HKRB Essays: From Umbrella to Anti-Extradition
Emily Chow-Quesada reflects on the ongoing social unrest in Hong Kong.
Category Archives
Archive for: Hong Kong and Chinese Literature and Culture
Sunset Survivors
Chris Maden reviews Lindsay Varty’s fascinating tour of a disappearing Hong Kong.
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.
The World in Guangzhou
Emily Chow reviews Gordon Mathews’s ethnographic portrait of the lives of sub-Saharan Africans in Guangzhou.
