The Umbrella Revolution is a grassroots movement of Hong Kong people in protest of increasing control by the Chinese government. It began as a class boycott organized by the Student Federation of Hong Kong and was meant to last as long as the chief executive would assent to demands to talks about Hong ...
As my German school friends and I hurtled up the steps of McCardell Bicentennial Hall, pressing all the elevator buttons to get there fast, I felt like I was clambering through a window back into childhood, when I lined up for hours on end to gaze at spectacles in circuses. Sliding up the staircase ...
As a kid, my favorite food and drink were spaghetti bolognese and Coca-Cola. Yet, after indulging myself in the richness of cakes, Cheese pizzas and meatball spaghettis for five months the dining halls, I’m starting to crave my mother’s meatbone soup. To me, the taste of Chinese food tends to be ...
If girls were noodles, then Hong Kong girls would be rice vermicelli and the girls from Middlebury spaghetti. Why? Rice vermicelli is puny and delicate. It takes on the flavor and color of the sauces it is cooked with. In contrast, spaghetti always slaps angrily at your face when you slurp too hard. ...
The recent assassination attempt on a former editor of a major newspaper has caused international outrage. This event does not exist in isolation. Over the past year, four editors and founders of local media have been assaulted in Hong Kong. The application for a new television station has been debated ...
A developed city should also have a developed culture. Hong Kong does not have one. In In Search of Hong Kong Culture, Lee Oufan, a renowned Chinese academic, described how academics from mainland China marveled upon visiting the Central Library, Hong Kong’s biggest library. And yet all the books ...
The reasons I did it - measure the blood pressure of about 400 patients in 3 8-hour workdays - was because of this. “When are we going to see Aung San Suu Kyi?’ I asked Christine, the daughter of Doctor Aung, the leader of the trip, ‘Have you ever seen Aung San Suu Kyi before?' ‘Yeah,’ ‘Really?! ...
It is politically incorrect to call Myanmar ‘Burma’ because of its colonial connotations, but the new name ‘Myanmar’ is also politically incorrect, as it is the name of only one of its many ethnicities. While the United States supports the former name, as the country under its current name is ...
Some time ago, two of my close friends in a long distance relationship broke up due to an ‘irreconcilable cultural difference,’ despite both of them being brought up in Hong Kong. So where is Hong Kong positioned in the cultural spectrum really? There are many groups of people in Hong Kong. There ...
At home in Hong Kong, I used to be able to just stand up and go anywhere. Right now, any means of travel requires meticulous premeditation. Sometimes I feel like I am stuck on an island, in every sense of the word (believe it or not, Middlebury is built on a slope so as to avoid a flood if there ever ...