CNN

Tired of city life, this couple built a retreat on a Hong Kong farm and opened it to the community

Hidden away amongst the farms and hills of Tai Kong Po, a quiet village in Hong Kong’s northwestern Yuen Long district, lies an unexpected destination for nature and literature lovers – the Bei Bei ...
The Varsity

Schrodinger’s middle class

Vancouver-born novelist Sheung-King grew up in Hong Kong. Canadian-Singaporean writer Thea Lim described his work as an ...
The New York Times

A Deeply Personal Look at the Past, Present and Future of Hong Kong

Louisa Lim’s “Indelible City” charts the place’s reinventions and the author’s experience living there since she was a child. By Jennifer Szalai When you purchase an independently reviewed book ...
The Hill

Hong Kong leader defends removing politically sensitive books from public libraries

HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong’s leader said Thursday the city’s public libraries would not recommend books featuring “bad ideologies” to residents after they pulled titles related to the 1989 Tiananmen ...
The Washington Post

As Hong Kong stood up for democracy, a neighborhood was brutalized

This article is adapted from “Among the Braves: Hope, Struggle, and Exile in the Battle for Hong Kong and the Future of Global Democracy,” which will be published by Hachette Books on Nov. 7. Almost ...
The New York Times

In Hong Kong, the Search for a Single Identity

To explain the city’s fraught present, two books look to its past. By Amy Qin INDELIBLE CITY: Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong, by Louisa Lim THE IMPOSSIBLE CITY: A Hong Kong Memoir, by Karen ...