the view from fanling

I’ve spent 25 of the last 42 winters in Hong Kong, and I’ve never known it to have been as cold as it’s been this weekend. And it’s set to...

The names of animals are some of the first words that young children learn, even if, in English, this is often in a debased form. Few things...

There may not be a consensus as to how many categories of taste a human being can differentiate—I understand that a new category was defined...

There are no pictures of stained walls, ‘oil paintings’ or any other familiar motifs in my latest collection of abstract images. Instead, I’...