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May’s Monthly Memo | March
I thought of walking round and round a spaceUtterly empty, utterly a sourceWhere the decked chestnut tree had lost its…
Concerning Coronavirus
In 1997, the year that I was born, the H5N1 virus in humans was first reported in Hong Kong. Almost…
May’s Monthly Memo | February
“These kind of soy sauces are passed down for generations. They are heirlooms. If you look into yourself, you see…
Happy translation news!
I’ve been sitting on this news for a while, and am happy to finally announce that I’ve been awarded funding…
What one Major Swiftie Thought of Miss Americana
Like most Swifties with Netflix access, I watched the long-awaited Miss Americana yesterday. Sipping from my Taylor Swift mug, I…
May’s Monthly Memo | January
Happy end-of-January, and welcome to a new tradition that I am launching—May’s monthly memos! Since the new decade began, I’ve…
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Originally posted on HONG KONG REVIEW OF BOOKS 香港書評:
May Huang reviews a celebrated debut collection of poetry by the Hong Kong writer Mary Jean…
On Translating Chung Kwok-keung and the Language of Hong Kong Protests
An essay that I wrote for the Asymptote blog went viral on Twitter yesterday, gaining over 1.4K retweets and 1.5k…
The Dark Side of the Force: Star Wars, Junk, Capitalism (and Hope)
WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD Blogging about Star Wars is somewhat of a tradition of mine; my previous blog was called “may-theforcebewithyou,”…