As affairs between tycoons and starlets in Hong Kong go, this liaison in particular has gone down as the one that can provide the juiciest fodder for gossip
Author: Michelle Ng
I'm Michelle Ng (吳若琦), an Oxford-educated writer and writing coach. Currently a columnist for The Chaser News (追新聞）, I have also written for Apple Daily, Ming Pao, Hong Kong Free Press, Citizen News, and the Wall Street Journal. I specialize in helping Chinese kids and adults write native or near-native English.
金針度人：我如何把英文文筆化為抗爭工具
在紀錄片裏，能看到難得一見的場景：一群經驗老到的裁縫在埋頭縫衣服，他們都是Christian Dior的巴黎高級定制工作室的員工，正忙著準備第二天要展示在T台的衣服
“The jerks, the breaks, and the harshness of prose”
“The jerks, the breaks, and the harshness of prose” To help the audience picture the difficulty of playing the title role in the Peking opera “The Inebriated Consort” (貴妃醉酒), the producers invited an opera apprentice and a little girl to learn the part from Zhang Jing, a venerated artist who could trace her lineage back… Continue reading “The jerks, the breaks, and the harshness of prose”
餘音嘹亮尚飄空—— 理想教育的特質
民國美學大師宗白華（1897-1986）的傳記作者鄒士方，80年代初撰寫宗白華的傳記期間，曾到北京圖書館報庫讀宗抗戰時期的舊作。鄒這樣形容當時看書情景：「時值酷暑，汗流浹背，但我抄錄著宗先生在《星期學燈》上的詩意怏然的『編輯後語』，只感到渾身爽快，如置身於清涼世界，我再一次被宗老那深邃的思想和優美的語言所折服。」
You are what you write: what the English of HKU president Zhang Xiang says about him
“I don't understand how a woman can leave the house without fixing herself up a little,” the founder of the House of Chanel Gabrielle Chanel once quipped. As a Hong Kong woman who writes in English professionally, I can’t help but equate a polished appearance with polished English copies. Just as none of the women… Continue reading You are what you write: what the English of HKU president Zhang Xiang says about him
Dancing to my own tune: pursuing artistic freedom in repressive Hong Kong
“Let me try and make her look like a ballerina,” Youtuber ballet coach Claudia Dean mused as she adjusted her sister’s shoulders, elbows, hands and neck - her sister had no dance training, and the point of the video was to show how ballet looked like when attempted by a layperson. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-38JCRMuAE Dean said she… Continue reading Dancing to my own tune: pursuing artistic freedom in repressive Hong Kong
披著羊皮的狼──一個旗袍控對林鄭月娥的看法
原來我們所知道的「雙妹嚜」花露水包裝和跟它同類的畫，曾充當今天社交媒體的角色
“I know how their wicked little minds operate”
“I know how their wicked little minds operate” When a cat owner posted a photo of her cluttered, floor-to-ceiling bookshelves on Twitter and challenged her followers to find her cat among her books and knick-knacks, an interesting pattern emerged: those who had never lived with cats found it hard to locate the animal, while cat… Continue reading “I know how their wicked little minds operate”
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