Hong Kong
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October 15, 2020 |
Charlotte Chun-lam Yiu was born in Hong Kong when it was still a British colony. A translator and scholar, she completed her undergraduate and master’s degrees in her hometown before beginning he...
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June 3, 2020 |
Naoise Dolan probably wishes her debut novel, Exciting Times (Ecco, 2020), wasn’t so relevant. Although the book isn’t set during a global pandemic, it does include the many unsavory aspects...
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March 23, 2020 |
In 2012, at sixteen years old, Joshua Wong and the pro-democracy student group he founded took on the Hong Kong government, mobilized more than one hundred thousand student protesters, and surpri...
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December 17, 2019 |
Photo courtesy of the author Following decades of British colonial rule to the rapidly tightening grip of mainland China and all the stories told about that chunk of land along the way, Hong K...
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July 29, 2016 |
News, Reviews, and Interviews The 2016 Man Booker Prize longlist has been announced. Finalist J. M. Coetzee is a past WLT contributor and was our 2003 Puterbaugh Fellow. PEN America has ann...
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February 17, 2016 |
Stone faces in Cambodia. Photo by Tammy Ho. In the second installment of “Asian Traumatic Poetics” (to read part 1, click here), I will look at two more poems published in Cha that discuss a...
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February 10, 2016 |
Chris Beckett, One & Other, by Antony Gormley, Trafalgar Square, London, 2009. In this post and one that will follow next week, I will explore the representation of personal trauma in po...