Postcard for One City One Book Hong Kong 2020, which featured Xi Xi’s My City The Shanghai-born Hong Kong writer Xi Xi (b. 1937) was the 2019 winner of the Newman Prize for Chinese…

Charlotte Chun-lam Yiu was born in Hong Kong when it was still a British colony. A translator and scholar, she completed her undergraduate and master’s degrees in her hometown before beginning he…

Naoise Dolan probably wishes her debut novel, Exciting Times (Ecco, 2020), wasn’t so relevant. Although the book isn’t set during a global pandemic, it does include the many unsavory aspects…

In 2012, at sixteen years old, Joshua Wong and the pro-democracy student group he founded took on the Hong Kong government, mobilized more than one hundred thousand student protesters, and surpri…

Photo courtesy of the author Following decades of British colonial rule to the rapidly tightening grip of mainland China and all the stories told about that chunk of land along the way, Hong Kong has…

News, Reviews, and Interviews The 2016 Man Booker Prize longlist has been announced.  Finalist J. M. Coetzee is a past WLT contributor and was our 2003 Puterbaugh Fellow. PEN America has ann…

Stone faces in Cambodia. Photo by Tammy Ho. In the second installment of “Asian Traumatic Poetics” (to read part 1, click here), I will look at two more poems published in Cha that discuss a…

Chris Beckett, One & Other, by Antony Gormley, Trafalgar Square, London, 2009. In this post and one that will follow next week, I will explore the representation of personal trauma in po…