Hong Kong Education in Chinese Schools 1929
Today I was browsing through US national archives microfilm reels containing state department records related to British Asia, 1910-29.1 There is always fun and...
Category: Hong Kong
Masks in recent Chinese History
So this is a post that already seems outdated, but I thought I would do it anyway. Masks now mean something quite different than they did before, and I am sure ...
Old folks at home
Man with bird in Nanjing Or actually old folks out on the street. I knew that lots of old Chinese people kept birds, and that taking birds for a walk was a popu...
Jackie Chan and Louis Cha
Everybody knows about ping pong diplomacy, but we seem to have just completed a period of Canto-pop diplomacy, as Jackie Chan has recorded an “official...
Cantonese is Dying! (in L.A.)
A not-too well informed article from the L.A. Times lamenting the decline of lively, slang-filled Cantonese in favor of the polite and dignified Mandarin. Obvio...
Provincialism and democracy
Everyone is talking about the protests in Hong Kong, for good reason. What I find most interesting is the official response. (All links via Simon’s World, the o...