Destination: Hong Kong
On the Bus with Hong Kong’s ‘Long Hair’
by Jim Benning | 09.15.04 | 11:26 PM ET
Journalist and travel writer Daisann McLane is filing dispatches from Hong Kong this week for Slate. The first article, which appeared yesterday, focuses on Sunday’s legislative council elections and “Long Hair,” a Che-T-shirt-wearing Marxist activist and surprise winner. McLane jumped on his press bus Monday, as soon as she got the invitation. “I used to be a staff writer for Rolling Stone, so I know the first rule of superstar journalism: If you’re invited on the tour bus, you go,” she writes. Today’s dispatch focuses on Hong Kong cuisine. McLane is at work on a memoir about learning Cantonese. If it’s half as engaging as the New York Times story she wrote a year ago about studying the language, it’s sure to be a good read. She was featured in a 2002 World Hum interview.
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Yahoo! BuzzLooking for Some Writing That Evokes a Sense of Place? Pick up a Good Whodunit.
by Michael Yessis | 06.11.03 | 12:16 AM ET
So says Reggie Nadelson in a vivid essay in the June issue of Travel + Leisure. The author of “Red Hot Blues” and “Hot Poppies” examines the importance of place in crime novels and recounts a few events from her own travels that led to specific scenes in her books, including a trip to Hong Kong that influenced the latter book.
Judging Hong Kong by its Cover
by Jim Benning | 03.27.02 | 7:28 PM ET
If you can’t judge a book by its cover, can you at least judge a city by its cover? Hong Kong tourism officials hope potential visitors won’t. That’s because Lonely Planet’s latest guide to the city features not enticing junks and colored lights on its cover but the Bank of China skyscraper enshrouded in what looks like smog—not exactly an inviting image. Lonely Planet apparently isn’t talking, but CNN.com offers a report on the matter, along with a photo of the cover in question. According to the article, a local lawmaker recently lamented to a wire service, “Travel guides usually show pictures with blue sky, white clouds, clear water and fine sand.” Yeah! Where’s Hong Kong beach? Where are the curling waves? The girls? Now there’s a cover!
The Filipina Sisterhood
by Michael Yessis | 01.11.02 | 2:32 AM ET
The Economist examines the lives of Filipina amahs, the “domestic helpers” who often live in virtual slavery to Hong Kong’s elite. “[T]hose who should be Hong Kong’s most miserable are, by all appearances, its happiest. How?”
Dietary Aid Mission
by Maura Weber | 06.11.01 | 1:06 AM ET
Photo illustration by Jim Benning. A boy in Hong Kong missed his grape jelly. Maura Weber flew halfway around the globe to bring it to him.
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