Opening a new chapter
Albert Wan moved Kowloon’s Bleak House Books to small-town US in 2021 – it is not easy to start again, he says
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A show of Hong Kong talent
Crossing, a group exhibition of nine artists, at Hong Kong’s gdm, now celebrating its 50th birthday
Fashion illustration on the move
Olivia Tse captures the essence of fashion as she sketches live at events
Hong Kong prison memoir captures pain of neurodivergence in an era of ignorance
Stewart Burton’s ‘Number 4’ traces his experience as a young person, from the bars of Lang Kwai Fong to life behind bars in Pik Uk Prison
What connects a street in Sheffield to the Hong Kong protests?
An artist duo maps out the links between two very different Harcourt Roads
Curator fosters cultural conversation between Basel and HK
Basel-based non-profit builds mutual understanding and an intercultural network by showcasing diverse stories through artistic practices.
Finding meaning in poetry
Your go-to guide on appreciating contemporary poems
Manchester art space opens cultural dialogue between two cities
Kan Cheng, co-founder of independent art space Saan1 in Manchester, discusses establishing this venue, and how art can help anchor artists and their audience in their adopted home.
Jin Yong’s four pillars of wuxia critique
Author Alice Poon delights in wuxia novelist Jin Yong’s key criteria by which to critique the genre, and reflects on how she pursues characterisation in her own work
Jin Yong the classic novelist lives on
Timeless are the 15 books that astutely weave fantasy around history and explore conflicts between cultural values in Chinese civilisation