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Author Auteur: New Wave Film Icon Ann Hui Returns to Eileen Chang

Elizabeth KerrNovember 25, 2021

Sipping Caffè Latte in Chinese Porcelain Cups

Patrick PoonNovember 23, 2021

Patrick Poon is a Hongkonger who now lives in Europe. We invited him to share his passion for something distinctly Hong Kong: cafés that serve their coffee in Chinese porcelain...

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Learn About Chinese Medicine in Sheung Wan’s Unusual Herbal Garden

Ilaria Maria SalaNovember 18, 2021

Although it looks like any other sitting-out area, the rest garden in Sheung Wan's dried seafood district is full of information about the medicinal plants being sold all around....

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A Star is Reborn: Anita Mui On the Big Screen

Elizabeth KerrNovember 14, 2021

Dung Kai-cheung’s Hong Kong Convergence

Ilaria Maria SalaNovember 10, 2021

We sit down for tea with the famous Hong Kong author to find out what makes his writing so distinct...

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The Cost of Being an Astronaut: Author Pik-Shuen Fung Explores the Inner Lives of Hong Kong Emigrants

Christopher DewolfNovember 4, 2021

Featured at the Hong Kong International Literary Festival, Ghost Forest explores the emotional impact of migration for the thousands of Hongkongers who left before the 1997 handover...

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Modern Before Its Time: A Hong Kong Gallery Embraces Ming Dynasty Furniture

Billy PottsOctober 27, 2021

Tea, Roasted to Order Over Charcoal: The Story of Ming Heung

Ilaria Maria SalaOctober 7, 2021

Ming Heung Tea Shop has been sitting in exactly the same position in Kowloon City since 1963. Chen Dak, the founder, had been in Hong Kong and in the tea business for about 10 years when the shop was established, following in the footsteps of his father, with whom he fled to Hong Kong in […]...

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Hong Kong’s Great Writers: Liu Yichang and Chinese Cosmopolitanism

Ilaria Maria SalaSeptember 22, 2021

Liu Yichang's depiction of a restless, moody, changing Hong Kong and its connection to the Chinese diaspora inspired a generation of creative talents like Wong Kar-wai...

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What Will Save Hong Kong’s 700-Year-Old Oyster Farms?

Billy PottsSeptember 21, 2021

When the Fire Dragon Dances Under the Full Moon: Mid-Autumn Festival in Hong Kong

Tom BillingeSeptember 19, 2021

Mid-Autumn Festival is one of the liveliest and most cherished holidays in Hong Kong. Its history stretches back thousands of years....

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Lap Sap Chung: The Monster That Kept Hong Kong Clean

Ilaria Maria SalaSeptember 8, 2021

Lap Sap Chung was meant to be a villain, and yet people adored him. Will his successors meet the same fate?...

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Hong Kong Film Needs More Women. What’s Stopping Them?

Elizabeth KerrAugust 18, 2021

Why Does Hong Kong Have Its Own Team at the Olympics?

Christopher DewolfAugust 10, 2021

After Hong Kong's success at the Tokyo Olympics, it's worth looking into the particular history of how this city ended up with its own national team. ...

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Hong Kong Flora: The Real—and Fake—Panpo Tree

Ilaria Maria SalaAugust 10, 2021

Phoenix eye fruit is a summertime delicacy in Hong Kong, but nature has a trick up its sleeve: Hong Kong is filled with fake versions of it....

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Lo Ting: The Legend of Hong Kong’s Rebellious Human-Fish Hybrid

Ilaria Maria SalaJuly 28, 2021

What’s Next for Hong Kong Film? Creativity in the Face of Hardship

Elizabeth KerrJuly 8, 2021

Emerging directors wrestle with a changing landscape, finding ways to make it their own...

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Xi Xi: The Playful Seriousness of a Quintessential Hong Kong Writer

Ilaria Maria SalaJuly 8, 2021

Combining playfulness with sophisticated wordplay and deep erudition, Xi Xi captures the Hong Kong spirit like few other authors...

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Michael Rogge’s Hong Kong: A 1950s Time Capsule

Christopher DewolfJune 29, 2021

Amazing Images of Old Hong Kong – in Full Colour

Christopher DewolfJune 24, 2021

A group of academics is using its Instagram account, Old HK in Colour, to share an incredible collection of painstakingly enhanced and colourised photos from Hong Kong's past....

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A Broken Chinese Seal Brings History to Life

Edith TerryJune 17, 2021

Sotheby’s Asia chairman Nicolas Chow explores the iconoclastic hand of history in a unique collection of imperial Chinese seals....

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Behind the Scenes of Hong Kong’s First Homegrown Indian Movie

Elizabeth KerrMay 26, 2021

Sampson Wong Wants You To Take a Walk

Christopher DewolfMay 19, 2021

The artist and academic's new project aims to reconnect Hongkongers with their own city...

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How Hong Kong Shaped Eileen Chang

Ilaria Maria SalaMay 6, 2021

Known around the world for Lust, Caution and other brilliant works, Eileen Chang spent most of her life in Shanghai and Los Angeles – but it was Hong Kong that made her into the writer she was....

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Hong Kong’s Wild Animals, Part VI: Big City Bovines

Christopher DewolfApril 29, 2021

Tin Hau Festival: Celebrating the Birthday of Hong Kong’s Supreme Goddess

Tom BillingeApril 29, 2021

From a Fujianese fishing village to the streets of Hong Kong: the story behind Tin Hau, Hong Kong's most popular deity. ...

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Telling History with Objects: The Mengdiexuan Collection

Edith TerryApril 12, 2021

An impactful new exhibition showcases China's overlooked gold treasures in a spectacular setting. ...

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The Flower Boat Girl: Inside the Life of Pirate Queen Cheng I Sao

Ryan KilpatrickApril 8, 2021

Sound and Emotion: Anson Mak’s New Documentary

Elizabeth KerrMarch 25, 2021

Multi-disciplinary artist Anson Mak shines a spotlight on our basest emotion and the art it produces....

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Hong Kong’s Wild Animals, Part V: The Asian Koel, A Sign of Spring

Christopher DewolfMarch 17, 2021

The annual mating season of the Asian koel, with its unmistakable, lonely song, signals the arrival of spring in Hong Kong....

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The Home Nobody Knows: Vivienne Chow Explores the Soko Islands

Partner ContentMarch 12, 2021

Stay Home? Or Go to the Cinema? This Year, the HKIFF Chooses Both

Elizabeth KerrMarch 11, 2021

The hybrid Hong Kong International Film Festival designed for these pandemic times may mark a turning point for future festivals...

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Hong Kong’s Wild Animals, Part IV: Burmese Pythons

Christopher DewolfMarch 4, 2021

Why you shouldn't be scared of Hong Kong's largest snakes....

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Forgotten Hong Kong Icon: Olympia Graeco-Egyptian Coffee – Fresh Roasted Since 1927

Christopher DewolfFebruary 26, 2021

How a Stylish New Cinema is Throwing Its Support Behind Hong Kong Film

Elizabeth KerrFebruary 19, 2021

Local film distributor Golden Scene is giving Kennedy Town a front row seat in Hong Kong's cinematic renaissance....

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Keeping Hakka Culture Alive, Part III: New Year Traditions and Cuisine

Annemarie EvansFebruary 12, 2021

Hakka cuisine is rooted in hardship, but the lunar new year is a chance to pull out all the stops....

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What’s Essential for Chinese New Year? Peach Blossoms

Erica FongFebruary 11, 2021

New Year, New Stream: Discover New and Old Indie Movies in Hong Kong

Elizabeth KerrFebruary 11, 2021

With cinemas once again closed during the peak moviegoing time of the year, now's the chance to explore some of Hong Kong's alternative streaming options...

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Meet the Plumber King, Hong Kong’s Unexpected Graffiti Icon

Billy PottsJanuary 29, 2021

For decades, a plumber has advertised his services by painting on the city's surfaces. We meet the man behind thousands of remarkably stylish advertisements....

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Pop Cantonese: Big Wok 大鑊

Erica FongJanuary 14, 2021

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