Hong Kong Tong Lau: The Sha Tau Kok Story House
Once closed to the public, Sha Tau Kok is gradually opening up — and putting its heritage and culture at the forefront...
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The Secret Lives of Hong Kong Villages
Patrick Hase’s detailed tome about Hong Kong market towns and villages has become an unexpected hit...
The Surprising Spiritual Connection Between Indonesia and Hong Kong
A new series of works at CHAT explore the culture of Hakka spirit mediums in the Chinese diaspora...
An Archive of Hong Kong’s Cityscape at the Venice Biennale
From bamboo scaffolding to public housing and more, a new exhibition documents what makes Hong Kong unique...
Cha Guo Stories, Part II: A Great-Grandmother’s Quietly Remarkable Life
A 96-year-old Hakka woman tells us about a long life of hardship, joy and the pleasure of a tight-knit rural community...
HK Timberbank is Revealing the Beauty of Hong Kong Wood
Banyans, longan, lychee, camphor: trees felled by storms or redevelopment are being saved from the landfill for reuse and research...
Cha Guo Stories, Part I: Meet the Concrete Master Who Helped Build Hong Kong
From his small rural workshop, Kanny Au helped supply crucial material to some of Hong Kong’s biggest construction projects ...
Daphné Mandel’s Time Rift: Art That Explores Hong Kong’s Abandoned Ruins
Artist Daphné Mandel has spent the pandemic exploring Hong Kong's abandoned places, channeling her discoveries into a new exhibition...
Hong Kong Recipes: 瀨鑊邊 – Wok Drizzle Soup, A Rare Hakka Delicacy
Delicately fried rice noodles are the pièce de résistance in this heartwarming, aromatic Hakka dish...
Hong Kong’s Colonial Heritage, Part XII: Fat Tat Tong, a Window Into Rural History
Hidden in a seemingly unremarkable village, Fat Tat Tong is one of Hong Kong's few declared monuments...
Keeping Hakka Culture Alive, Part III: New Year Traditions and Cuisine
Hakka cuisine is rooted in hardship, but the lunar new year is a chance to pull out all the stops....
Keeping Hakka Culture Alive, Part II: Hats and Songs
There's a link between the distinctive hats worn by Hakka women and the songs they sing in the fields – one a young enthusiast is trying to keep alive....
Keeping Hakka Culture Alive, Part I: The Story of Hong Kong’s Mountain Pioneers
Hakka people are an integral part of Hong Kong history and heritage, but their culture and language is at risk of being lost. ...
Take a Hike in Plover Cove, Where Farmers Are Bringing Hakka Villages Back to Life
A walk in the northeastern New Territories takes you past a haunted pool into formerly abandoned villages that are being reborn. ...
Hong Kong’s Industrial History, Part VI: Indigo
Indigo dyeing is making a comeback decades after the artisanal industry died out....
Hong Kong’s Industrial History, Part IV: The Rock That Built Hong Kong
How generations of Hakka quarry workers and stonemasons provided the granite that built the city as we know it....
How Football Found a Home in Hong Kong
The beautiful game has been on the frontlines of Hong Kong history, from colonial-era segregation to Cold War political rivalries....
Green Tea and Politics: The Surprising History of Hong Kong’s Abandoned Tea Plantation
Progressive politician Brook Bernacchi was the first Westerner to plant roots on Lantau, where he opened a school, gave jobs to ex-convicts and grew tea....
The Cryptozoology of Hong Kong, Part IV: The Endangered Fearsome Pei Yau
Neglected for years because of their nasty reputation, the strange, gold-chomping pei yau is making a comeback....
Hong Kong’s Industrial History, Part I: A City That Made Things
A group of amateur historians is investigating Hong Kong's long and diverse industrial past....
Why Hong Kong is Fertile Ground for English Poetry
Hong Kong's multilingualism has given it an edge in a new era of English language poetry, where languages and cultures collide....
The Lines Between: Madeleine Thien on Writing, Language and Family
After a year of touring the world to promote her acclaimed novel Do Not Say We Have Nothing, Madeleine Thien is back in Hong Kong, a place loaded with meaning for the Chinese-Canadian author....
The Ghost Villages: A Guide to Hong Kong’s Abandoned Hakka Settlements
Just a short minibus ride from the MTR, the rich history of Hakka villages lies in ruins along the Starling Inlet. ...
Tam Kung: Hong Kong’s Seafaring Child God
Every year, Shau Kei Wan celebrates Tam Kung, a mysterious god worshipped by Hakka people around the world. ...
How a Catholic Village in Hong Kong Was Saved From Extinction – and Won a UNESCO Award in the Process
The tranquil island village of Yim Tin Tsai was abandoned for decades, but the efforts of a determined chief have brought it back to life....