Monthly Archives: June 2009

Invisible

By sh | Published: June 30, 2009
INVISIBLE by Stephanie Han This is how to become invisible in Hong Kong. Ideally you should resemble a Han Chinese, which is to be fair of face with dark hair and flat high cheekbones. You should be attractive, but not so much that you gain attention in any unusual way, but attractive enough to pass [...]
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The Ladies of Sheung Wan

By sh | Published: June 30, 2009
THE LADIES OF SHEUNG WAN by Stephanie Han She couldn’t take another step. I’ll just stop for a moment, Yuk Ki said to herself. Just sit, right here. She didn’t. She knew what would happen if she sat down on the steps by the exit of the neon lit café in Sheung Wan; it wasn’t [...]
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Book Review

By sh | Published: June 29, 2009
Feng Chi-shun's "Diamond Hill: Memories of growing up in a Hong Kong squatter village" (Blacksmith Books; 195 pages) is an excellent and fast read for those who want an honest depiction of life for a majority of Hong Kong denizens in the 1950s-1960s.
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Book Club Sample Post

By sh | Published: June 27, 2009
Sample Post
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