https://www.scmp.com/rss/500384/feed So Mei Chi is a journalist and writer who takes a special interest in social issues and family dynamics. She is also the author of Strangers at Home, which explores the complicated layers of foreign domestic worker issues in Hong Kong. Writing children’s books is her new endeavour. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com At a bookstore reading of my new illustrated book, I began by asking the children present: “Who among you has your own little desk? Who has your own little bookshelf? Who sleeps in your own bed?” Each question summoned a flutter of little hands, which gave a hint of the living standards of the middle-class families who would bring their children to bookstores during the holidays. Then I asked: “If there’s a kid who lives in a little box with his mum and dad, and each person’s share of the space... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/3003376/kids-subdivided-flats-small-can-be-both-wonderful-and?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/3003376/kids-subdivided-flats-small-can-be-both-wonderful-and?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 29 Mar 2019 06:47:30 +0000