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All the world may indeed be a stage, but a poet's world consists of words.Nashua Gallagher's debut collection of verse resonates with themes of coming of age in Hong Kong and other parts of Asia, and is set in a belovedly re-imagined yet elusive "home" with a cast of friends, family, poets and others. Her work traverses tender recollection, wry observation, and candid commentary on the road to love, motherhood, identity, relationships, and the...

From childhood memories, fairytales, taboos, deep-rooted faiths to translated truths, Jennifer Wong's dream-like and surreal second collection reveals the changing landscapes of Hong Kong and modern China."This collection establishes Jennifer Wong as Hong Kong's finest English language poet of the younger generation without a shadow of doubt." -- Mike Ingham"... handled with great sharpness and delicacy." -- George Szirtes

How does one go about opening one's heart to an abused six-year old boy who speaks not one word of English? What do menopause and kudzu have in common? Where do we turn for that extra dose of courage, or an extra dollop of humor to help us through the day? 'Gweilo Moments', a collection of interlocking essays by Robin Minietta, is a thoughtful -- and, provocative -- meditation on lives that unfold against the backdrop of Hong Kong. Both poigna...

This collection is a meditation on the modern city and the creative life. The bilingual poems featured here are inspired by the ways in which the English and the Chinese languages intertwine and take root in the Asian cities of Hong Kong and Singapore.Born in Singapore, Eddie Tay is a long time resident of Hong Kong. He is an assistant professor at the Department of English at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, where he teaches courses on cr...

In Accidental Occidental, a unique collage of words and images, David McKirdy spins an Asian tapestry of people, places and impressions. The original hardcover edition was awarded a prestigious publication grant from the Hong Kong Arts Development Council. Accidental Occidental is here re-issued as an international paperback to introduce McKirdy's work to a new and wider audience.One of Hong Kong's best-known poets, David McKirdy was born in S...

In January 2011, Harvard Professor Harry Lewis gave a series of four talks and lectures in Hong Kong, anchored by an invitation from the Chinese University of Hong Kong as Sir Run Run Shaw Visiting Scholar. The four lectures gathered in this volume are: "Approaches to General Education" Lee Hysan lecture, delivered at Chinese University of Hong Kong"Civic Education in the Information Era" Sir Run Run Shaw Distinguished Lecturedelivered at Shaw...

Throughout his reign the Emperor had matched his clothes to his big initiatives - military uniform for an armed conflict, track suit for the athletic push, overalls for his agricultural projects and business suit for his drive to make the kingdom a financial centre. One by one his efforts failed and in the end he decided that he had nothing left to show them. It meant one last change of clothes.Jake van der Kamp is a Hong Kong-based financial ...

A unique volume of multicultural verse: Octavio Paz - Mexican writer, poet, diplomat and public intellectual, winner of the Premio Cervantes and the Nobel Prize in Literature - built bridges among cultures, and especially among poets. His connections with Asia were considerable. Moved by the wisdom and lyrical thrust of Chinese poetry, he translated some 60 classical poems primarily from the Tang and Song dynasties. These are still considered ...

Banking is a complex, competitive business in which success can never be taken for granted. Investment bankers need to rely not only on their own skills and the capabilities of their banks, but on careful preparation, good marketing presentations, a thorough understanding of the customer, an awareness of the pitfalls, persistence, common sense and an ability to learn from their own and other peoples' mistakes.Written by a veteran banker with f...

ANCESTRAL WORSHIP is a homage to my adopted city. Hong Kong has always been a city of immigrants and I am simply one more who has been welcomed and made the city my home. This new collection deals with the Hong Kong of my youth and my relationship with the modern-day city that I have grown up with. Some of the pieces tackle the relationship between the colonisers and the colonised in British Hong Kong during the 1960s and 70s, when it was stil...

Selections from April-June 2014: Reviews, essays, excerpts -- In addition to reviewing books about or of relevance to Asia, The Asian Review of Books also features essays by leading Asian writers and thinkers and excerpts from recently-published books, providing an unparalleled forum for discussion of key contemporary issues by Asians for Asia and a vehicle of intellectual depth and breadth where leading thinkers can write on the books, arts a...

Selections from July-Sept. 2014: Reviews, essays, excerpts -- In addition to reviewing books about or of relevance to Asia, the "Asian Review of Books" also features essays by leading Asian writers and thinkers and excerpts from recently-published books, providing an unparalleled forum for discussion of key contemporary issues by Asians for Asia and a vehicle of intellectual depth and breadth where leading thinkers can write on the books, arts...

This is the story of a man and a woman born thousands of miles apart, of different nationality, culture and language, who met in Hong Kong in the most unlikely of circumstances, yet were destined for a life together. Both had known hardship and sorrow in youth, both had similar aspirations to study and dedicate their lives to the service of the underprivileged, to struggle against injustice, and to work forworld peace. The only barrier between...

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EIGHT HONG KONG POETS: Leung Ping-Kwan, Jennifer Wong, Shirley Geok-lin Lim, David McKirdy, Tammy Ho Lai-ming, Eddie Tay, Timothy Kaiser & Sarah Howe.Through world wars, revolutions and colonial diasporas, Hong Kong has welcomed people from all parts of China and all over the world. In such a mix, poets find a home that inspires and provokes in equal measure. Hong Kong poetry in English has been very much a story of poets who go, come, return ...

In the 23rd century, fossil fuels are exhausted and Earth depends on energy from a swarm of solar power satellites. Conditions are harsh in the space stations that serve this network and some of the crews rebel. They move away from Earth orbit and build their own colonies, the 'Seven Dwarfs', meant for life, not labour. The real beginning of the Space Age has come at last. But Earth does not tolerate this defiance of its authority and mounts a...

A mouse who was on the spot on the night of the grand ball is not as taken as humans are with this classic fairy tale of mating success. You are a species that has lost touch with itself, he tells us. Your big brains have outgrown you. They have taken you into a world in which you are not really at home and made you strangers to yourselves there. Any animal shows more common sense in its daily life than you humans do. And don't tell me, he add...

In the movies a hyperspace jump to a galaxy far away is an everyday affair. In colder reality it takes an expedition from the solar system two millennia to traverse the ten light years to the star Epsilon Eridani. A few centuries into the journey the fleet loses contact with Earth and drifts along in space as the loneliest human community of all time. Rather than fall into despair, however, the colonists thrive and evolve into a unique human c...

To commemorate the 400th anniversary of the death of Spanish writer Miguel de Cervantes, we asked contemporary poets to interpret the themes of Cervantes's classic Don Quixote for Hong Kong and East Asia. The result is a collection of poems by both award-winning and emerging poets from Hong Kong, Singapore, the Philippines and beyond, illustrating how Don Quixote continues to inspire and illuminate across oceans and centuries.

Jennifer Wong, born and brought up in Hong Kong with an Oxford education in English Literature, has been published in various poetry journals locally and overseas. Summer Cicadas, her debut collection straddling Hong Kong and Oxford, is a refreshing, poetic journey of homelands, cultural upbringing, and personal identity. It is a moving account articulating the powers and transitions of youth and love. "Summer Cicadas is an extraordinary poeti...