Shanghai Faithful
Mike Cormack on a long history of a family from the Opium Wars to the present day.
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Archive for: Hong Kong and Chinese Literature and Culture
The Salt Dress Inside Me – 我身體裏的鹽裙
Joel Swann’s epic series of 21 reviews of poetry published in Hong Kong continues with Kim Hyesoon’s short collection.
The Dancing Girl & the Turtle
Beverly Ngai reviews new historical fiction, exploring the oppressive patriarchy of 1930s Shanghai.
HKRB Interviews: Yuk Hui
Jordan Skinner asks internationally renowned technology theorist Yuk Hui about modernity, AI, the future and the digital objects we live with today.
Everything Under The Heavens
Mike Cormac discusses the future of China and a variety of ways to approach it, considering the myths at the foundation of the various world powers.
Irreverent Poems for Pretentious People
Jeremy Simmons considers a new volume of poetry from Hong Kong, which reveals the pretentiousness in all of us.
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.
Party Members
Mike Cormack discusses critics of China, talking penises and the criteria for judging a really decent satire. Arthur Meursault, Party Members (Camphor Continue reading
