“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
“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
Perhaps it’s because Fala Chen (陳法拉) has proved herself to be remarkably adept at reinventing herself - when I read her recent furor-causing Instagram post, I was surprised to discover that her drive for self-improvement didn’t extend to her writing skills. In response to President Trump’s move to christen the coronavirus as “Chinese Virus,” Chen wrote:… Continue reading The Makeover 陈法拉 Still Needs
Come Write Like Michelle 