the view from fanling

Imagine that you are driving sedately along a narrow country lane with hedges on each side. It is so narrow that, should you meet someone co...

Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet, Rudyard Kipling, The Ballad of East and West . If I could point to ...

Yesterday was an interesting day. In the morning, I visited the wet market in Luen Wo Hui to buy meat and vegetables. The old lady whose veg...

Unlike the English, who had no qualms about the wholesale importation, where required, of words from a host of other languages, when the Chi...