Mani Rao’s poetry has featured in anthologies by Penguin, WW Norton and Bloodaxe, and has been translated into French, Italian, German, Korean, Chinese and Arabic. She lives between India, Hong Kong and the USA. Ghostmasters is her eighth book, and collects poems published in: Zoland Poetry, XCP, Washington Square, Wasafiri, Tinfish, Softblow, Indian Literature, Almost Island, 91st...

"This is impersonal poetry. Nothing here is about me." Using the established poetic forms of the villanelle and the sonnet, "Snowblind from my Protective Colouring" gives us dialogues from many characters, some imagined some real, as they confront and express their lives and relationships. From the un-named She and He of 'Everything in Life is Contagious' who address with romantic imagination or...

Let us have a fair hearing at last for the Twelfth Fairy who has so long been unjustly libelled with sending the Sleeping Beauty to oblivion on her sixteenth birthday. The Lady Melicia has never denied that she played a part in this unhappy affair but, in her defence, has a question for her accusers: Do you really believe in fairies?

The retelling of a classic fairy tale is set to a...

In 2006, local legend Mrs Elsie Tu was asked by Ming Pao newspaper to write essays on interesting subjects so that local young people could use them to practice their English. These essays and articles, which became a regular Monday feature column in Ming Pao, have been republished here for use by Hong Kong secondary school students, either in the classroom or just as extra reading to hear...

the moon looks down at its reflection in the water below: surrounded by cliffs, and framed in points of light. moments of realisation are connected through sea and sky. miss moon's class is a dialogue with a constantly shifting Other, moving through cornwall, wales, hong kong and australia but always located in myth and in memory. viki holmes was born in st. austell, cornwall, in 1975 and...

Join Ling Ling and her panda friend Bao Bao as they dream of the fantastic things Ling Ling will be when she grows up.

The first comprehensive study in Asia examining the opportunities for governments, businesses, NGOs and individuals to improve energy efficiency in the building sector. This wide-ranging work shows both market-based solutions and promising policy approaches to achieve the increasingly important goal of dramatically improved building energy efficiency. Asia has an enormous, largely untapped,...

Larry Feign is well-known to every Hongkonger as the creative genius behind the Lily Wong comic strip and books. The eagerly-awaited 'Hongkongitis' is Larry's first new book in several years Hongkongitis is ... an incurable affliction that causes one to secretly love Hong Kong while complaining loudly about it. While everyone else in Hong Kong was out doing real jobs, writer and cartoonist...

Roseanne Thong "captures the sights, the odors, and particularly the ceaseless roar that sets Hong Kong apart from most other Asian cities." —Bill Purves, author of China on the Lam and A Sea of Green FRUIT DREAMS & OTHER ASIAN STORIES is a vivid and compelling debut collection of the various voices that make up Hong Kong, China and nearby communities. Thirteen stories deal with the everyday...

Ever get the feeling that technology is taking over your life and not asking you first? When you've mislaid that important file or can’t connect your new camera, do you just want to hurl your computer out of the window? When your kids/friends/grandparents start talking about blogging, podcasting and RSS feeds do you nod as wisely as you can while wrestling with the urge to throw them out of the...

Jennifer Wong, born and brought up in Hong Kong with an Oxford education in English Literature, has been published in various poetry journals locally and overseas. Poetry... postcards of the heart Summer Cicadas, her debut collection straddling Hong Kong and Oxford, is a refreshing, poetic journey of homelands, cultural upbringing, and personal identity. It is a moving...

Mani Rao is one of East Asia's most admired English language poets. Her early books did not circulate widely outside of Asia. This collection of one hundred selected poems, in a new international edition, bring Rao's work to new audiences worldwide. This volume is drawn from six book: Echolocation (2003), Salt (2001), The Last Beach (2000), Living Shadows (1997), Catapult Season (1992) and...

Sir Gordon Ying Sheung Wu, Chairman of Hopewell Holdings, can be said to personify the driving ambition behind East Asia's rapid economic rise in the latter part of the 20th century and its dramatic collapse in 1997. Today, Wu is one of Asia's best-known entrepreneurs and this book traces the birth of a family dynasty. Beginning with the creation of the famous Hong Kong taxi service by Wu�s...

Bill Purves trained as a seaman, earned his seaman’s papers and made several voyages on a variety of Asian-owned and operated freighters to research this unique inside look at the worldwide shipping industry and the people behind it. From Taiwan to Estonia, and Egypt to Myanmar, amid the roar of engines and the trading floor, in A Sea of Green you will meet the shipowners and brokers, captains...

At last! Stories about people like you. If you're fed up reading about kids playing baseball, carving pumpkins or playing in the snow, then crack open this collection of stories filled with football in the city, rickshaws, shopping and tropical swamps: stories about friends, magic, school and growing up. The collection includes stories by: Sam Jam, Tony Lee, Laura Ros, Christine Morgan, Eva...