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.
HONG KONG REVIEW OF BOOKS 香港書評
Critical Theory, Philosophy, Literature – Reviews, Essays, Interviews
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
Still Modernism
Pinky Lui discusses the consolation of stillness in Modernist art.
Chatelaine
James Pate reviews a collection of poetry that dwells in the destabilizing aspects of the mythic.
Why Does Patriarchy Persist?
Ophelia Tung discusses the necessity of loss and vulnerability to the resistance of patriarchy.
