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📁 RETURN TO JUST ANOTHER DAY In 1992 the writer Ah Cheng 阿城 kept a Venice Diary. One of its entries consisted of a single line: “Today is June 4, it’s been three years.” These words appear in the book’s Hong Kong…
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📁 RETURN TO JUST ANOTHER DAY On a hot day in July 2022, far from Hong Kong and far from Beijing, I had the privilege of taking part in a tour of the 1863 Bear River Massacre site in southern Idaho…
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📁 RETURN TO JUST ANOTHER DAY field notes It is a crisp summer morning and out at the back of the house, Max and Oliver are building a table for the garden. Last week, we cleared the debris dumped by the…
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📁 RETURN TO JUST ANOTHER DAY June 4th! It’s June 4th. For 34 years Tiananmen has loomed especially large around the anniversary. Much of last week I was writing about the period as I finished my review of Julian Gewirtz’s Never…
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📁 RETURN TO JUST ANOTHER DAY June 4th is Now a Ghost Festival Since 2019, so many places in Hong Kong have become haunted that we are all used to ghosts. They bleed into the fabric of everyday life, and it’s…
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📁 RETURN TO JUST ANOTHER DAY Today is Mother’s Day here, so, a few hours out of the Sisyphus paper-grading: up at 10:30 am, which means six hours of sleep, then a while to get ready, eat a little, go drive…
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📁 RETURN TO JUST ANOTHER DAY I left my apartment at the worst possible time. There was a moment when I almost took the bus, only I glanced at my phone, knew I had time to walk, and did. But I…
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📁 RETURN TO JUST ANOTHER DAY Performance Art in a “City Without Protest” Hongkongers have long visually resisted the domination of the Chinese communist Leviathan and its collaborators in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) regime. From supporting the democracy…
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📁 RETURN TO JUST ANOTHER DAY I got up early, dressed quickly, had some coffee and a bowl of yogurt with blueberries and raspberries, and got in the elevator at 8:30 am, along with the security man who was finishing his…
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📁 RETURN TO JUST ANOTHER DAY Today was a sunny day, so this afternoon I decided to visit a couple of Hong Kong’s urban parks. I headed off from my home in Sheung Wan soon after lunch and boarded a tram…
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