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.
HONG KONG REVIEW OF BOOKS 香港書評
Critical Theory, Philosophy, Literature – Reviews, Essays, Interviews
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.
HKRB Essays: Mountains and Rivers of Bicycles without End
Jeff Clapp thinks on beauty and revulsion in the sharing economy.
Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy
Sasha Dovzhyk on the haunting banality of Europe’s biggest nuclear catastrophe.
Beds in the East, and The Experiment of the Tropics
Theophilus Kwek reviews two new collections of poetry.
I Have Become the Tide
As the Bharatiya Janata Party looks set to take a general election majority in an India increasingly hostile to minorities, Ragini Mohite reviews Githa Hariharan’s important novel on caste inequality and Dalit experience
