I Hide My Corpse in a Cardboard Box
May Huang reviews a new collection of poems from Hong Kong.
Found in Transition
Ka-Lee Wong reviews an assessment of Hong Kong and its culture two decades after its reversion to China.
The Last Boat Out of Shanghai
Matthew Wu reviews a novel crafted from the personal stories of those who fled mainland China as a consequence of WWII and the Chinese Civil War.
Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy
Sasha Dovzhyk on the haunting banality of Europe’s biggest nuclear catastrophe.
Beds in the East, and The Experiment of the Tropics
Theophilus Kwek reviews two new collections of poetry.
