My column last Friday on Hong Kong’s appalling English standards sparked quite a debate on our website and on social media, reflecting how strongly people in this city feel about the issue. Having shunned Facebook and Twitter all these years, I found myself receiving an education on the significance of the thousands of “likes” the article received.

Marx long ago demonstrated that the uncle is superior to the nephew, Napoleon I grander than Napoleon III. If Paul de Man’s story today appears tragic, it is still farcical compared with that…

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My column last Friday on Hong Kong’s appalling English standards sparked quite a debate on our website and on social media, reflecting how strongly people in this city feel about the issue. Having shunned Facebook and Twitter all these years, I found myself receiving an education on the significance of the thousands of “likes” the article received.

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From The Anti-Oedipus Papers, a set of notes and journal entries by Félix Guattari. When Guattari, born on this day in 1930, cowrote Anti-Oedipus (1972) with Gilles Deleuze, readers and scholars were baffled by their process; Guattari’s extensive diarizing pulls back the curtain on their collaboration. 10/06/1972 I’m strapped to this journal. Grunt. Heave. Impression […]

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Artists in Japan once dedicated themselves with an ethnographic intensity to the study of the bizarre Western newcomers streaming into their city.

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The deeper you go into reading indigenous literature the greater your understanding of the human condition. Such is the case with Indigenous Writers of Taiwan: An Anthology of Stories, Essays and Poems. In these contemporary and compelling pieces we see beyond skin color, religion, and geographic location by placing Taiwan at the center of […]

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| Author: Wai-Chee Dimock | Publisher: University of Chicago Press | Publication Date: Oct 20, 2020 | Number of Pages: 224 pages | Language: English | Binding: Paperback | ISBN-10: 022647710X | ISBN-13: 9780226477107

Artists in Japan once dedicated themselves with an ethnographic intensity to the study of the bizarre Western newcomers streaming into their city.

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