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How mahjong keeps finding new tables – one tile at a time

The next generation of mahjong players around the world is preserving and reinventing a Hong Kong tradition.


How Taishan learned to absorb the world

Guangdong’s ‘hometown of overseas Chinese’ is where architecture and cuisine created by returning émigrés reveal how culture flows both ways.


The origami apartment: how washi paper and precision design reshaped a Tsim Sha Tsui flat

This luminous, Japanese-inspired bolt-hole in Tsim Sha Tsui is a far cry from its gloomy, fragmented beginnings.


In pictures: Hong Kong’s Chinese New Year obsession with good fortune

To celebrate the Year of the Horse, we take a look back at how Hong Kong invited good luck through traditional customs from the 1970s to the 2000s.


Author Hu Anyan on work, writing and overcoming  an inferiority complex

The author of I Deliver Parcels in Beijing, a viral account of China’s gig economy, will appear at the Hong Kong International Literary Festival in March.


Not Bali: the Indonesian island learning to welcome strangers while sharing the benefits

Sleepy Sumba provides an ideal quiet break during the Year of the Horse. Just don’t mention Bali.


The latest PostMag stories, including cultural deep-dives and curated recommendations.
 


Painted tiles, loud tables, new faces: shaping mahjong’s next chapter

The next generation of mahjong players around the world is preserving and reinventing a Hong Kong tradition.

The Chinese city where waffles, watchtowers and world history meet

This Hong Kong home sleeps six – and still feels serene

In pictures: Hong Kong’s Lunar New Year obsession with good fortune

He thought his life was a failure. Then he wrote it down.

Sumba – where horses, black magic and beaches shape island life

This week in PostMag: Lunar New Year and the meaning of home

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