Wasafiri 91: Writing Hong Kong
Issue 91: Autumn 2017
Writing Hong Kong
Issue 91: Autumn 2017
Writing Hong Kong
Fiction by Cindy Lam, Michael Tsang, Dorothy Tse and Denis Wong
Poems by Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Henry W Leung, Nicholas Wong
Interviews with Nicholas Wong and Xu Xi
Articles on Hong Kong Comics: Reading the Local and Writing the City, Writing from the Outside? Post-1997 Expatriate Writing in Hong Kong, Relocalising Hong Kong Screens, and Something Sets Us Looking for a Place: Poetry of Jennifer Wong and Sarah Howe
Art Essay on Street Protest in Hong Kong since the Handover
Reviews of Jason Y Ng's Umbrellas in Bloom: Hong Kong's Occupy Movement Uncovered, John Chee's My Father's Kowloon City, Xu Xi's That Man in Our Lives, Madeleine Thien's Do Not Say We Have Nothing, Diao Dou's Points of Origin, Xiaolu Guo's Once Upon a Time in the East, Rebekah Chan's Afterness: Literature from the New Transnational Asia, Yaya Yao's Flesh, Tongue, Karan Mahajan's Association of Small Bombs, Kerry Young's Show Me a Mountain, Hannah Lowe's Chan, Fiston Mwanza Mujila's Tram 83, Nikesh Shuka's The Good Immigrant, and Hirsh Sawhney's South Haven
Contents
Jeffrey Mather and Florian Stadtler
Editorial
Dorothy Tse
Fiction: Monthly Matters
Grant Hamilton and David Huddart
Writing from the Outside?: Post-1997 Expatriate Writing in Hong Kong
Shirley Lim
Poems: What the Ice Rink Says; Modern Life
Cindy Lam
Fiction: The Invisible Plums
Nicholas Wong
Poems: Dislodged; Human Design – Advice from a Pro-Beijing Lobbyist
Sarah Howe
Interview: Nicholas Wong in conversation with Sarah Howe
Nicholas Wong
Poems: Love Letter from Crises; Proof 3; Re: work
Tammy Lai-Ming Ho
Something Sets Us Looking for a Place: Poetry of Jennifer Wong and Sarah Howe
Michael Tsang
Fiction: Po Suen
David Clarke
Art piece: Street Protest in Hong Kong since the Handover
Henry Wei Leung
Poems: Dear Exile; Umbrella Revolving in Four Parts
Vivian Lee
Relocalising Hong Kong Screens
Florian Stadtler
Interview: Xu Xi in conversation with Florian Stadtler
Denis Wong
Fiction: New Territories
Jeffrey Mather
Hong Kong Comics: Reading the Local and Writing the City
Reviews
Florian Stadtler
Review Essay
John Chee My Father’s Kowloon City
David Clark and Xu Xi Interruptions
Jason Y Ng Umbrellas in Bloom: Hong Kong’s Occupy Movement Uncovered
Fiona Doloughan
Xiaolu Guo Once Upon a Time in the East
Joanne Leow Madeleine Thien Do Not Say We Have Nothing
Diao Dou Points of Origin
Rebecca L Foster
Rebekah Chan, ed Afterness: Literature from the New Transnational Asia
Ziwei Zhao
Yaya Yao Flesh, Tongue
Nicolas Wong Crevasse
Nauman Khalid
Kerry Young Show Me A Mountain
Hannah Lowe Chan
Harald Leusmann
Fiston Mwanza Mujila Tram 83
Alice Troy-Donovan
Nikesh Shukla, ed The Good Immigrant
Hirsh Sawhney South Haven
Emma Bird
Karan Mahajan The Association of Small Bombs
Aditya Mani Jha
Karthika Nair Until the Lions
Mukta Sambrani Broomrider’s Book of the Dead
Cóilín Parsons
Jeanne-Marie Jackson South African Literature’s Russian Soul: Narrative Forms of Global Isolation
Stéphane Robolin Grounds of Engagement: Apartheid-Era African American and South African Writing
Julian Whacker
Yaa Gyasi Homegoing
Yewande Omotoso The Woman Next Door
Fathima M
Mukoma wa Ngugi Mrs Shaw: A Novel
Tahmima Anam The Bones of Grace
Among the Contributors