Rise of Shenzhen
Anne Stevenson-Yang
China’s most successful modern city was an accident of history
Category: East Asia
Records of a Floating Island
Lok Man Law
Poetry from Lok Man Law
Woman-radical: A feminist lesson in Chinese characters
Yuan Changming
Poetry from Yuan Changming
Yesterday’s tomorrow
Peter Guest
Japan’s otaku culture was crafted from times of hardship
Coffee in Jeju
Marc de Faoite
A coffee with a stranger opened up uncomfortable truths
Ho’s sweet home
Denise Y. Ho
Denise Ho and the city of her birth
China closes the border
Jennifer Eagleton
Why Hong Kong is an identity issue for China
The spectre of Tiananmen
Richard Heydarian
Tiananmen has shown that communist China will do anything to cling onto power. HK is next.
HK’s spirit of resistance
Jeffrey Wasserstrom
Beijing is determined to crush the protests
Saving Hong Kong
Benedict Rogers
Why the world should stand up to China’s assault on Hong Kong
Made in Japan
Thomas A. Bass
Nearly a decade after the Fukushima nuclear disaster, Japan is struggling with the clean up
The coming anger
Richard Heydarian
Get ready for an anti-China backlash over coronavirus
Strait defiance
Michael Reilly
Why China’s heavy-handed denial of a separate Tawainese identity will fail
Isolated
Peter Guest
In Tokyo, it’s never clear whether you are in a lockdown or not
Rebel
David Parrish
How a teenager from Hong Kong came of political age
Coronavirus
Anthony Tao
Four poems by Anthony Tao
Family co.
Peter Tasker
How a Korean company beat the Japanese at their own game
Night-shift scenes*
Wong Yi
A short story by Wong Yi
New cause
Brian Chee-Shing Hioe
A kidnapping hasn’t deterred Lam Wing-kee from opening a new bookshop
Weary
Lok Man Law
Hong Kong has opened the door to darkness
Spark to fire
Paul French
The history of mass protest in Hong Kong
Human capital
Hsiao Mu
Can Hong Kong remain a global financial centre?
Hong Kong Beauty Treatment 2019
Jennifer Eagleton
A poem by Jennifer Eagleton
爹deh
Leung Rachel Ka Yin
A poem by Leung Rachel Ka Yin
Lunch out
Kelly Falconer
Remembering the Beijing Bookworm
Trouble
Richard Heydarian
China is facing a regional backlash
Hong Kong burning
Antony Dapiran
On the streets of a city on fire
Revival
Lok Man Law
Albert Wan’s Bleak House Books
Word generation
Leung Rachel Ka Yin
Romanising Cantonese in Hong Kong
Wall-to-wall democracy
Penny Edwards
One country, two systems, many walls
Desperate times
Ben Wilson
The accidental reporter in Hong Kong
Going, together
Lok Man Law
How hope was crushed in Hong Kong
The pushback
Antony Dapiran
Challenging China’s authority
No limit
Alice Dawkins
A millennial in Beijing
Upon the crags
Rupert Arrowsmith
For love and empire
The gambler
Hugo Pinto
The life of a Macau casino tycoon
Artificial power
Geoffrey Cain
Has our relationship with technology reached a turning point?
Inside China’s dream
Rhys Griffiths
An interview with exiled Chinese novelist Ma Jian
Paper tiger
Peter Guest
Tammy Tam, editor-in-chief of the South China Morning Post
Upstairs, downstairs
Mark Robinson
Books, age and beauty in west Tokyo