Five books Hong Kong museum curator couldn’t live without: Tina Pang’s must-reads for a desert island
Top picks for the former curator of the Hong Kong University Museum include a story of fraternal twins in India, a personal account of the first world war, and a biography of a British aristocrat and sinologist in Peking

Since 2014, she has been curator of Hong Kong visual culture at M+, the future museum of visual culture under construction in the West Kowloon Cultural District.
Here are the five books she would take to a desert island, in her own words.

The God of Small Things
by Arundhati Roy, 1997
I read this soon after I moved to Hong Kong in 1999. It’s an amazing book for anyone who loves language. It’s the story of fraternal twins in India and opens with the death of their cousin, who has come to visit from Britain. Thus begins the mystery – what happened to her? The story unfolds from there and explores how the twins make sense of the people and the world around them.
