Frederieke van Doorn, the founder and CEO of Hong Kong-based women’s tailoring brand Frey, explains how Eckhart Tolle’s The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment changed her life.
In 1992, eight years after his first visit, China’s leader Deng Xiaoping returned to the rapidly growing Shenzhen special economic zone whose transformation he had orchestrated.
One lost his job, and the will to live; another, alone in an employer’s house, fell into depression. These and other stories of working class Hongkongers in the Covid-19 pandemic are told in a new book.
Leonard Cohen and Philip Glass’ haunting 2007 stage production of Cohen’s Book of Longing is being staged in Hong Kong. Director Mo Lai Yan-chi talks of her fascination with Cohen’s life and work.
Hong Kong is hosting Germany-based Christian charity GBA Ships’ floating library. With over 2,000 books, it aims to promote literacy and ‘empower people with knowledge’.
Austrian artist Andreas Joska-Sutanto has been cutting up Hitler’s Mein Kampf letter by letter for the past eight years and recycling them to make a cookbook, with recipes for pizza, tiramisu and other dishes.
Memories of three generations of women from Communist China, Hong Kong and California and the traumas they carried with them are at the heart of Feeding Ghosts, Tessa Hulls’ debut graphic novel.
Steve McCurry, the award-winning photographer behind ‘Afghan Girl’, talks about celebrating selfless dedication beyond religion in his new book, Devotion, and blending into sacred situations.
A new book published by Hong Kong’s Blacksmith Books features images of Chongqing shot by war correspondent Melville Jacoby that paint a picture of life in China’s temporary capital on the Yangtze.
Tired of the same old tourist guides to Hong Kong? The Hong Kong Design Centre has produced Design Citywalk HK, a guide to the city’s cultural offerings featuring places well known – and unexpected.
Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn’s 2009 book Half the Sky opened the eyes of Natalie Chow, co-founder of Hong Kong-based sustainable and ethical shoe brand Kibo, to human trafficking and slavery.
A new book, The Challenge of Choice … How to Make a ‘Good’ Decision When It REALLY Matters! by Richard Fast, teaches people basic steps to decision making and examines the inner workings of the human mind.
A cookbook by Swedish chef Fredrik Berselius doubles as an instruction manual for trainee surgeons but can be equally enjoyed by home chefs looking to sharpen their knife skills.
Fresh from her talk at the Hong Kong International Literary Festival, newly minted author Sonia Leung tells Kate Whitehead about life in a Diamond Hill slum, a devastating rape and how she finally followed her dream.
Lucy Lord MBE, a decorated obstetrician who is also the founder and executive chair of mental health charity Mind HK, reveals the Jane Austen book that she has read over and over again for 50 years.
If the themes in Dune, about a resource war, climate change and a dying planet, sound familiar, that is because they should – Frank Herbert intended his novel to be a warning, not just a story.
David McAllister, former principal dancer with The Australian Ballet, and its longest serving artistic director, helps people peek behind the curtain with his new book, ‘Ballet Confidential’.
An excerpt from Searching for Billie sheds light on the life of a World War II internee at Hong Kong’s Stanley camp – the author’s mother – in the chaotic days following the Japanese surrender.
Recent months have seen well-known independent bookstores close in Hong Kong after they were suspected of breaking various laws, but novel business models are seeing new ones emerge.
Flora Yu, executive director of the Hong Kong Arts Festival, explains how the classic Chinese novel Dream of the Red Chamber, one of the world’s great works of literature, changed her life.
Malaysian-born Vanessa Chan talks to the Post about her debut novel The Storm We Made, set in British Malaya, and why she would rewrite a character for Michelle Yeoh if there is a screen adaptation.