Hongkongers’ defence of bamboo scaffolding in the aftermath of the Tai Po fire wasn’t just about a material; it became part of efforts to defend the things that make the city what it is.
With When Sleeping Women Wake, Emma Pei Yin takes her place in a long-running and constantly evolving tradition of Chinese female-centred historical fiction.
Filipino Hongkongers are generally excluded from the city’s self-understanding as an Asian metropolis with a distinct cultural heritage, but the historical ties between Hong Kong and the Philippines run deep.
Dorothy Wai Sim Lau undertakes a nuanced interrogation of how fame, altruism and regional identity intersect in Asia’s transnational mediascape.
You Must Take Part in Revolution combines powerful imagery with a compelling plot to convey the political turmoil we’ve experienced and might face in the near future.
Walking through a new exhibition on national security in the Hong Kong Museum of History.
Hong Kongers from the Indian subcontinent, the Philippines and Indonesia have lived in the city for a long time. Yet Asian minority Hong Kongers often end up segregated from ethnic Chinese children in the education system.
At a time in which large bookstores have fallen to pressures like Hong Kong’s sky-high rents, gentle books survives as a nimble pop-up for used English-language books.
Among the Braves is an attempt to tell the story and struggles of a city, through the lives of the people who have been active in a decades-long movement for democracy.
As a mainland Chinese kid, I saw Hong Kong portrayed on TV as the epicentre of capitalism and sophistication; Hong Kong in real life, when I finally got to see and feel it for the first time, was much more than that.
A poem by Yago Tse.
An interview with Mike Chinoy about covering China for almost half a century, and his new book, Assignment China: An Oral History of American Journalists in the People’s Republic.
The Chinese Communist Party has “restructured the social order and silenced the people on the ground. Now they’re trying to extend their hands overseas, to silence overseas activists,” Christopher Mung says from the UK.
The Hong Kong elite are said to be interested only in making money and not in universal values like democracy, human rights and the rule of law. But that’s not true.
One of the interesting ideas thrown up in Hong Kong a few years back has been a certain nostalgia for the late colonial period. But how enlightened was colonial public policy-making?
For Hongkongers, the British Museum exhibition became a space for those living through the ongoing destruction of their home to make sense of their own lives.
The story of Hong Kong has long been subject to the whims of outsiders’ imaginations. Almost nowhere in these narratives is Hong Kong a city for the seven million residents.
A controversy—involving questions of privacy, consent, autonomy and censorship—began to develop around the documentary To My Nineteen-Year-Old Self, one that starkly parallels the Hong Kong government’s relationship with the youth.
A poem in commemoration of Bleak House Books, an independent bookshop in Hong Kong, which ceased operations in October 2021. The store is set to reopen in upstate New York in the spring of 2023.
Life in the new Hong Kong
32 years of Hong Kong’s only French language bookshop
An interview with author Dung Kai-cheung
China is not just changing institutions in Hong Kong
Poetry from Lok Man Law
A memoir of a city and its people
First the Brits, now the Chinese
Dung Kai-cheung’s disappearing Hong Kong
How do we know when a place has become history?
How overseas Hongkongers are maintaining the fight
A review of Laura Jane Lee’s new poetry
Making space in Hong Kong
How to live in the new Hong Kong
Translating the unspoken words of Hong Kong’s heart
A small space for book lovers in Hong Kong
An interview with Hong Kong activist Nathan Law
Memoirs of a lost Hong Kong
An activist’s detention marks the start of 4 June
Friday marks the 32nd anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre. Previously, Hong Kong’s annual 4 June vigil drew well over 100,000 people to Victoria Park.
The changing meaning of a massacre
Hong Kong and the history of globalisation