https://www.scmp.com/rss/15608/feed en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com When we were young, my sister and I were members of Vancouver Chinatown’s traditional dance troupe. Dressed as peacocks and tea pickers, complete with swirling ribbons or painted fans, we were joyful and colourful ornaments in a neighbourhood that, in the early 1980s, was impoverished but proudly vibrant. My family had arrived in Canada, via Hong Kong and Malaysia, in 1974. My parents worked multiple jobs and sent us to school on the edges of Chinatown. Daily Chinese classes failed to dent our... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/2115600/farewell-fairy-palace-are-chinatowns-obsolete?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/2115600/farewell-fairy-palace-are-chinatowns-obsolete?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 16 Oct 2017 12:15:00 +0000 Map of the Invisible World by Tash Aw HarperCollins HK$221 Tash Aw's impressive second novel opens in 1964, Indonesia's Year of Living Dangerously, when President Sukarno was at the height, indeed the cliff edge, of his power. Map of the Invisible World draws us into the psychological landscapes of five complex individuals - a Dutch painter, an American scholar, two orphaned Sumatran boys and a Jakarta student - who struggle to assert themselves in a nation increasingly at war with... https://www.scmp.com/article/687907/map-invisible-world?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/687907/map-invisible-world?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 25 Jul 2009 16:00:00 +0000 Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates Vintage, HK$108 'To write so well,' wrote Stewart O'Nan of Richard Yates, 'and then to be forgotten is a terrifying legacy.' At the time of O'Nan's 1999 essay Yates had been dead for seven years and his nine books were almost all out of print. Now, 47 years after publication, Revolutionary Road, his first novel, has arrived on the best-sellers lists, having made its long journey from the underground to centre stage, thanks not least to the forthcoming... https://www.scmp.com/article/668073/revolutionary-road?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/668073/revolutionary-road?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 24 Jan 2009 16:00:00 +0000 Madwoman on the Bridge by Su Tong Black Swan, HK$128 'History, as I see it,' Su Tong wrote in his novel My Life as An Emperor, 'is music and singing outside of the walls, nightmares of rainy nights. I, as history sees me, am but a frog in a well.' Whether truck drivers, fertility experts, folklorists, book-keepers or geologists, the characters in the short stories of Madwoman on the Bridge are simultaneously trapped within the well and hollering outside its walls. They exist in the tumult... https://www.scmp.com/article/653458/madwoman-bridge?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/653458/madwoman-bridge?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 20 Sep 2008 16:00:00 +0000