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.
Category Archives
Archive for: Hong Kong and Chinese Literature and Culture
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.
HKRB Essays: The Long Goodbye
As the UK government signals a potential ‘path to citizenship’ to nearly 3 million potential Hong Kong BNOs, and Trump starts the process of revoking Hong Kong’s special treatment, journalist and cultural historian Stuart Walton reflects on public and private histories.
Stories of the Sahara
Darren Huang reviews the first English translation of Sanmao’s classic travelogue of love and loss in the Sahara.
Hong Kong Noir
Liz Wan reviews a recent addition to an award-winning noir series: an anthology of fourteen deliciously dark tales from Hong Kong.
Vigil: Hong Kong on the Brink
Historian Jeff Wasserstrom shares with Daniel C. Tsang his historically tempered observations about Hong Kong.
A Sensational Encounter with High Socialist China
Chris Maden reviews Paul Pickowicz’s account of a unique moment in modern China’s history.
