Floating seafood restaurants at the Causeway Bay Typhoon Shelter. Floating seafood restaurants at the Causeway Bay Typhoon Shelter.
Floating seafood restaurants at the Causeway Bay Typhoon Shelter.
Wee Kek Koon
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Reflections by Wee Kek Koon

The uncertain origins of Hong Kong’s Tanka people

Originally an indigenous people separate from Han Chinese, the boat-dwelling Tanka long ago lost their language and these days many are thoroughly assimilated into Cantonese culture, writes Wee Kek Koon

Wee Kek Koon
Wee Kek Koon

Updated: 1:28pm, 17 Jun, 2016

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Floating seafood restaurants at the Causeway Bay Typhoon Shelter. Floating seafood restaurants at the Causeway Bay Typhoon Shelter.
Floating seafood restaurants at the Causeway Bay Typhoon Shelter.
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Wee Kek Koon

Wee Kek Koon

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.