https://www.scmp.com/rss/326619/feed en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Since its release, video game Stray has been a huge hit. Players follow a cute ginger cat escaping an underground city, inspired by Hong Kong’s Kowloon Walled City, a high-rise squatter camp that once housed 50,000 people demolished in 1994. Did the game look at all like the former glories of historic enclaves? Let’s find out. https://www.scmp.com/culture/former-kowloon-walled-city-resident-reacts-stray/article/3202280?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/culture/former-kowloon-walled-city-resident-reacts-stray/article/3202280?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 06 Dec 2022 10:45:57 +0000 Tap here to launch this special feature https://www.scmp.com/infographics/hong-kong/article/3154851/south-china-morning-post-hong-kong-story-120-years-making?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/infographics/hong-kong/article/3154851/south-china-morning-post-hong-kong-story-120-years-making?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 06 Nov 2021 00:30:17 +0000 Literature has long inspired other art forms. Nineteenth-century painter Sir John Everett Millais famously depicted, on canvas, the tragic death of Shakespearean character Ophelia, in Hamlet, in his eponymous painting. Many of the longest running Broadway shows such as The Phantom of the Opera, Wicked and Les Miserables were all inspired by literary classics. In 2010, a “sculptural” book called Tree of Codes was published, created by bestselling American author Jonathan Safran Foer, who cut up... https://www.scmp.com/native/lifestyle/arts-culture/topics/when-artworks-click/article/3105641/how-artist-has-turned?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/native/lifestyle/arts-culture/topics/when-artworks-click/article/3105641/how-artist-has-turned?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 16 Oct 2020 06:30:13 +0000 The Hong Kong government is rewriting the city’s history, one phrase at a time. Over decades, Hong Kong officials and citizens alike have used the word “handover” to describe the former British colony’s return to Chinese rule in 1997. But the city’s official Protocol Division, which helps to host foreign dignitaries, has erased any mention of a “handover of sovereignty” from its website, the South China Morning Post reported Tuesday. That was just the latest in a series of phrases in the city’s... https://www.scmp.com/politics/how-hong-kong-government-trying-rewrite-citys-history/article/2144354?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/politics/how-hong-kong-government-trying-rewrite-citys-history/article/2144354?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 02 May 2018 10:02:09 +0000