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✍🏼London Correspondent @artnet. Contributor @variety. Formerly @SCMPNews @qz. @sopasia honour. IJP PremiumFellow Berlin. Sold NFT. Hongkonger. Views are mine.
Jan 16, 2022 12 tweets 7 min read
😱TOO stunned to see this in @guardian @ObserverUK Lunar New Year recipes. You most definitely DO NOT pair a LNY dish w joss paper 金銀衣紙 which=hell money you burn for the dead. You DO NOT talk abt death in the New Year! DM me next time if you are unsure theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2… …..☝🏼Urgh just one more thing to add re those Qing/ancient looking coins: my immediate association is this👇🏼You bind the coins to make a sword to kill vampires/zombies. Why? I don’t know. But again, these coins are for the dead too.
Jan 15, 2022 7 tweets 3 min read
Hongkongers at London’s Piccadilly Circus rally against the clampdown of press freedom in Hong Kong amid the recent abrupt closure of pro-democracy/liberal media outlets including Apple Daily, Stand News n Citizen News following the implementation of the National Security Law 1/ Rally began with protest anthem Glory to Hong Kong. Journalists and media practitioners fr HK will be giving speeches. 2/