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Melissa Tedone, assistant professor of library and archives conservation at the University of Delaware, in the United States, holds a copy of Marmion, a Victorian-era book with a vibrant green, arsenic-based binding. Photo: Getty Images
Books and literature

Poison books: Hong Kong joins the search for Victorian-era arsenic-laced tomes

Victorian-era books may contain arsenic in their bindings. One Hong Kong University book conservator went on the hunt for such toxic volumes.

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Lyricist, playwright
and director Jia Ding. Photo: courtesy Opera Hong Kong

Director Jia Ding on reimagining Georges Bizet’s Carmen as a Hong Kong story

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