2022
“Hong Kong Fringe Club mounts what could be its farewell show, a retrospective of art exhibitions form the past four decades.” South China Morning Post. June 23, 2022.
2020
“Horror, madness, escape: a Chinese-Australian’s memoir of living through Mao’s great family and Red Guard terror.” Book review of One Bright Moon by Andrew Kwong. South China Morning Post. June 23, 2020
2019
“Jung Chang’s New Book on Soong Sisters as Long Overdue Account of Three Remarkable Chinese Women.” Book review of “Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister: Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China” by Jung Chang. South China Morning Post. Oct 10, 2019
“Poetry, Drama and Tragedy.” Book review of “A Life in a Sea of Red” by Liu Heung Shing. South China Morning Post. June 21, 2019
“Memoir Reveals how to Live, and Die, with Dignity.” Book review of “Unwinding of the Miracle” by Julie Yip-Williams. South China Morning Post. Feb 21, 2019
“Unravelling Taiwan.” Book review of “Formosa Moon” by Joshua Samuel Brown and Stephanie Huffman. Cha: An Asian Literary Journal. Jan 2019.
2018
“14 Short Stories Delve into Ghosts and Spirits Lurking in Ultra-Modern City”. Book review of “Hong Kong Noir.” South China Morning Post. Dec 22. 2018
“Rich-poor Gap in Hong Kong the Theme of New Short Story Collection” Book review of “Hong Kong Highs and Lows.” By various authors of the Hong Kong Writers Circle. Edited by Chris Maden, with Lilla Csorgo and Dominic Sargent. South China Morning Post. Nov 19, 2018
Book Review of “Hungry Ghosts”: Anthony Bourdain’s Graphic-Novel Horror Story is Fitting Tribute to a Restless Soul. By Anthony Bourdain, with Joel Rose. South China Morning Post. Oct 26, 2018
“FCC Adopts Charity That Helps Asylum-seekers Get Their Children into Kindergarten”. The Correspondent, FCCHK. Oct-Dec 2018
Book Review of “Betraying Big Brother” by Leta Hong Fincher. South China Morning Post. Sept 9, 2018.
Book Review of “Convenience Store Woman,” Sayaka Murata’s first novel in English. South China Morning Post. July 6, 2018.
Book Review of “Everything Here is Beautiful”, Mira T. Lee’s debut novel. South China Morning Post. Feb. 28, 2018.
2017
Book Review of “Global Cities: Urban Environments in Los Angeles, Hong Kong, and China” by Robert Gottlieb and Simon Ng. Asian Cha. Dec. 2017
Book Review of “Asia’s Reckoning: The Struggle for Global Dominance” by Richard McGregor, a modern history of the complex links between China, Japan and America. South China Morning Post. Sept. 6, 2017.
Book Review of “Hong Kong 20/20: Reflections on a Borrowed Place.” An anthology of local writing, including essays, short stories, cartoons and poems. South China Morning Post. July 19, 2017
Book Review of “City of Protest: A Recent History of Dissent in Hong Kong” by Antony Dapiran. South China Morning Post. June 29, 2017
Book Review of “Yesterday”, Felicia Yap’s debut novel. South China Morning Post. June 26, 2017
Book Review of “The Leavers,” Lisa Ko’s debut novel. It’s one of the very few books I’ve given 5 stars. South China Morning Post. June 7, 2017
Interview with Kevin Kwan, author of the “Rich Crazy Asians” trilogy. South China Morning Post. May 31, 2017
Book Review of “The Dancing Girl & The Turtle,” Karen Kao’s debut novel. South China Morning Post. May 12, 2017
Book Review of “Liberationists: A Story,” Xun Yuezang’s debut novel. South China Morning Post. March 9, 2017
Book Review of “Hong Kong Cantopop: A Concise History” by Yiu-Wai Chu. South China Morning Post. Feb. 28, 2017
2016
Book Review of “A Daughter’s Deadly Deception:” A Murder in Toronto and the Dark Side of the Asian Immigrant Dream. South China Morning Post. Nov. 8, 2016
Book Review of “The Last Ring Home.” A grandson digs out his grandfather’s history as an American taken as a Japanese prisoner or war in W.W.II. Asia Times. Oct. 23, 2016
“Hong Kong’s Occupy Street Art Legacy is Pretty Vacant.” Asia Times. Oct. 15, 2016
“Hong Kong and Singapore Literary Festivals Court Controversy,” Asia Times. Oct. 13, 2016.
“Who’s That Troll? China’s 50-Cent Army.” Voice of America. Oct. 7, 2016
“End of an Era. Cathay Bids Goodbye to the 747.” Asian Aviation Magazine. October, 2016.
Book Review: The Life of Clare Hollingworth, War Correspondent. Sunday Post Magazine. Aug. 26, 2016.
“Hong Kong Becomes Fertile Ground for Online News Start-Ups.” Voice of America. Aug. 4, 2016.
“Hong Kong Struggles to Keep Memory of Tiananmen Square Massacre Alive.” Voice of America. June 4, 2016
2015
My long interview with Rafael Reif, president of M.I.T. The Peak Magazine. Jan, 2015.
Click here to read the full text: MIT.pdf
“Cecil and Gigi Chao: Setting the Stage.” Cover story on a Hong Kong tycoon preparing to hand off to his daughter. The Peak Magazine. Nov, 2014.
“The New Giving Venture.” Private banks and venture capitalism. The Peak Magazine. Oct, 2014.
“One Determined Lady.” An interview of Michelle Ong of the First Initiative Foundation. The Peak Magazine. Oct, 2014. (Not online)
“The Sacred and the Profane.” A profile of Hong Kong artist Tsang Kin-wah. The Peak Magazine. Oct, 2014. (Not online)
Joyce Lau, Writer & Editor 