ESSAYS/NEWS
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Hong Kong Has Wild Boars, Feral Cows, and Monkeys That Will Rob You. Nobody Mentions This.
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Whenever I go back to Adams, someone asks about Hong Kong, and I tell them about the monkeys, and they don’t believe me. Every single…
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The Light Show
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On harbours, holiday lights, and what a city means when it says the mission is complete. Witness the spectacular Light Show that lights up the…
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Hong Kong’s Sunday Morning Religion
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There is a church I attend every Sunday in Hong Kong, though it has no steeple and no hymns. The sermon is delivered on bamboo…
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The Five-Hour Circle
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Hong Kong’s greatest luxury isn’t the skyline. It’s what’s reachable within the five-hour circle from the airport. I’m writing this from Bali, which is a…
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The Raised Hand
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In the West, getting a waiter’s attention is a performance of restraint, but in Hong Kong restaurant culture, the dynamics change significantly. You sit. You…
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The Hong Kong Taxi: A Meditation on Rejection
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Reflections on Hong Kong taxi culture. I have been rejected by women. I have been rejected by employers. I have been rejected by graduate schools,…
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The Pantheon of the 72 Bus
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Once in Paris, Ruth and I went to a French restaurant. I told the waiter I was American. He said we can’t all be perfect.…
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Go East, Young Man
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There is a kid in my building. Twenty-six, maybe twenty-seven. American. I know this because I heard him on the phone in the lobby last…
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The Naming of Things
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HONG KONG Or: How a City of Seven Million People Decided That English Was a Buffet and Grammar Was Not Invited According to multiple internet…