Reflections by Wee Kek Koon

Why do Hongkongers applaud Westerners speaking Cantonese?

Wee Kek Koon doesn't understand why a few words in broken Chinese can elicit fawning adulation

Wee Kek Koon

Published: 6:00am, 30 Apr, 2016

Updated: 1:28pm, 17 Jun, 2016

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Having lived his whole life in the modern cities of Singapore and Hong Kong, Wee Kek Koon has an inexplicable fascination with the past. He is constantly amazed by how much he can mine from China's history for his weekly column in Post Magazine, which he has written since 2005.