On the Bus with Hong Kong’s ‘Long Hair’
Travel Blog • 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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Jim Benning is the editor and co-founder of World Hum.
