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This is the first time the Lam family is publishing a full-length manual since the Hung Kuen’s famed Tit Sin Kuen manual published under Chu Yu Zai. This is also the first time a manual documenting Master Lam Cho’s version of Gung Gee Fok Fu Kuen is published with full annotations by his son, the renowned Hung Gar master, Lam Chun Fai Sifu.
Hung Kuen without...
Catergories: Interviews
Alison Wong is a poet and novelist of New Zealand Chinese ancestry. Her first novel, As the Earth Turns Silver, won the 2010 New Zealand Post Book Award for Fiction. She was joined by RTHK Reenita Malhotra Hora to discuss her book's themes love, racial tension and prejudice on 6th October,11am-12nn at the Kee Club.
***We apologise for the poor recording...
Catergories: News
Chinese author Mian Mian, who rose to fame with tales of sex, drugs and alcohol in the underworld, will sue Internet giant Google this week for copyright infringement, her lawyer said.
Sun Jingwei said the case - the first civil lawsuit against Google in China over the scanning of books into its controversial web library - would open at a Beijing court on...
Catergories: Interviews
Blair Reeve, a New Zealander based in Hong Kong, he has been writing and performing a rhythmic and comical style of performance poetry. His first children's book is Hogart The Hedgehog Turns Nink. He also teaches creative writing to students at Chinese University and runs Anapest Press, his self-publishing business.
Blair Reeve joins us to talk about his writing...
Catergories: Book
On 25 December 1941, the day of Hong Kong’s surrender to the Japanese, Admiral Chan Chak – the Chinese government’s chief agent in Hong Kong – and more than 60 Chinese, British and Danish intelligence, naval and marine personnel made a dramatic escape from the invading army. They travelled on five small motor torpedo boats – all that remained of the Royal...
Catergories: Interviews
Novelist and award-winning film-maker, Guo Xiaolu has found considerable success in both genres. A controversial cultural figure with a unique vantage point, she has published seven works of poignant and witty novels, including A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers. Her forthcoming novel, I am China, was excerpted for Granta’s Best of Young British...
Catergories: Interviews
Author Peter Craggs speaks to Phil Whelan about his book, "When Harry Met Vicky—A Fatal Attraction Growing Up with My Parents". It's a fascinating memoir of his father, a well-known Police inspector in the then Royal HK Police Force, who starts a new life in the colonial days of Hong Kong and meets, and falls in love with a mainland Chinese dancing girl...Peter's...
Catergories: Interviews
Sarah Passmore is joined by Alethea Gold to talk about a photographic book of children from all over China.
The book "Children of China" was launched in Beijing just before the opening of the Beijing Olympics in 2008 and was treated by the Chinese Government as a gift to their VIPs during the Beijing Olympics.
All funds generated from the book are donated to...
Catergories: Book
A Many-Splendored Thing is a book about that post-war Asia shaken from end to end by stupendous, revolutionary changes. ...A vivid feature is the contrast in her brilliant pictures of Hong Kong and China. In their conduct these people--the Christian missionaries and old-school Chinese refugees from China, the enthusiastic young Chinese Communists and serene,...
Catergories: Interviews
Elsie Sze is the author of three published novels; Hui Gui: a Chinese story, The Heart of the Buddha, and most recently, Ghost Cave: a novel of Sarawak. Following her graduation from the University of Hong Kong, she taught at King’s College in Hong Kong for a year, then left her native home to pursue graduate studies at the University of Toronto and the University...
