Category Archives: communism

Cover Story About Cantonese

Posted on May 14, 2013 by cecilie

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Experimenting With Camera

Posted on December 25, 2012 by cecilie

We must have stayed in the wrong part of town in that Foshan, for surely there are more interesting and less sterile parts of it than the area where our hotel, the City Inn, was. And less windy, eight-laned and … Continue reading →

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Friendly Fire From Former Friends

Posted on December 19, 2012 by cecilie

Like so many others of my age group, class and education level, I used to be a diehard screaming radical lefty, but in a nice way. I had a picture of Mao on my wall and thought it was really … Continue reading →

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Election, schmelection…

Posted on September 4, 2012 by cecilie

The last couple of weeks I have, or rather my post box has been drowning in advertisements from people of whom I have never heard, asking me to vote for them. They all look curiously the same; middle-aged geezers with … Continue reading →

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Down With Simplified Characters

Posted on July 28, 2012 by cecilie

The simplified characters menace is growing. Businesses all over Hong Kong are falling over themselves to accommodate mainlanders only, showing in a not very subtle manner that they’re not interested in local customers: by using only simplified, ‘crippled’ characters. Only … Continue reading →

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Before and After Breivik, Part 1

Posted on April 28, 2012 by cecilie

I’m so, so glad I don’t live in Norway anymore so I don’t have to see the smirking loser Breivik’s face splashed across the front page of every newspaper day in and day out. The trial continues apace, with Breivik … Continue reading →

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…And It’s Back!

Posted on February 29, 2012 by cecilie

Thanks to Eleanor Levett the mad professor is back on the screen is all his mouth-frothing glory! Hong Kong people are thieves and dogs! We should all speak mandarin and shut up! Yes, this interview (or should I say “interview” … Continue reading →

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Flogging That Tome

Posted on February 27, 2012 by cecilie

Hoi hoi, everybody everywhere, who has arms! Did you know that I have just published my second book, Don’t Joke on the Stairs, on Blacksmith Book publishing house. It is about how much fun and laughter, surrealism and weirdness you … Continue reading →

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“Sensitivity Towards Hong Kong”

Posted on February 24, 2012 by cecilie

I can’t stop thinking about how a university professor at prestigious Peking University last month called all Hong Kong people “thieves”, “dogs” and “sub-humans”. It’s such a pity and indicative of how we live in crazy times that YouTube chose … Continue reading →

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EPD: Bringing Central To An Island Near You!

Posted on January 31, 2012 by cecilie

Sleepy backwater Pui O at 9 this morning. I was just walking around Ham Tin dropping leaflets about the latest madcap scheme of the Hong Kong government into people’s letterboxes when this vista jumped up and knocked me on the … Continue reading →

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