Losing hope
Antony Dapiran
China crushes dissent in Hong Kong
Category: East Asia
Too toxic
Robert Templer
After four decades of destruction, China is facing an environmental catastrophe
China imagined
Yuan Zhu
Despite claims of exceptionalism, China is a normal country
The takeover
Antony Dapiran
Beijing has wasted no time in making Hong Kong China
Cross purposes
Michael Reilly
Xi Jinping’s megalomania can’t explain everything in the Taiwan Strait
Poetry
Vasvi Kejriwal
Poetry from Vasvi Kejriwal
Plain fantasy
Anne Stevenson-Yang
Finally, some great stories from China
That era
Wong Yi
A short story inspired by Wong Kar-wai’s In the Mood for Love
Hong Kong rebel
Elaine Yu
Joshua Wong on the future of the protest movement
In Tiananmen’s shadow
Jeffrey Wasserstrom
The similarities—and differences—between Tiananmen Square and Hong Kong
Frozen in Wuhan
Tom Baxter
Fang Fang’s diary helped her compatriots get through the darkest days of the lockdown in Wuhan
Sea mothers
Esther Kim
The extraordinary stories of South Korean famed sea divers
Seeing red
Michael Reilly
Under Chinese influence or guilt by association?
Asia matters
Anjan Sundaram
What does Black Lives Matter mean for Asian artists and writers?
Shanghai’s last race
Paul French
Horse racing, a symbol of British colonialism, went with the empire
Echo in Sahara
Emily Ding
The life of the Taiwanese travel writer Sanmao is the stuff of fiction
Rise of Shenzhen
Anne Stevenson-Yang
China’s most successful modern city was an accident of history
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