When Amber Wong Seng-ying was in Primary Five, her mother gave her a Chinese book that changed her life – The Deer and the Cauldron by renowned Hong Kong martial arts novelist Louis Cha Leung-yung.

Many linguists and social commentators have declared that Cantonese is on the verge of extinction, with Mandarin – the dominant Chinese language – gradually subsuming it. This myth stems from top-down ...

Before my Gung Gung (公公 grandfather) died, perhaps knowing his health was in decline, he tried to share some of his wisdom with me. My sister and I sat in his Hong Kong apartment and listened while he ...

Laura Ng had a dual motive for taking Cantonese classes at Stanford. As a PhD student in anthropology, she was researching the history of the Inland Empire Chinatowns. She also wanted to communicate ...