China: In Life’s Foreground
Dr. Emma Zhang reviews the autobiography of an Oxford scholar and Catholic missionary who witnessed multiple national upheavals and whose life was committed to her faith and community.
Category Archives
Archive for: Hong Kong and Chinese Literature and Culture
HKRB Essays: Fashion and China–Africa Relations
Johanna von Pezold uses insights from her fieldwork in Mozambique to explore China–Africa relations through the lens of fashion.
Two Trees Make a Forest
Darren Huang reviews Jessica J. Lee’s hybrid work of nature writing, memoir, and history investigating Taiwan and her family’s past.
Braised Pork
Chris Maden reviews An Yu’s haunting and intelligent debut novel, centred on relationships in modern China.
Masking the City
Emily Chow-Quesada reviews the Hong Kong Writers Circle’s 16th annual anthology of tales about the city.
Lost Hong Kong
Mandy Chan Sze Man reviews a fascinating tour of a “lost Hong Kong” in pictures from the 1860s to the early 1990s.
As Slow as Possible, and Letters Home
Antony Huen reviews recent poetry releases by two of Hong Kong’s most respected young English language poets.
Wuhan Diary
Chris Maden reviews Fang Fang’s Diary of the Coronavirus Outbreak.
