Sunset Survivors
Chris Maden reviews Lindsay Varty’s fascinating tour of a disappearing Hong Kong.
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Archive for: Hong Kong and Chinese Literature and Culture
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.
Hong Kong on the Brink
Chris Maden reviews Syd Goldsmith’s memoir of his life in Hong Kong around the years of the Great Proletariat Cultural Revolution.
